The Community Resilience as a contexts can be adapted and based on the resilience challenges according to the young person’s school and community, geographic, social or climatic location or need.

The Covid-19 learning journey is one of a series designed to support the learning and teaching of emergency and resilience education. This particular learning journey looks at the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. It provides suggestions for activities to reflect upon the spread and impact of a pandemic flu and nurture the development of community readiness in young people.

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Through the careful planning and embedding of Community Resilience by teachers, developing partnerships and making connections through science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), Learning for Sustainability, Children’s Rights, Developing the Young Workforce or Eco Schools Scotland, young people and their communities will be equipped with the skills, capabilities and attributes to prepare for, respond to and recover from adverse and challenging situations relevant to their local context.

Improvement questions

• How can community resilience be used as a context within the curriculum to make learning relevant and engaging for learners?
• How can community resilience support interdisciplinary learning and learning for sustainability?
• What opportunities exist to include community resilience themes in your STEM, Eco-Schools, children’s rights or developing the young workforce activities?
• What support, opportunities and community partners are available locally to support learning about community resilience?

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PDF file: Experiences and Outcomes linked to Community Resilience as a context for learning: Covid-19 (892 KB)

PDF file: Work card 1 - Country by country spread of Covid-19 (301 KB)

PDF file: Work card 1 - Country by country spread of Covid-19 - Gaelic version (479 KB)

PDF file: Work card 2 - Creating a public information website, social media site video, poster or leaflet (233 KB)

PDF file: Work card 2 - Creating a public information website, social media site video, poster or leaflet - Gaelic version (504 KB)

PDF file: Work card 3 - Covid-19 - Learning Journey 1 (256 KB)

PDF file: Work card 3 - Covid-19 - Learning Journey 1 - Gaelic version (585 KB)

PDF file: Work card 4 - Tim and Moby tell you about Coronavirus (302 KB)

PDF file: Work card 5 - Covid-19 – Learning Journey 2 (292 KB)

PDF file: Work card 5 - Covid-19 – Learning Journey 2 - Gaelic version (503 KB)