Tilly Smith is a schoolgirl at Danes Hill School in Oxshott, Surrey, England. Back from Thailand she told her geography class how the sea slowly rose and started to foam(起泡沫), bubble, and form whirlpools(漩涡) before the big waves came.
“What Tilly Smith described as happening was exactly the same as I’d shown on a video of a tsunami that hit the Hawaiian Islands in 1946,” said Andrew F. Kearney, Tilly’s geograph teacher. “She was the consequences(推论) of not acting when something strange happens.” Kearney said topics for sixth-grade pupils include earthquakes and vocalnoes.
“We covered tsunamis because they can be caused by earthquakes, vocalnoes, or landslides,” he added. “I’ve taught this particular course for at least 11 years.”
Kearney uses recorded pictures and sound of teaching aids such as interactive whiteboards to exploit geographic information online (his class often visits nationalgeographic.com). Tilly’s class had looked up U.S. websites about tsunami’s early warning systems.
“The teacher has a computer on the desk and can project(投射) different web pages onto the whiteboard,” Kearney said. “It’s helped make great progress in teaching geography, it really brings it into the classroom.”
On December 26, 2004, Tilly Smith, ten, saw “bubbles on the water and foam sizzling(发出嘶嘶声) just like in a frying pan” while walking on Phuket Island beach with her family. Her mind kept going back to the geography lesson Mr. Kearney gave just two weeks before she flew out to Thailand on vacation. She recognized these as the warning signs of a tsunami.
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