Natural Disasters - Project Dates Nov. 17 - Dec. 20
Essential Questions
1. What is a natural disaster?
2. What combination of factors causes different kinds natural disasters?
Objectives
1. Students will be able to identify natural disasters and their characteristics.
2. Students will be able to identify where specific natural disasters occur.
3. Students will be able to describe methods of predicting natural disasters.
4. Students will learn how to prepare for disasters and what to do when they occur.
Culminating Activity
Student pairs create natural disaster preparedness presentations about a natural disaster that could occur in their Partner School’ country. Students choose from a variety of presentation formats: a homepage, a PowerPoint slide show or a television advertisement.
Project Elements
This project has four parts:
1. Engage, Activate Prior Knowledge and Build Context;
2. Students exchange three emails with their Partner School;
3. Create presentations about natural disasters in their area to present to partner school.
4. Reflect / Assess
WEB Resources
National Council for Geographic Education Standards
The world in spatial terms:
How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.
Places and Regions:
The physical and human characteristics of places.
Physical Systems:
The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface.
Environment and Society:
How human actions modify the physical environment.
How physical systems affect human systems.
National Science Education Standards:
Unifying Concepts and Processes
Earth and Space Science
Earth and Space Science.
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives.
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Task 1
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Task 2 Email
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Task 3 Email
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Task 4 Email
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Task 4 VC
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Engage, Activate Prior Knowledge and Build Context
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Identify the types of natural disasters that could happen in the region where their Partner School live.
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History of natural disasters in the region where their Partner School live.
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Identify what can be done to prepare for a natural disaster and what to do if one occurs.
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Culminating Activity.
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1. Students introduce themselves.
2. Students ask their Partner School questions about themselves.
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1. Students respond to their Partner School’ comments and questions.
2. Students ask their Partner School’ questions and make comments about their Partner School' prior emails.
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1. Students respond to their Partner School' comments and questions.
2. Students ask their Partner School questions and make comments about their Partner School' prior emails.
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1. Students respond to their Partner School' comments and questions.
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Learn about natural disasters: what they are; where they occur; how they occur.
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Students research natural disasters that occur where their Partner School live. Students write observations and ask their Partner School questions about natural disasters in the region in which the Partner School live.
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Students choose one natural disaster from Partner School' geographic location to further research. Students write to their Partner School, identifying that natural disaster and including their observations and questions about the history of the natural disasters in the Partner School’ location.
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Students study what warnings, if any, precede the chosen disaster and what residents can do to prepare. Students ask their Partner School what experience, if any, they have with the chosen natural disaster.
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Working in small groups, students create natural disaster preparedness presentations about natural disasters that could occur in their Partner School’ communities. Students have a choice of presentation formats: a homepage, a PowerPoint slide show or a television advertisement.
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Schedule
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