My initial project idea has the title: CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF LANDSLIDES ON COMMUNITIES IN KYOKYEZO.
Some of my initial ideas about how I will
engage my learners in this project:
- Me-the teacher, together with my colleagues in the Geography department (fellow teachers) and my students of Senior 5 will visit the Kyokyezo community area in Kabale District which is prone to landslides first.
- We will take pictures using digital cameras or smart phones since phone are allowed to students by our school while outside school in for field work.
- They will explore the area, measure the landslide scars in order to come up with the temporal and spatial dynamics of landslides by the use of a GPS machine and a tape measure. I will guide my students on how to use DNR GPS MINNESOTA, a GIS computer program which is freely provided on the Internet, to generate the Kyokyezo area shape files, together with Arc Map version 1.0.1.
- They will interview the community members to get the first hand information about the causes and effects of landslides. Then they will generate mitigating measures to the problem together with some community members.
- My students will create simple photo grids and also capture small videos from the field and then share them via watsapp, Facebook, or any other social media. ‘If they cannot learn the way we teach them, let us teach them in the way they can learn’.
- The area is prone to landslides and its immediate assumed causes are mostly the reckless human activities.
- My class of Senior 5 will study various causes of landslides and the associated effects and then come up with possible solutions together with the Kyokyezo residents in order to help them out of the landslide problem.
What the project is about:
- In order to understand landslide generating processes by my students, there is a need to characterize factors that underpin landslide hazards in Kabale district.
- This can also provide an understanding and easy approach for the planners to design policies and strategies needed for landslide risk reduction options that can minimize the social, economic and environmental losses and property destruction due to landslide occurrences on communities in the district.
- Our study will produce a landslide vulnerability map and clusters out hotspot areas that are prone to landslide hazards.
- This is expected to give an opportunity to the Planners to come up with a professional cost effective way of zoning areas prone to landslide hazards.
- The recommendations of this study are expected to concentrate on providing control and mitigation measures which are needed for designing and formulation of policies and strategies for proper addressing of landslide hazard reduction in Kyokyezo-Kabale district.
The
selected curriculum objectives include:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to;
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to;
- Understand and describe the concept of landslides correctly.
- Measure, quantify and explain the types of landslides at Kyokyezo.
- Characterize the causes of landslides on the slopes of Kyokyezo ridges.
- Evaluate the damages from landslides to the community.
- Find out the coping mechanisms for the effects of landslides in Kyokyezo area.
The Specific 21st Century skills and
higher-order skills are.
- Students will be given brain teasing critical thinking questions to solve the problems at hand.
- Communicate in order to understand and spread ideas.
- Students will collaborate through working with others
- Students will create high quality work at the end of the project and then present a report.
The study will involve a field tour to the area-South Western Uganda
and it will follow the ethos of the revised ASSURE lesson plan.
and it will follow the ethos of the revised ASSURE lesson plan.
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