Question Discuss and Write:

• Have you or anyone that you know ever faced such difficulty?
• Who all helped at such a time? Make a list.

Question Discuss:

• A lot of people from other places came to Jasma’s village. Who were these people? In what ways would they have helped the villagers?
• People in Jasma’s village rebuilt their houses with suggestions from the engineers. Will these houses be safer than before in case there is an earthquake again? Why?
• Think, if there were an earthquake where you live, would your house be in danger? What kind of damage could take place?

Question Write:

Compare your house with that of Jasma. List in your notebook what materials were used in making both the houses.

Question What Will You Do?:

• Have you been told in your school or anywhere else about what to do in case of an earthquake?
• Why do you think one should go under a table during an earthquake?

Question Write:

• According to the TV report, thousands of people were injured and some died in Gujarat. If the buildings had been made in a way that they would not fall in the earthquake, would the damage have been different? How?
• At times like this, when people have lost their homes and all their belongings, what kind of help would they need?
• In such situations whose help would be needed and for what? Write in your notebook as shown here.

Question Discuss:

• Have you ever seen people in your area helping each other? When?

• Why do people live together in a neighbourhood?

• Imagine living in a place where there were no other houses or people around. How would it be? For example, whom would you play with? With whom would you celebrate festivals and special days? Would you be scared?

• People face a lot of difficulties when they lose people from their family, or their houses and belongings. In newspapers of the last one month, look for news related to such disasters – earthquakes, floods, fire, cyclones, etc., in different parts of the world. Collect these news reports and paste them in your notebook.

Question Your News Report:

• Make your own report which mentions the following:

– Cause of the disaster, date and time

– What kind of damage did it cause – to lives, belongings,livelihoods?

– Which people came forward to help? Which government offices or other groups?

If there is no rain, crops can fail and there can be a drought. But food for people can be brought from other places so that there is no famine, which means people don’t have to stay hungry, and they don’t die of hunger.

• Have people in your area ever got affected by famine or drought? Find such reports of different countries from newspapers. Make your own report.

• You may need some help from these in case of an accident or emergency. Find out and write their addresses and phone numbers. Add more names to this list.

Question Difficult Times:

Write a report with the help of the following words:

floods, river water, injured people, food packets, rescue work, camps, dead bodies, dead animals floating in water, houses under water, aerial survey (to see the scene of disaster from a plane), sad people, diseases spread by dirty water, homeless people, trapped people.

Question What we have learnt:

What type of difficulties are faced by people during floods? Look at the picture, what kind of a school have the children come to after the flood? Write down what people had to do to make their life normal again after the flood.