Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

Unit 1: Disaster and Disaster Risk

Lesson 1: The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

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Human Response to Hazards 60 minutes

Purpose
This activity aims to develop your critical thinking and logical reasoning by analyzing
relevant information about pressing disaster-related issues and making competent,
informed, factual, and valid decisions.

Instructions
1. Identify at least three potential hazards that could affect your community.
2. Write your response to mitigate or address the negative consequences of disasters.
3. Use the following guide questions:
a. How would you prevent and control your exposure to this hazard? Justify
your answer.
b. How would you mitigate your community’s vulnerability to this hazard? Justify
your answer.
c. How would you mitigate or lessen your community’s losses from this hazard?
Justify your answer.
4. Use the output template and rubric as your guide to complete the output.

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Output

1. Hazard: ________________________________________________________________________________

a. How would you prevent and control your exposure to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

b. How would you mitigate your community’s vulnerability to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

c. How would you mitigate or lessen your community’s losses from this hazard?

Justify your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Unit 1: Disaster and Disaster Risk
Lesson 1: The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

2. Hazard: ________________________________________________________________________________

a. How would you prevent and control your exposure to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

b. How would you mitigate your community’s vulnerability to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

c. How would you mitigate or lessen your community’s losses from this hazard?

Justify your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Unit 1: Disaster and Disaster Risk
Lesson 1: The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

3. Hazard: ________________________________________________________________________________

a. How would you prevent and control your exposure to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

b. How would you mitigate your community’s vulnerability to this hazard? Justify

your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

c. How would you mitigate or lessen your community’s losses from this hazard?

Justify your answer.

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Suggested Rubric

Performance levels

Criteria 1 2 3 Score
Beginning Average Advanced
proficiency proficiency proficiency

Clarity and The learner The learner The learner

Strength of the presents an presents a vague presents a clear
Proposal incomplete and weak proposal and strong
Statement proposal statement. proposal
statement. statement.

Validity of The argumentation The argumentation The argumentation

Argumentation lacks logical flow, has a flow, but it has a logical flow,
and the conclusion fails to facilitate a and the conclusion
is unsupported by logical connection is strongly
its premises. between the supported by or
conclusion and its necessarily follows
premises. from its premises.

Adequacy of Facts are poorly Facts are well Facts are well
Facts established, and established, and established, and
they provide they provide they provide
inadequate sufficient support adequate support
support for for illustrating the for enriching the
illustrating the learner’s idea. learner’s idea.
learner’s idea.

Citation of Some of the Most of the All references are

References references are references are properly cited.
properly cited. properly cited.

Total possible score 12