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Get Ready: Hawkes Bay

The LEARNZ What's the Plan, Stan? 4 virtual field trip begins with Prepare Students which gets your class ready for the field trip. Teachers, look for your section on the left-hand menu of this site called Share and Support.

This field trip experience about Hawkes Bay hazard response is the fourth in a series of 4. 

What's the Plan, Stan? Introduction from LEARNZ on Vimeo.

Location

New Zealand is on the "Pacific Ring of Fire". In our lifetime each of us is likely to experience a major emergency caused by a natural hazard. You might be at home, at school, or on holiday when an emergency strikes so everyone everywhere needs to know what to do.

On this trip during the week of New Zealand ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi, you will be in the Hawke's Bay. Our capital city sits right on a major earthquake fault line. Parts of the Wellington area also have a history of flooding and landslides. Strong winds batter the whole province at times and places near the coast are prone to tsunami. Our islands nation sits across the boundary of two of the world's great tectonic plates so we all can be affected by earthquakes. On this field trip you will also learn more about the risks and impacts of an emergency where you live and what you can do to prepare yourself.

Field Trip Plan - October 2019

Monday 14 October

Travel Day: Join Andrew and the ambassadors as they make their way to Wellington to begin the field trip. During the journey, Andrew takes the chance to photograph and talk about some of the interesting features along the way.

Tuesday 15 October

Potential natural hazards in Hawkes Bay:

Wednesday 16 October

Volunteers and first responders for hazard management:

Thursday 17 October

ShakeOut earthquake drill and tsunami hikoi:

All components in the table below are updated daily during the field trip. They remain on this website and can be used after the date of the live field trip.

Ambassadors

Classes can send an ambassador (small toy) on the field trip with the LEARNZ Field Trip teacher. Daily ambassador updates can be read by all enrolled classes.

Web conferences

Students put questions live to experts who are on location during the field trip. Web conferences can be listened to and watched live via LEARNZ Zoom Room or from a recording linked to in Web conferences. The LEARNZ Zoom Room runs concurrently with each 20-minute formal web conference and will be kept open for a further 20 minutes to allow schools to post further questions informally to be answered live.

Diaries

Andrew the LEARNZ Field Trip Teacher writes a detailed diary for students to read, accompanied by 10 captioned images and panoramas for each day of the field trip - including the travel day on Monday.

Experts and Careers

Students meet each expert involved in this field trip via a short video. Potential career and training paths can also be explored on these pages.

Photo Gallery

All website and field trip photos are available in one easy-to-use location, where students can browse and select to further their interest and learning.

Videos

Short, curriculum-rich videos are made on each day of the field trip and uploaded in the evening for viewing the following day.
  • Also: Follow @andrewpenny01 #learnztrip on Twitter to join in the discussion and get updates, comments and photos straight from the field. Go to Support - Twitter for more information.