Resilient Australia Education Resources

Resilient Australia Education Resources
Help students understand natural disasters and build lifelong resilience skills with these comprehensive disaster resilience resources. These free Australian Curriculum-aligned units for Years 5 - 8 develop leadership qualities, social and emotional wellbeing, and practical skills and increase students' fire and flood preparedness.

Building resilience to natural disasters

Australia has experienced increasingly frequent, intense, repeated, and now overlapping shocks such as fires, floods, and drought. Coupled with chronic stresses including economic inequity, reduced levels of services in rural and regional areas, and social exclusion these disasters have conspired to challenge communities across the country. Communities have little or no time to prepare, respond and recover from each of these events before the next arrives.

About the Resources

Students will grow their understanding of what a natural disaster is, how it functions, and what actions they can take to make themselves and their local communities more prepared and more resilient. This leads to better outcomes before, during and after they have been impacted by a natural disaster.

Across a range of subjects, students will explore leadership qualities, social and emotional well-being, technologies to assist with natural disaster recovery, and social actions they can take to increase their fire and flood preparedness.