Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to compare and contrast the role governments and private individuals take in prevention of natural disasters.
• Students will be able to explain important geologic and other natural processes contributing to a disaster.
• Students will be able to interpret the probable causes for various disasters using scientific methods/principles and real world data.
• Students will be able to investigate historical disasters to analyze the impact on science, people and governments.
• Students will be able to predict the impact of potential future disasters based on analyses of earlier investigations into actual disasters.
• Students will be able to analyze hazards in the students' own environment in order to better prepare themselves and their community for a future natural disaster.