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WebQuest Title: U.S. Natural Hazards
Author: Annie Breier
Date: March 18, 2003
Dear Colleague:
This unit is designed to introduce students to the natural hazards of the United States. The natural hazards covered in this unit are hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and winter storms. The first section of the unit will cover definitions, regions, and functions of assigned natural hazards. The second section will cover the Webquest.
Goals/Objectives:
Days:
2 Days
Content:
The content for this will focus on the definitions, regions, and functions of the natural hazards of the United States. Students will research these specific areas of the natural hazards and compare/contrast them with a hazard in a different region of the U.S. Students will also research the destruction that comes along with it.
Methods:
Within this unit, the class is involved in cooperative learning, discussion, power point presentations, displays, charts, and the WebQuest activity.
Webquest Summary:
Goals/Objectives:
Students will use the internet to research natural hazards, including, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and winter storms.
Students will understand the definitions, regions, occurrence, functions, and destruction of natural hazards in the United States.
Days:
3 Days
Content:
Students will research the natural hazards through websites provided for them. They will write their own paper on assigned hazards, create a newspaper as a group, and design a display of destruction caused to the earth.
Methods:
Students will research the Internet as a resource for their paper and power point presentation. They can use computer generated pictures for their destruction displays as well.
Unit Information:
Background Resources
Teacher Background Resources: http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazard.html
Webquest Teacher Resources
Student Background Resources Webquest Student Resources http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazard.html
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/volcanoes
http://www.howstuffworks.com/hurricane.htm
Unit Lesson Sequence
Day 1 Back to Top
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Lecture Discuss the natural hazards of the United States Internet sites, books, articles Class discussion Answer questions/notes Internet sites, books Cooperative learning Students will be separated into groups to research a specific natural hazard and a write a paper (on their own) comparing and contrasting their hazard with a different one in another region of the United States Internet sites
Day 2 Back to Top
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Lecture Display the natural hazards to the students through power point and they will develop their own power point presentations. PowerPoint Presentations Students will present their individual papers to the class. Papers, transparencies, handouts.
Day 3 Back to Top
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Class discussion Discuss papers students wrote and answer questions Internet sites Cooperative learning Students will be separated into groups of four to create a one page newspaper headline about their natural hazard they researched, describing to the town in that region what to expect, shelters, risk, and destruction factors. Internet sites, power point, articles
Day 4 Back to Top
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Individual work Research papers Internet sites, power point
Day 5 Back to Top
Lesson Plan Outline
Method (Attention Getter, Lecture, Callout Group, etc) Content/Key Ideas/Concepts/Facts
Materials
(Transparencies, audio, handouts, etc)Cooperative learning Students will present their newspaper headline to the class Newspaper article they developed.
After the class has finished with this unit the students will have an understanding of the natural hazards of the United States. The students will be familiar with specific terms, functions, risks, and destructions of the hazards located throughout the U.S. They will have a better understanding of why and how they develop and happen and what precautions can be done about it.