Menu

Our Chaotic World In Context

Bring home the impact of natural disasters

Learn more

How would the the earthquakes of the Pacific Rim or the storm surges of the Americas affect Northern Ireland?

This project assists teachers in demonstrating the need for resilience and the implications of natural disasters through local services and surroundings.

OurRagingPlanet is a human impact education tool that allows students to view basic simulations of disasters in their area, using public data to estimate the impact on familiar local landmarks. The web-based tool works on modern desktop and tablet systems.

OurRagingPlanet is funded through the OpenDataNI Education Competition, with thanks to the OpenDataNI team, the Department of Finance and Department of Economy of Northern Ireland for their help and support. This product is not endorsed by any public body. This educational software is not intended to provide accurate simulation of natural phenomena and should not be used to estimate disaster outcomes in susceptible areas..

Learn more
  1. Award winning
  2. Unique technology
  3. Price table
  4. Timeline-based

LocaltoYou

Centre a simulationon your school, town or elsewhere
in Northern Ireland. To help students relate to impact, damage predictions
involve familiar placenames and landmarks

ReadytoTeach

Our interface allows teachers to insert multichoice questions and instructions
into the student interface. Lesson plans give teachers a ready-made structure for
incorporating OurRagingPlanet into natural disaster education.

ImpactKS3
  • Relating to the
  • human impact of
  • natural disasters
Learn More
ManagementGCSE
  • Helping students
  • to understand
  • disaster management
Learn More
SkillsAll
  • Helps build
  • cross-curricular tasks and
  • map-reading skills
Learn More

HourtoHour

Students & teachers more back and forward through an event timeline,
seeing a situation develop. This shows newsflashes, social media and teacher-set tasks
to help students build a concept of catastrophe timescales.

Follow the timeline as events unfold

Our tool shows a disaster unfolding and illustrates the progressive loss of services over the course of hours and days.

Contextualize with local data

Familiar landmarks, centres, carparks supplied through public sector open data initiatives are used to show students the human impact of disasters on their own surroundings.

Extend our materials in your own way

Sample lesson plans and in-product learning tools allow you to get started fast, while allowing custom tasks and multichoice to be shown in the interface.

OurRagingPlanet Overview Play
OUR CHAOTIC WORLD IN CONTEXT

How would the earthquakes of the Pacific RIm
or the Storm Surges of the Americas affect Northern Ireland

email: info@ourragingplanet.com
tel. +44 (0)77169 32871
Flax & Teal Ltd
Forsyth House, Belfast BT2 8LA
×

Log in