Description
This inquiry follows a case study approach using a StoryMap, to investigate the causes and impacts of one of the most common and costly hazards in Australia. It will focus on emergency responders using drones and GIS to eliminate or minimise the risk of natural hazards to people and the environment.
Lesson 2: Impacts of a disaster
Lesson 3: Drones to the rescue
Lesson 4: Using a GIS
Lesson 5: Recovery and Resilience
- Identify and explain key causes that contributed to the 2019 flood event in Townsville
- Observe and describe floods from a temporal and spatial perspective
- Identify and explain social, economic and environmental impacts on people and places
- Use manual and coded flight skills to simulate a real world response using drones
- Explore flood response and recovery using a GIS
- Geography
- Digital Technologies
- Design Technologies