Community Stakeholders

7.A Integrate written text with multimedia displays of tsunami warning and preparedness systems to clarify additional ways communities at-risk of tsunami can mitigate potential future effects.

Look for clearly identified stakeholders with particular needs for emergency communication, and then look for corresponding criteria and constraints that address those needs but might limit what can be used to develop or evaluate potential solutions. Use the previous example table to see specific example student responses.

If students are struggling to connect stakeholder needs with criteria and constraints of communication systems, use a local or relevant example to walk them through the process. For example, ask students: If there is a fire in our school, how do we, the stakeholders, receive the warning? Would all people in our class receive the alert? What might prevent someone from receiving it? Is there only one alert style or more than one (e.g., sound, lights, vibrations, others)? Using an example familiar to students might help access their knowledge about different criteria and constraints for communication systems. Other examples could be Amber alerts or tornado warnings; consider also using non-emergency communications, such as the school announcements or announcements at sporting events or theme parks.