You can make slideshows for the New Orleans unit while you’re in Mr. Williams’ class.
You can make a Bookr slideshow about New Orleans in general, Mardis Gras, or Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to use links on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website to find information and put it in your own words on your slideshow.
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?
First, go to any website under the Natural Disasters section of Mr. Ferlazzo’s website.
Second, pick a webpage from one of those websites that has a fair amount of text.
Third, copy the url address of that webpage and then go to Awesome Highlighter. Paste the url address in the box on the top of the Awesome Highlighter page. Awesome Highlighter might not work. If it doesn’t, use Book Goo. If that doesn’t work, use Jog The Web.
Then, please write a virtual “post-it” note demonstrating one reading strategy (making a connection, evaluating, predicting, visualizing, summarizing) for each paragraph.
Finally, copy and paste the link to your page in the comments section of this post.
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 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 main ideas and most important points from that paragraph. 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.
Use the One Sens to create a “Sentence Scramble” that other students can try to figure out. A Sentence Scramble is a group of words that are mixed-up, but can be put in order to make sense.
Use a sentence from one of the websites you find under Natural Disasters.
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.
Go to Snap Poll and come up with a survey question (and two or more answers) related somehow to Natural Disasters. You can also make a poll with Flektor — just remember to write you’re a “guest” when the site asks.
It’s easy to create a poll. However, in order to make sure that students from our classes can answer from school computers, there is one thing you have to do. After you’ve completed designing your poll, you will go to “Step Three.” That page begins by saying “Enter options if you…..”
At the bottom of that page, under Advanced Options, you must “uncheck” the two boxes that say “from one IP address” and “from one computer (cookies).”:
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 either Zee Maps or Quikmaps 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 or Big Huge Labs. 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.
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?
Go to Sacramento Flood Maps. Click on the “Rescue” maps for the area you live in (probably either South Sacramento or The Pocket).
The areas in red will flood immediately. People who live in the yellow area will have a little time to escape.
Which color area is your home located in? What would you take with you if you only had a few minutes to escape the flood? Why?
The road in green are the safe ways to leave. Which road would you take?
If members of your family were in different places when the flood began, do you have a place where you would meet?
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?
Before a person climbs Mount Everest, they must fill-out something called a “Body Disposal Form.” In this form, the climber says what they want done with their body if they die while they’re on the mountain.
There are three choices — leave it on the mountain, have it cremated, or have it sent back home.
Please read this Body Disposal Form. Even though it is for a mountain that is near Everest called Cho Oyu, it is similar to Everest’s form.
If you were going to climb Everest, which choice would you make and why?
Only answer this question if you feel comfortable writing about it! It’s okay not to answer this question. Also, if you want to answer the question but don’t want it published here, that’s okay, too. Just say that in your response and Mr. Ferlazzo will be the only person to read it.
