CLASS X

SOCIAL STUDIES

 Prepare a project on Administering First aid in a Disaster Management, following guidelines:

 1. Highlight the following:

a. Definition of ‘Disaster’.

b. What is disaster management?

c. Name 10 noticeable man-made and 10 noticeable natural disasters which have occurred in the world in the past 100 years and research the statistics of lives lost and properties lost in each disaster.

d. Write any inspiring real life story based on a disaster.

 2. Administering First Aid (select any Two for your project)

 (Detail various types of each selected, if any)

a. Fractures

b. Asthma Attack

c. Back Injury

d. Bites

e. Burns

f. Choking

g. Drowning

h. Heat stroke

 3. Based on your selection in Point 2 above, list the following in your project:

a. What the victim may complain of -

b. What to look for (symptoms)

c. What to do –

 4. Based on your selection of the accident in Point 2 above make any one of the following to promote awareness of safety in and outside your home.

a. Make a poster

b. Make a list of addresses and phone numbers of five prominent hospitals closest your locality.

 General Instructions:

1. The project should be hand written.

2. It should be well presented, researched, and pictorial.

3. Cover page, table of contents, acknowledgements, list of books, internet or magazines referred, headings and sub – headings are a must.

4. Each section should be done on different coloured A4 size sheets.

5. The project should be presented in a file.

6. The project should not exceed 15 pages.

7. Do not exceed 700 words.

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