THE TURKEY EARTHQUAKE 1999 - Today’s Lesson
In today’s lesson you have to use 3 WEBSITES and answer questions from the WORKSHEET. Answer on the back of your Worksheet.
Here are the WEBSITES:-
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/17/newsid_2534000/2534245.stm
2.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9908/17/turkey.quake.07/
3.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/aug1999/turk-a19.shtml
The Turkish Earthquake 1999
Two devastating earthquakes hit Turkey within the space of less than three months during 1999. The first - with its epicentre at Izmit in Turkey’s heavily populated northwest - struck at 0302 hours local time on 17 August. It left some 17,000 people dead and thousands more homeless. The second struck just 100km away on 12 November, killing hundreds more.
A massive earthquake hit the city of Izmit in 1999. ·
Your task is to find out what happened
· You must put in as many facts and numbers as you can find
· You will need to have a map to show where Turkey and Izmit are
· You need to find some pictures of the damage caused by the earthquake
· You could try to get some eye-witness accounts eg. What the survivors said
These websites are good starting places:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/422773.stm
http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/vgd/resources/ffiles/turkeyearthquake.doc
Or you can search on Google:- http://www.google.co.uk/
PRESENT YOUR WORK AS A SPECIAL REPORT, PRINTED OUT AND MADE INTO A BOOKLET.
TASK: Imagine you are working for the Tourist Information Office in Angeles City, east of Pinatubo.
You have to produce some information for Tourists visiting the region, telling them about the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
You can show this information any way that you want. What could you produce? Be inventive - the following are just some possible ideas - by all means come up with your own!A Powerpoint presentation to be displayed on a plasma screen in the tourist office.A design for an exhibit on the eruption to be displayed in the tourist office (you could sketch out the design but concentrate on what captions you would include to tell the story of the eruption (causes and effects)) An eye-catching information leaflet for tourists to take away (think about the shape / colour / presentation) A story-board for a documentary about the eruption to be shown on a TV in the tourist information office.Use these websites to help you…..
Weblinks: Mount Pinatubo - related links :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pinatubo
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/stratoguide/pinfact.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs113-97/
http://geography.about.com/od/globalproblemsandissues/a/pinatubo.htm
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_autumn2001/eyeon/people.html
Include these things in your work……
1. A map
2. A diagram or drawing
3. A photo
4. One side of writing about WHAT HAPPENED
5 One side of writing about HOW THE AREA RECOVERED