provides a simple carbon footprint calculator so your students can see how much carbon they could save by changing their lifestyles. All councils have a policy to encourage safe walking and cycling to their schools. This is the Tower Hamlets site. Search to see your own council's policy. This UK company promotes products that reduce carbon emission including advice on low – carbon emission flights. Developing a DME on the strategies for hazard reduction in earthquake zones (Theme 3) WJEC set task for 2017 Theme Generic task for the The task is linked to the Page in Decision-making Exercise / following enquiry question specification Problem solver from the specification 3 A report analysing how 2.2 How might the effects of 15 successful hazard reduction volcanic eruptions and strategies may be in earthquakes be reduced in earthquake zones, which countries at different levels includes the candidates of development? reasoned and justified decision. Contextualising the task The focus of the 2017 DME task is hazard reduction strategies in earthquake zones. As with all DMEs, candidates must be given the opportunity to demonstrate their decision making skills and should be discouraged from writing a descriptive essay. There is more than one way to go about contextualising the task. Below are two suggestions: 1. To ask candidates to make a yes / no decision based on the evidence presented by three or more stakeholder groups. So ask candidates to decide if the hazard reduction strategies used during a particular earthquake were successful or not, using evidence from different stakeholders. For example: Were the hazard reduction strategies used during the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand successful? 2. To ask candidates to decide which, of three options, would be the best hazard reduction strategy for a certain area. For example: What is the best strategy(ies) for earthquake hazard reduction in Japan?
provides a simple carbon footprint calculator so your students can see how much carbon they could save by changing their lifestyles. All councils have a policy to encourage safe walking and cycling to their schools. This is the Tower Hamlets site. Search to see your own council's policy. This UK company promotes products that reduce carbon emission – including advice on low carbon emission flights. Developing a DME on the strategies for hazard reduction in earthquake zones (Theme 3) WJEC set task for 2017 Theme Generic task for the Decision-making Exercise / Problem solver The task is linked to the following enquiry question from the specification Page in specification 3 A report analysing how successful hazard reduction strategies may be in earthquake zones, which includes the candidates reasoned and justified decision. 2.2 How might the effects of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes be reduced in countries at different levels of development? 15 Contextualising the task The focus of the 2017 DME task is hazard reduction strategies in earthquake zones. As with all DMEs, candidates must be given the opportunity to demonstrate their decision making skills and should be discouraged from writing a descriptive essay. There is more than one way to go about contextualising the task. Below are two suggestions: 1. To ask candidates to make a yes / no decision based on the evidence presented by three or more stakeholder groups. So ask candidates to decide if the hazard reduction strategies used during a particular earthquake were successful or not, using evidence from different stakeholders. For example: Were the hazard reduction strategies used during the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand successful? 2. To ask candidates to decide which, of three options, would be the best hazard reduction strategy for a certain area. For example: What is the best strategy(ies) for earthquake hazard reduction in Japan?
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