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Information for Teachers

About What’s the Plan Stan
Teachers’ guide
Unit plans, inquiry model and templates
Disaster activities and fact sheets
Simulation and practice activities
What's the Plan Stan stories
What’s the Plan Stan CD-Rom
Kia Takatū

About What’s the Plan Stan

What’s the Plan Stan seeks to improve awareness and understanding of the hazards we face in New Zealand. It also promotes emergency preparedness in primary and intermediate schools by providing teachers and students with the knowledge and skills to act in a safe manner when a disaster occurs. Students’ increased awareness and understanding may also prompt their parents, families and communities to be better prepared.

The 2009 revised edition of What’s the Plan Stan:

  • is aligned to The New Zealand Curriculum
  • incorporates an inquiry approach model
  • includes up-to-date disaster information
  • includes a wider range of practice scenarios
  • reflects current best practice of what to do before, during and after a disaster.

In addition to this website, What’s the Plan Stan includes:

  • a teachers’ guide, including unit plans, inquiry model and activities
  • a CD-Rom with activities for students and downloadable worksheets and unit plans for teachers
  • a poster to promote What’s the Plan Stan
  • an illustrated storybook containing five stories
  • an audio CD of the stories in the storybook.

There is also a version of the resource in Te Reo Māori, Kia Takatū.

Teachers’ guide

Download the complete teachers’ guide (PDF 4.9MB)

Unit plans, inquiry model and templates

Download and use or adapt the following unit plans, inquiry model and templates to suit the needs of your students. The unit plans and templates are provided as both PDFs and Word files that you can cut and paste into your documents.

Disaster activities and fact sheets

The following downloads include activity sheets and homework ideas for different types of disasters that you can use as part of the unit plans or as one-off lessons. The homework ideas may prompt parents/caregivers and families to plan and prepare for disasters, and will ensure that work done in the classroom is discussed and continued at home. Each file also contains a fact sheet and information on what to do before, during and after that type of disaster.

Simulation and practice activities

Download and use or adapt the following simulation and practice activities so that students, school and parents are ready and know what to do in case of a disaster. The downloads include the earthquake simulation and practice activities from the teachers’ guide, as well as additional templates and scenarios that can be undertaken by single classes through to the whole school.

  • Simulation and practice activities from the teachers’ guide
    (PDF 152KB), Word 152KB)
  • Additional templates for the simulation on the teachers’ guide
    (Word 144KB)
  • Additional earthquake simulation
    (Word 52KB)
  • Additional tsunami scenario
    (Word 36KB)
  • Additional volcano scenario
    (Word 44KB)

What's the Plan Stan stories

Each story describes Stan and his friends coping with a different kind of disaster, and is followed by a checklist of what to do before, during and after a disaster. In addition, the Word versions include a quiz. You can also download audio files of the first five stories.

What’s the Plan Stan CD-Rom

If you have a broadband connection, you can download the whole What’s the Plan Stan CD-Rom for PC here (608.0 MB). This ISO image file contains all the data from the What’s the Plan Stan CD-ROM, which can be downloaded and burned to a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc.  You will need a CD burner and CD burning software to do this. The exact steps required to burn an ISO image to CD will vary depending on your software.

Running the CD-Rom:

PC

Mac
  • Insert the CD-Rom.
  • Program will start after a few seconds.
  • Alternatively, open the CD-Rom folder and double-click STAN.
  • Insert the CD-Rom.
  • Open CD STAN on your desktop.
  • Double-click STAN.

Installing the CD-Rom for use over the school network:

PC

Mac
  • Close all other applications.
  • Explore to the CD-Rom, double-click Setup.exe then follow the instructions on screen.
  • Make sure the Start.exe file is visible to the required network users, right-click and select create shortcut, and copy shortcut to the desired location.
  • Open the CD-Rom, double click Setup then follow the instructions on screen.
  • Make sure the Start file is visible to the required network users, control-click make alias, and copy the alias to the desired location.

Kia Takatū

Kia Takatū is an initiative which supports kura and bilingual schools to promote disaster preparedness. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the English What’s the Plan Stan resource. Visit the following pages for more information and resources related to Kia Takatū: