Information for teachers
What’s the Plan Stan is an initiative which aims to support teachers to develop their students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes to respond to and prepare for an emergency.
Besides this website, the What’s the Plan Stan resource includes:
- A teachers’ guide, including unit plans and activities
- A CD-Rom with activities for students and downloadable worksheets and unit plans for teachers (upgraded in 2007)
- A poster outlining the What’s the Plan Stan resource, and promoting the materials available
- An illustrated storybook containing five stories (added in 2007)
- An audio CD of the stories in the storybook (added in 2007).
The CD-Rom was upgraded in 2007 by adding:
- new photographs, videos and footage of recent and historic disasters
- new footage of school earthquake drills and a simulated earthquake
- a new video and a downloadable list on the survival items page
- links to games and a video on the cool extras page
- an updated map of historical disasters
- downloadable versions of the quizzes in the teachers’ section.
Teachers can download PDF versions of the following resources from the teachers’ guide.
Unit plans and templates
- Junior unit plan and templates (1.40 MB)
- Middle unit plan and templates (3.90 MB)
- Senior unit plan and templates (2.25 MB)
Disaster activities and factsheets
- Disaster activities and fact sheets (664 Kb)
Simulation and practice activities
- Simulation and practice activities (372 Kb)
What's the Plan Stan Stories
- Ana's Earthquake Story and Quiz (17.4 Kb)
- Dan's Tsunami Story and Quiz (16.8 Kb)
- Matt's Volcano Story and Quiz ( 17.3 Kb)
- Beth's Flood Story and Quiz ( 16.8 Kb)
- Frankie's Storm Story and Quiz (15.3 Kb)
- Stan's Non-natural Story and Quiz (60.2 Kb)
Alternatively, you can download the complete teacher’s guide. (3.97 MB)
If you have a CD-burner, ISO CD-burning software, and a broadband connection, you can download the whole CD-Rom for PC here (182.0 MB).