Pick a link from Mr. Ferlazzo’s website that has a fair amount of text and use Awesome Highlighter to demonstrate reading strategies with virtual post-it notes. Use Backboard if Awesome Highlighter doesn’t work.
Place the url address of your annotated pages in the comments section of this post.
You might also want to pick a newspaper article on Natural Disasters from any of the following sources:
Take these natural disaster quizzes, and share in the comments section how you did and what were the three most interesting things you learned from them and why you found them interesting.
Play Disaster Watch and Stop Disasters. In the comments section of this post, write four things you learned from playing these games.
Complete this Internet Scavenger Hunt (the page calls it a Webquest) on Natural Disasters. You can write the answers on a Word document and then upload it to the Internet using File2.ws. Then paste the url address of your answers in the comments section.
After you have completed +this Internet Scavenger Hunt, please pick one natural disaster and create your own Hunt for other students to complete. Use different links and different questions. Create it in a Word document and use File2.ws again.
Read The Good Side Of Disasters and this book review of The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.
What do you think are the two best things that come out of natural disasters and why did you choose those two?
We’ll be writing two-or-three essays related to Natural Disasters. After you type each of them, please use File2.ws to upload them to the Internet and include the link in the comments section of this post.