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jsauchuk

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High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« on: July 07, 2008, 04:53:45 PM »
This lesson is for a little higher level students.

After going through the powerpoint slides and discussing the topic, break the class into groups.  Each group gets a "Natural Disaster Plan" worksheet.  Explain the worksheet and get them to fill it out (For higher level students I tell them that "Food and Water" count as one item).

Finally, go around the class and have each group discuss their plan.
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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 11:19:19 AM »
That's very useful thanks.  I teach some academic English classes in the evening, so this will be great for physical geography.
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Offline zachmokpo

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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 08:18:05 AM »
Thanks for the lesson. I'm going to give my students an example of what a volcano do by telling them about the Roman city of Pompeii. :)
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Natural Disasters Revamped
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2010, 10:09:37 AM »
I took elements (and even some images) from a couple Natural Disasters lesson posts here on Waygook for my PowerPoint and worksheet (worksheet came from eslprintables but I retooled the second page to include a survival plan instead of more fill in the blank questions).
After discussing the natural disaster examples I had students split in to small groups to do the survival plan together. Then groups had to stand and describe the disaster they chose, their items they'd have and why, and finally the answers to the last three questions.
Feel free to eliminate any slides in the PowerPoint due to time constraints. I tested it out yesterday and have to take out some slides, but am leaving it intact for this post. Also some animations are messed up from copying and pasting so feel free to work around those as well.
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Re: Natural Disasters Revamped
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2010, 10:51:50 AM »
This looks amazing and seems like it will be a really great lesson.  Thank you so much for sharing!  I'm definitely going to try this out soon with my students :D
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Re: Natural Disasters Revamped
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2010, 11:27:35 AM »
This looks fantastic.  I'll be using this one soon, for sure.
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Offline Paul

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Re: Natural Disasters Revamped
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2010, 03:03:03 PM »
If needing some resources for this, I seem to recall the Singaporean government released a pretty good online web portal for disaster safety ideas and plans a couple of years back. Don't know the address offhand, but it struck me as pretty good, and naturally in English.
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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2010, 10:51:42 AM »
Thanks for the PPT. Just a note on the tornadoes section. That should be 64-110 m/s not km/hour. Average wind speed calculations vary but 360-500 km/hour is often cited.
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Re: Natural Disasters Revamped
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2010, 11:06:44 AM »
Awesome worksheet. Tornado speeds are wrong on the PPT though. That should be 64-110 m/s. That's about 360-500 km/hour. Thanks again. Good stuff.
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Offline grosje

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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2011, 07:57:38 AM »
Awesome. I got up at 6 today to make something like this for my Volcanoes winter camp, and here it was. You saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much!!
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Offline Pyrite

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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2011, 09:47:07 PM »
I agree that this lesson is for higher level students, I tried it with my high school students thinking it should work well.  But I think their level was just a little too low as they struggled with it.
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Offline Shaddock

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Re: High School - Natural Disasters Lesson
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2011, 04:00:18 PM »
awesome lesson, I think i can retool it for elementary school (some things made easier)
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High School-Natural Disasters
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2011, 01:20:41 PM »
Here is my lesson for natural disasters. There is way too much information here, so feel free to go quickly or take a few out.
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