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Severe Weather Preparedness for children and families comic - Part Two
Part Two:Second half of my tornado safety & preparedness for children & families is available below. I expanded on learning from the previous comic strip & included some bi-lingual moments (65+m speak at home in USA). Thank you to America Gavira-Pabon for her translations skills!…
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Severe Weather Preparedness for children and families comic - Part One
Something I have been working on: A comic strip on tornado safety for children and families. We used this as part of a Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant collaboration where we are returning VORTEX-USA research back to the community. Last week with 150 first grade students! Clicking on images will open…
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The Impact of COVID-19 on children report
Save the Children has recently published a global study entitled: "Protect A Generation Report: The impact of COVID-19 on children". It is based on a global survey to understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on children and their families, and to hear directly from children themselves. The…
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Snow, Hail and Graupel: Formation, differences and dangers
I have developed a lesson, resources and webinar for students of all ages who might be away from school currently. This is available on YouTube as well as on the edu4drr.org website! The resources are available for students as well as parents/carers or teachers to print out at home. There are…
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Full Collection on Children and Disasters Now Available
This collection, made possible with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on many aspects of children and disaster. The short, easy-to-read…
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The story of Silly Timmy Disaster Comic - What happened next?
An initial comic strip was developed that could be used either in newspapers or via the Internet to help younger children access DRR messages. 52 episodes of the comic strip were completed and initially distributed on the edu4drr.org website, as well as through social media such as Facebook and…
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Tackling Systemic climate risks - Some possible approaches
This blog post outlines some of the issues of systemic climate risk, possible approaches to dealing with it that aren't necessarily being utilised (around learning that is meaningful and actionable) and is driven from my knowledge and work on disaster risk reduction learning. It's a short blog, but…
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Silly Timmy Disaster Comic in Russian - Неразумный Тимофей!
The original versions of these are almost four years old now, but after some being translated into major European languages that are spoken globally I wanted to be inclusive of other languages. This relies on meeting the right people and for this I relied on my good friend…
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Infographic of research
I wanted to show my PhD research findings in an easily digestible and accessible manner, so I created this infographic:
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Silly Timmy Disaster Comic - Bahasa Malaysian
The original versions of these are almost four years old now, but after some being translated into major European languages that are spoken globally I wanted to be inclusive of other languages. This relies on meeting the right people and for this I relied on my good friend Hayat Ibrahim who…
