Connect: Interpret the diagram. What point do you think it is trying to make?

• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/

Big Picture: What were the immediate and long term responses

to the Icelandic volcano?

• Know the different ways that people responded to the Icelandic eruption.

• Categorise the responses into long term and short term.

• Create a roll play to demonstrate how the responses affected different stakeholders.

Defining Key Terms: Short term response: • Short term responses are not always long lasting but they

reduce the impacts at the time of the event. • Consider: How did people respond to the volcano

immediately after it erupted? – E.g. Students stuck abroad were given free accommodation for their

extended stay.

Long term response: • Long term responses are long lasting responses. • Consider: How did people respond to the event to ensure

that the same impacts wouldn’t happen in future? – E.g. Encourage people to take out travel insurance before going

abroad.

Activate: How did people respond to the Icelandic Volcano?

• Task: Analyse the series of sources to decide whether the response was a short term or long term response.

• Write your answer into a table.

Short Term Responses

Long Term Responses

All flights to and from the UK were suspended until further notice.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8685063.stm (flights redirected, people had to

rebook holidays, lack of information, met office produce stats)

News reports

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/europe/2010/

iceland_volcano/default.stm

(scientific monitoring needs to improve)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufv6Ww0Lb_o

(people stuck abroad and had bank wavers)

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8685229.stm

(need to get better at predicting where ash is)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8634147.stm

• (needed to have better engineer teams)

Demonstrate: How do these responses have environmental,

economic and social consequences?

• Task: Review the responses on your table by filling in the identifying whether you think they impact:

• 1. The environment (nature)

• 2. The economy (money, government, businesses)

• 3. Social Implications (people, health, lifestyle)

Short Term Responses

Long Term Responses

Who/ What does this impact effect?

Task: Create your own role play scenario.

• Working in pairs create a roll play showing a long term or a short term response to the volcanic ash.

• Which stakeholder are you going to represent? (tourists, government, businesses etc)

• What will your point of view be?

Homework: GCSE practise Question

• Why are immediate and long term responses to volcanic eruptions important socially, economically and environmentally? (14 marks)

• Use the success criteria to help you.

• You could do your own extra research to support your answer.

• Handed in:….

Success Criteria • 1. I have defined the key terms (long term/ short

term/ response)

• 2. I have given examples of how the responses to the event have had social (people), environmental (nature) and economic (money) impacts.

• 3. I have explained these impacts by giving specific details about the Icelandic eruption.

• 4. I have made an argument about why they are important (consider what the future would be like if people didn’t respond to disasters?)

• 5. I have concluded my answer by suggesting ways that this event could be managed better in future.