People, Get Ready

People, Get Ready is a resource designed to provide practical teaching and learning ideas that:

• enhance student understanding of emergency management
• can be applied across a number of cultural backgrounds and adapted for specific cultural, language and religious contexts, and
• celebrate the diversity of students by incorporating their range of life experiences.

The ideas in People, Get Ready can be used with all students from Year 8-10, but are specifically designed to engage those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This resource provides:

• a comprehensive teaching guide that addresses the teaching and learning considerations when working with students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• lessons: Me and My Community, Take the Communication Mission, Experiences of Emergencies and Families Preparing Together and a suggested learning sequence for these lessons, and
• curriculum links to your State or Territory curriculum framework for each lesson (where these are available).

Please note: Throughout this resource, the use of the words disaster and emergency are used interchangeably.