Nature’s Fury How do natural disasters affect people’s lives and our environment?

Nature’s Fury

How do natural disasters affect people’s lives and our environment?

Karen BrisbaneUnit Portfolio Presentation

Unit Summary

• Natural Disasters occur in our world daily. You will use organizational and graphic features to read and comprehend expository text on natural disasters. You will then research the natural disaster of your choice in order to create a digital report using music, graphic and organizational features, and words to present your disaster to the class.

Curriculum-Framing Questions

o Essential Question • How do humans respond to events that are outside of

their control?

oUnit Questions• Why do natural disasters occur?• How do natural disasters impact us?• How do I respond to unexpected events?

Curriculum Framing Questions

Content Questions• What are the graphic features of expository

text?• What are the organizational features of

expository text?• What happens to the environment as a result

of natural disasters?• What are some of the natural disasters that

occur on earth?

Nature’s Fury Digital Report

This project will help you develop 21st Century skills such as:

• Collaboration with peers.• Research on the Internet to find information• Evaluation of the accuracy and relevance of the

information.• Evaluation of the relevance of music and graphics to your

topic.• Composition/creation of a “digital report” to

communicate your learning.

Gauging Student Needs Assessment

KWL Chart will• determine your prior knowledge• establish what you want to learn• establish your confidence at reading

expository text• determine your expository text interests• define what you have learned

Gauging Student Needs Assessment

Pretest will determine your ability to• locate specific information using organizational

features • interpret information using graphic features • Identify text features in various expository texts• identify signal and transitional words of

expository text• examine the differences between organizational

and graphic features

My Goals for the Course• locate specific information using text features, • interpret information using graphic features of natural

disasters. • research a natural disaster, create a digital report, and present

to classmates• identify text features in adopted math, science, and social

studies text• identify signal and transitional words of expository text• examine the differences between organizational and graphic

features• analyze the impact of natural disasters on people and their

environments• create an emergency response

Request for Feedback

• Other activities to increase student comprehension of expository text

Works Cited

Images from: annageog.blogspot.com worldproutassembly.org parryloeffler.com personalliberty.com springtownship.com essc.psu.edu ed101.bu.edu blogs.lawrence.edu pugetsoundblogs.com users.apex2000.net