Please go to Slideshare and register. Then, click on “Upload” and find your PowerPoint file on the computer. Next, copy the url of your PowerPoint and paste it in the comments section of this post. If there is a problem uploading your presentation to Slideshare, please repeat this same process with these alternative sites: Authorstream [...]
Look at these two photos that were taken during the New Orleans Katrina flooding, and their captions. Why do you think they wrote that the couple “found” food, and the man “looted” (stole) it?
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 [...]
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. National Geographic Natural Disasters Quiz Thinkquest Natural Disasters Fact Monster Great Disasters Quiz
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 [...]
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?
Please use either ProProf’s or MyStudiyo to create a quiz of at least five questions related to Natural Disasters and include the link in the comments section.
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.
Please take this quiz — How Prepared Are You If Disaster Strikes?. How did you do? What was the most surprising piece of information you learned?
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: The Great Earthquake of 1906 The Great Quake The Great San Francisco Earthquake
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 [...]
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: 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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
