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?
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?
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:
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 main ideas and most important points from that paragraph. Also show at least two different reading strategies. Please put the link to your page in the comments section.
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.
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:
Draw a picture of what the text makes you see in your mind. Include the text either in the drawing itself or next to the link you post in the comments section.
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.
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?
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 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.
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 description, but Quikmaps just lets your write text.
Put the link to your map in the comments section. You can make as many maps as you like.
Here’s a simple example of an Earthquake map:
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 make as many slideshows as you want.
Use either Bookr. You can also go to Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website to find information for your report. Please try to use your own words.
Copy and paste the link to your slideshows in the comments section.
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?