Teachers, you can use our Taranaki Blowout teaching units.
Scroll down to download the teaching units, and an audio-visual teaching resource you're free to use.
Use these units to help your class to:
- Better understand Taranaki's volcanic hazards.
- Be better prepared to cope with an emergency.
You are welcome to use the junior, middle and senior unit plans below, and the information and activities unfolding on these pages, in any way that suits the needs of your students.
These units were adapted for Taranaki Blowout from the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management resource What's the Plan Stan? The units are based on three phases of a fictional eruption of Mount Taranaki:
| Build-up (4 weeks) |
Eruption (1 week) |
Recovery and follow-up (1 week) |
| What will happen during the build-up to an eruption and what can we do to get ready? |
An eruption scenario is an ideal time to practise emergency response procedures. | How we'll recover and adapt to living with an active volcano. |
Download these units
These units can be downloaded as PDFs or Word documents, the latter being editable so you can adapt them as required.
| Junior unit plan Word format (250 KB) PDF format (157 KB) |
Middle unit plan (Years 4-6) Word format (313 KB) PDF format (205 KB) |
Senior unit plan (Years 7-13) Word format (320 KB) PDF format (231 KB) |
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Who was behind Taranaki Blowout?
| The exercise was run by the Taranaki Civil Defence Emergency Management Group in partnership with New Zealand Red Cross and with input from GNS Science. |  |
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The CDEM Group acknowledged the support of these organisations:
 GNS Science |
 Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management |
 M&O Pacific |
 Powerco |
 Classic Hits 90FM Taranaki |
 93.2 More FM Taranaki |
 Methanex New Zealand Ltd |
 Pace Engineering Ltd |