Avalanche: Together (Reading, grade 8)
Instructional activity in a Avalanche context. Goal: Community disaster management. Action-focused, without fear.
What will you learn in this game?
Community disaster management. Understands the role of community in disaster management.
How to use it in class?
Reserve 10–15 minutes at the end of the lesson so students can play individually or in pairs, then discuss the results together. Focus: reinforcing the learning outcome "Community disaster management" with real-life examples.
Reading Text
Question 1 / 3On a winter holiday Ali saw a notice on the hotel door: "High avalanche risk." The guide said the upper slopes were closed today. Ali asked: "What is an avalanche?" His father said: "Snow on a mountain can slide down suddenly. That is called an avalanche. If there is a warning, we don't go to the mountain." A friend said "let's go a bit higher." Ali shook his head. "If there is a warning, we stay home or somewhere safe. We don't go to the mountain to play in the snow." Ali wrote this in his mind: Avalanche warning = don't go to the mountain.