Take Some Natural Disaster Quizzes
Take several of these Natural Disaster Quizzes. Which was the hardest? Which was the easiest? What was the most interesting thing you learned from them?
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Please go to one or all of these websites about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and write a three or four sentence summary of what happened: The Great Earthquake of 1906 The Great Quake The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Highlight Important Words
Go to a webpage (that has a lot of text) under the Natural Disasters section on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Copy the url address of the page. Then go to Awesome Highlighter and paste the url address of the page you chose. Highlight no more than three words in each paragraph that you think show the [...]
Write A Postcard Report
Go to Phreetings. You can search for a photo that would illustrate a short report you would write about a natural disaster. It’s basically a report on a virtual “postcard.” Post the link in the comments section.
Visualize What You Are Reading
Choose a few sentences from one of the websites under Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Then go to one of these online drawing sites: Flash Paint Imagination Cubed Art Pad Draw a picture of what the text makes you see in your mind. Include the text either in the drawing itself or next to [...]
Read About Natural Disasters
Go to the Natural Disasters section of Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Click on any of the links you find there that look interesting. In the comments section here, write five things you learned and five questions about things you’d like to learn more about. Also, please include which website or websites you visited.
Develop (And Respond) To A Survey
Go to Doodle or Yarp and come up with a survey question (and two or more answers) related somehow to Natural Disasters. Put the link to your survey question in the comments section so other students can respond.
Surviving A Natural Disaster
Please go to Survive Anything: Your Ultimate Guide To Disaster. What are the three most interesting things you learned from that resource? Why was each one so interesting to you?
The World's Worst Natural Disasters
Look at this slideshow on The World’s Worst Natural Disasters. After you watch the slideshow, please write three questions in the comments section about things related to the disasters that you’d like to learn more about…
Create A Crossword Puzzle
Create a crossword puzzle using information about Natural Disasters, and put the link in the comments section. Try to use information from what we’ve learned in class or from the Natural Disasters section on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website.
Make a Natural Disaster Map
Use Zee Maps, Quikmaps, Maptrot or UMapper to make a map of major natural disasters. Your map can show different kinds of disasters, or the same (such as an earthquake) that has happened in different places. Please write several sentences, in your own words, about each disaster. Zeemaps lets you insert an image into your [...]
Create A Natural Disaster Slideshow
Please write a short report that goes with a slideshow you create about natural disasters. You can make a slideshow that is about a kind of natural disaster — avalanche, volcano, flood, earthquake, drought, etc — or one about a specific disaster — Katrina, the recent Chinese earthquake, the San Francisco earthquake, etc. You can [...]
How Would You Feel?
This picture shows someone trying to rescue a victim of the 2008 earthquake in China. If you were that victim, how do you think you would feel and why? If you were the rescuer, how do you think you would feel and why?
