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 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:
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 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.
“Looting” or “Finding”?
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?
What Happens If The Levees Break In Sacramento?
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?
Watch this animation of Sacramento being flooded.
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?
