Secondary student resources

This page contains resources for students who are interested in finding out about what they can do in an emergency and how they can prepare.

There are also a number of links to websites that can provide further information about meteorology, natural disasters and what different agencies are doing to help Australian’s in emergency situations.

Teenagers in Emergency

Kudos for four Maffra Secondary College students in Melbourne who have developed a booklet that offers specific and easy to understand guidelines about how young people can help out in emergency situations. The project was initiated in response to the students’ own experiences during the 2006-07 bushfires and floods that badly affected the Gippsland region in Victoria.

List of secondary student resources

• Teenagers in Emergency Booklet.pdf (4.73 MB)

Useful websites

• Play games and read about true disaster survivor stories at Disaster Resilience Education for Schools
• Play the  Flood Water Explorer Game
• Find out up-to-date Australian rainfall and river conditions from the Bureau of Meteorology
• Find out more about Australian flooding and read reports on previous floods from Geoscience Australia
• Learn general information about the weather from the Bureau of Meteorology
• Get advice and assistance about recovering from floods.
• Find out what the Red Cross does to assist Australians in an emergency