Bushfire Risk

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In this module, students learn that while fire plays an important role in ecosystem health, it can also be a natural hazard that causes damage and harm to people, places and communities.

Students brainstorm the potential impacts of bushfire hazards and identify the impacts of most concern to them. Students then examine bushfire risk as a function of hazard exposure, vulnerability and capacity and develop skills for assessing levels of bushfire risk in their own community. This learning enables students to understand that the impacts of bushfire hazards are not ‘natural’ or inevitable: rather, they are the consequence of human action and decision-making and there is a lot we can do to prevent them.

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	1. Bushfire Hazards and their Impacts (pptx 97.3KB) Students examine the definition of ‘natural hazard’ and discuss whether bushfire is a natural hazard. Students develop a concept map that represents the potential impacts of bushfire hazards on communities and environments. They also consider which hazard impacts are of most concern to ...
	2. Bushfire Prone Areas (pptx 3MB) Students examine how not knowing if you live in a bushfire prone area can make you more vulnerable to the impacts of bushfire hazards. They learn how to use the use the VicPlan to map to identity bushfire prone areas and locate key locations. Students discuss whether everyone in the local community ...
	3. Property Preparation (pptx 588.2KB) Students examine how not preparing your property for bushfire season can make it more vulnerable to bushfire hazard impacts. They watch a video about property preparedness and identify key actions people can take to prepare. Students then participate in a team challenge that involves coming up with ...
	4. Fire Danger Ratings (pptx 4.7MB) Students examine how not knowing how to use the Fire Danger Rating System can make people more vulnerable to bushfire hazard impacts. They watch a video that introduces the how the system works and analyse each level of the fire danger rating scale. Students also learn how to find the fire danger ra ...
	5. Bushfire Warnings (pptx 719.6KB) Students examine how not tuning into bushfire warnings makes people more vulnerable to bushfire hazard impacts. They watch a video about bushfire warnings and analyse the three different warning levels. They also learn how they can access warnings. Students then participate in team challenge that in ...
	6. Bushfire Plans (pptx 1.4MB) Students examine how not having a detailed bushfire plan makes people more vulnerable to the impacts of bushfire hazards. They engage with two different videos to identify what needs to be included in a detailed bushfire plan. Students then participate in a team challenge that involves coming up wit ...