Take Some Natural Disaster Quizzes
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?
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
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
Highlight Important Words
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.
Write A Postcard Report
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.
Visualize What You Are Reading
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.
Read About Natural Disasters
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.
