Long term effects of tsunamis and map skills

 This week, the children consolidated their learning about tsunamis. They recapped how tsunamis formed and then they watched a different clip from the Boxing Day tsunami. In groups they identified the long term effects and then they shared these with the rest of the class. They identified, deaths as well as mental health for those left behind, housing issues, health problems such as diseases. Furthermore, coral was destroyed, coastlines shape changed and jobs destroyed. 

After that, they looked at the lessons some countries learned from this natural disaster and the precautions they have put in place to help predict when a tsunami might take place. 

Finally, they used a map and its scale to see how far some of the countries were from the epi-centre and how being further away will reduce the energy of the wave and its destruction.