Guest Lecture - Akshat Shahjade

 In the Going further stage of the inquiry cycle a guest lecture was arranged on disaster management by Akshat Shahjade, a senior student from MYP. After listening to him, they got to know about the role of humans in managing natural disasters and how it can be controlled in a Secure way.

Like for floods- save more soil areas so the soil could absorb the water,

For droughts- don’t make dams.


They used 3-2-1 strategy to reflect on the guest lecture.

Through the guest lecture their knowledge was enhanced on disaster management and he left them all motivated to take some actions either personally or in a group.












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