GEYER 199437 Robot Mats Natural Disaster Planning Mat User Manual

: June 4, 2024
: GEYER

Table of Contents

The Concept
What You Will Need to Build or Buy
Challenge Areas
Depots and Roads
Community Research
Basic Game Play
Full List of Response Issues
Starting Resources
Documents / Resources

GEYER 199437 Robot Mats Natural Disaster Planning Mat

The Concept

Responding to a natural disaster requires planning, preparation, training, stockpiling resources, access to a wide range of support, assistance, and coordination between a large network of resources. Every state, county, town and city in the US and around the world has some form of emergency response plans. Required resources will vary depending on the population, economic factors, and environmental issues.

Many factors need to be considered:

Law enforcement.
Emergency medical response and care.
Long term medical care.
Response equipment like boats, bulldozers, lifters, and helicopters.
Adequate food supplies.
Electricity.
Safe water.
Safe shelter.
Working communications to replace land and cellular lines. * Alerting those in danger.
Long term shelter.
Sanitation and waste removal disposal.

Your goal is to challenge your students to think through the basic elements of emergency response. See the Full List of Response Issues on page page 8.

What You Will Need to Build or Buy

You will need illustrative items in as much detail as you want to create.

For example, you can buy counting cubes or pattern blocks. https://www.geyerinstructional.com/202985-giant-magnetic-pattern-blocks.html
https://www.geyerinstructional.com/192226-unifix-cubes-set-of-1000.html

These can be sorted and used to represent any item in your challenge: Vehicles, food, buildings, blockages, people, warning signs, and more.

Or you can buy illustrative objects to represent options in your game.
Search for toy cards, miniature people, signs, buildings, and trees.

Or you can use your vast collection of LEGO pieces to build objects.

Challenge Areas

There are seven key challenge areas and transit routes.

After reviewing the response outline at the end of this document students should research the dangers and required responses to each type of disaster.

Floods: Students will focus on the problems cause by high rate of water flow and high levels. How can they transverse the water, how can they rescue those who cannot be reached by roads or boats.

Snow: Challenges will focus on temperature, rate depth of snow, types of snow, wind and drifting, damage caused by excessive snow, and the range of rescue and medical responses.

Fire: Exercises will focus on the spread and temperature of fires, types of materials, danger to humans and animals, medical treatment, specialized response vehicle, and controlling fire propagation.
Tornadoes/Hurricanes: Scenarios will focus on wind speed, varying levels of damage, danger of building collapses and lifting, hazards of flying objects, and warning and safety/protection issues.

Earthquakes/Landslides: Responses to consider are the strength and movements related to earthquakes, the dangers of shifting ground and possible landslides as well a equipment needed to respond to the volume of material generated and the rescue of those trapped or injured.

River: The river can present a number of challenges including freezing, overflowing, contamination, and more.
Transit Routes: There are three types of routes. Gray representing pavement. Brown representing dirt. and a bridge. The center lines of the roads are based on the standard EV3 color sensor 0-7 ranges.

Depots and Roads

The depot area has the police, fire, hospital, and storage units. These will be the starting point for response equipment and personnel.

In many disasters initial response is from the community itself and precedes the arrival of designated emergency responders.

You can treat each area as an independent disaster or assume the disaster has multiple hazards. For example, an earthquake can cause fires and floods and may be accompanied by severe weather.

Community Research

Your students should initially review the outline at the end of this document and formulate some questions.

Then your students should begin by researching your local community’s emergency response plans.

Special facilities/vehicles
Required training
Special plans
Stored resources
Methods of communication

Search for
“YOUR CITY/COUNTY/STATE emergency response”

Ask if they can visit and interview emergency staff and request copies of written plans and procedures.

Then do the same for the nearest large city.

When this is complete, review the outline and begin to formulate some distaster scenarios and the appropriate response.
You can use the worksheet on the next page to plan your scenarios.

Basic Game Play

Propose a disaster scenario using the worksheet.
Build the starting scenario on the table.
Plan the response and work through it applying issues in the extended outline at the end of the document.
This can be done manually or combined with robot design and program.
The goal for each round is to educate student on the complexity and importance of effective emergency responses.

Full List of Response Issues

This is a list of the key issues that must be addressed in any disaster recover plan.

Communication
a. Homes with Internet
b. How do you provide vetted information
c. How do you communicate legitimate messages
d. Who is accurate
e. Who has actionable information
f. Steps for citizens and responders
g. How do you provider other information resources
Resources
a. You never have enough resources
b. Need manufacturing info: Who can you buy from?
c. What do you need for your disaster
d. How do you plan to provide mutual aid and work together
e. How do you prioritize resources a limited number of resources
i. Masks
ii. Gowns
iii. Face shields
iv. Medical supplies
v. Food
vi. [explore more options] f. Who gets access to equipment and who is trained to use equipment
i. Snowplows
1. What do you plow first
2. What is the impact
ii. Ambulances
1. Who do you rescue first?
iii. Fire equipment.
1. Which fires do you respond to first?
iv. Food
1. Who gets food? How?
v. [explore more options]
Re-unification/Communication
a. Where is everyone at the event time
b. How do they use their personal communication to reconnect with family, loved ones, friends
c. What tools are available
Infrastructure
a. Electricity
b. Internet
c. Water
d. Gas/Propane
e. Roads
f. Communications infrastructure (Internet/phone)
g. Example:
i. If you lose your Internet connection: How does that effect you.
1. Could be many days.
2. What can you do?
a. On pause? No payments, etc.
b. I’m going engage in business in an emergency way. How can I improvise.
c. Example: Sportsware: We can retool. Or we can produce face shields.
ii. If you lose water, gas, etc.
iii. If you lose trash collection.
h. [explore more options]
Continuity of Operations
a. Access to buildings / facilities
b. What if you had to shut down city hall
c. What essential tasks does that organization provide
d. How to offices operate without access to their facilities
i. Licensing
ii. Courts
iii. [explore more options] e. Retool / re-work
f. What if I lose my workforce? Can I deliver?
Supply Chain
a. Shortages: How do you deal with shortage
b. What alternatives to you have? Re-tool, re-purpose
c. Start over the deal with the disaster
d. What upstream vendors are doing.
e. When you go to the store why isn’t it there?
f. How do you response to a break in your Just In Time supply chain.
Forming the response
a. What does it look like?
b. Example: You call 911 you get an emergency response.
c. Limits of government response.
d. Day to day response.
e. Can it be executed?
f. Are there resources?
g. Schools: Evacuation / response
h. Business: similar
i. Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
i. Can the community respond?
ii. What do they need?
iii. What buildings can be used for help?
iv. What locations are safe?
Recovery
a. Who do we recover?
b. What do we need to restore the communities?
c. What resources do we need to rebuild?
d. Financial assistance: Federal and local.
e. Rebuilding roads/buildings
f. Insurance assistance
Disaster Impact
a. What are the outcomes?
b. Who will move?
c. What will happen in the environment? Animals, etc.
Emotional Recovery
a. Personal issues/loss
b. Community impact
c. Recover from loss of resources and life
d. Mental health
Mitigation/After Action
a. We know we learn lessons
b. Can we change our methods and planning?
c. Can we make it better next time?
d. What can we apply to future issues?
e. Preparation for next event.
f. Taking action on things you can take action on before they get bad.
h. Do we elevate homes?
i. If do something now when the sky is blue. Will it pay off or not?
Preparedness
a. Prepare for the future
b. What do we need
c. If you are prepared for the wrong challenge?
d. What are preparing for?
e. Supplies and equipment
f. Support storage?
g. Do I need five vehicles? Or can I partner with mutual aid?
h. How does location effect preparedness?
i. What can we share with others?
j. Who has the resources we need?
k. The skills we need?
l. Plans. Where will the resources come from?
m. MUTUAL AID BOX ALARM SYSTEM (MABAS): Mutual agreement between counties and states to share resources.
Trained Response
a. Do know the plan?
b. Have we tried the plan?
c. Are leaders trained to follow the plan.
d. Valid exercises to illustrate the issues.
e. How do distribute cures/solutions?
i. Drive throughs
ii. Facilities
iii. Staffing
Awareness of manufacturing/hazardous materials.
a. Plan for hazardous substances
b. Gas, nuclear, fuel

Starting Resources

Grainger: Emergency Preparedness Plan
https://www.grainger.com/know-how/safety/emergency-response/emergency- preparedness-and-response/kh-emergency-preparedness-plan-332-qt

Ready.gov
https://www.ready.gov/plan

Red Cross: Disaster Preparedness Plan
https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/make- aplan.html

CDC: Preparedness & Planning
https://emergency.cdc.gov/planning

Natural Disaster Challenge #1 SKU 199437
Geyer Instructional, 7624 Reinhold Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45237 / 800-447 9368
https://www.geyerinstructional.com

Documents / Resources

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