Teacher guide and workbooks: Moreton Bay disaster preparedness course
The disaster preparedness course is designed as an accessible resource. Structured to build an understanding of the importance of preparing for a disaster, how best to respond during a disaster, and what services or resources may assist a person or family to recover after a disaster.
Workbooks are developed as one-hour lessons, supported by a comprehensive teacher guide.
Course content, required skills, and knowledge align, generally, to Level 1 of the Australian Core Skills Framework.
Who would benefit from this course?
The course is designed to be delivered by teachers and tutors working with a range of students, including those with limited or no English, low levels of literacy and possibly primary school students.
Teacher guide and lesson workbooks
These workbooks are fillable PDF's which can be downloaded and completed on your computer or you can print them.
Lessons 1 and 2 must be completed first in order to set the foundation of understanding.
Lesson 9 - Heatwaves is highly recommended before summer due to the large number of people impacted each year in Queensland and across Australia.
- Teacher guide(PDF, 1MB)
- Lesson 1 - Get ready for disasters(PDF, 3MB)
- Lesson 2 - Respond to disasters(PDF, 3MB)
- Lesson 3 - Get ready for bushfires(PDF, 2MB)
- Lesson 4 - Respond to bushfires(PDF, 2MB)
- Lesson 5 - Get ready for storms(PDF, 2MB)
- Lesson 6 - Respond to storms(PDF, 3MB)
- Lesson 7 - Get ready for floods(PDF, 4MB)
- Lesson 8 - Respond to floods(PDF, 3MB)
- Lesson 9 - Heatwaves(PDF, 3MB)
- Lesson 10 - We are ready for disasters(PDF, 2MB)
- Lesson 10 - Board game(PDF, 966KB)
Information sheets
Once you have completed the course
Council would appreciate your feedback which will inform the effectiveness of these resources at helping people prepare for, respond to and recover from, the impacts of natural disasters within our region.
Complete the participant's course evaluation
Complete the teacher's course evaluation