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Using Reading Strategies

Larry Ferlazzo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:19:39 +0000

Pick a link from Mr. Ferlazzo’s website that has a fair amount of text and use Backboard to demonstrate reading strategies with virtual post-it notes.

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:

The Guardian

Science Daily

Earthquake Newspaper Archive

Hurricane Newspaper Archive

Tornado Newspaper Archive

More Natural Disaster Quizzes

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:21:09 +0000

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

Natural Disasters Games

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:14:16 +0000

Play Disaster Watch and Stop Disasters. In the comments section of this post, write four things you learned from playing these games.

Internet Scavenger Hunt On Natural Disasters

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:10:44 +0000

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.

Does Anything Good Come Out Of Natural Disasters?

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:57:54 +0000

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?

Create A Natural Disaster Quiz

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:34:37 +0000

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.

Natural Disaster Essays

Larry Ferlazzo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:22:38 +0000

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.

Take Another Quiz — Are You Prepared?

Larry Ferlazzo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:41:01 +0000

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 Some Natural Disaster Quizzes

Larry Ferlazzo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:26:18 +0000

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

Larry Ferlazzo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:13:03 +0000

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