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Bushfire education: emergency triple zero

Teacher guide Bushfire education: emergency triple zero

TLF ID M012446

This is a teacher resource containing a lesson plan based on an interactive online narrative, Triple zero kids' challenge - story 8. It provides guidelines for a class discussion about a story of two children who come across a bushfire. The story prompts the user to dial 000 on a simulated mobile phone and poses the types of questions callers to emergency services are asked, providing examples of how best to answer them. The resource includes suggestions for activities and worksheets to reinforce the learning outcomes of the interactive story.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a useful resource for year 1 geography, particularly the content description in Geographical Knowledge and Understanding referring to the constructed, managed and natural environmental features of places, how they are changing and why they need care.
  • The resource can contribute to students attaining those elements of the achievement standard in year 1 geography referring to categorising distinctive environmental features of places.
  • This is a valuable resource for year 1 geography in providing a lesson plan based on an engaging interactive narrative that encourages children to remember to call triple zero in an emergency and also provides an exemplar demonstrating how to respond to typical emergency services questions.
Year level

1

Topics Firefighting Forest fires Human settlements Fire prevention
Learning area
  • Geography

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority\, State Government of
  • Organization: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority\, State Government of
  • URL: http://www.bushfireeducation.vic.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority\, State Government of
  • Organization: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority\, State Government of
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://www.bushfireeducation.vic.edu.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Unknown
Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Image
  • Text
Rights
  • © Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, State Government of Victoria, 2011 (except where otherwise indicated). Material on the Bushfires Education website can be used for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia provided you retain all acknowledgements associated with the material. Material that is owned by other copyright holders, which have associated acknowledgements, can be used in this manner until 1 July 2016.