Title: Natural Disaster
Type
of teaching unit: Lesson Plan
Grade
Level(s): 3rd, 4th, 5th
Time
Frame: 4 days
Name: Kevin Van Ness
School:
Email
Address: lebnme1@yahoo.com
Lesson
plan description and rationale:
The children will be learning to relate the destructive
forces of nature to disasters that have and still do occur in our area.
Understanding some of the different types of natural disasters that
could happen in our area will prepare children to react in a natural disaster
and will build an understanding of how communities come together in a time
of crisis.
State
Standard(s):
17.C.2a Describe how natural events in the physical environment
affect human activities.
Objectives:
The
children will be able to connect the idea that a natural disaster affects
human life and activities by comparing and contrasting the photos presented
during the lesson.
Methods:
1.
(1st day)
The students will be asked to write two paragraphs.
One will be about what they think would happen during a flood, and
the other will be about what might happen during a tornado.
2.
Using what the students have written, we will
construct a web using the kidspiration software.
The topic will be tornados and floods.
3.
(2nd day)
Using power point we will begin viewing the American
Memory Website photos that I selected.
We will view one flood photo and then one tornado photo. After each group of photos, the students will
be asked to write down what is the same (compare) about each photo and what
is different (contrast) about each photo.
There will be 4 groups of photos.
4.
(3rd day)
We will be using the Internet to research newspaper articles about
tornados and the damage they cause. The students will then write a review
on the article and compare it to what they had written the first day of the
lesson.
5.
(4th day)
We will be watching the video about the 1993 flood that occurred in
St. Louis. Afterwards, the students
will be writing a narrative paper. The topics will be either the flood of East
St. Louis or the tornado that hit East St. Louis. These narrative papers will be fictional accounts
about what might happen if a flood or tornado struck East St. Louis.
Evaluation:
The
narrative papers which were written on the last day of the lesson will be
gathered and analyzed for understanding as to what might happen if a flood
or tornado struck East St. Louis. The
students should be able to explain and generalize what might happen if a flood
or tornado struck their hometown. I will be using the rubric from the Illinois
State Board of Education to score the papers.
The rubric can be found at the following address, www.isbe.net/assessment/LERubricN.htm.
Resources:
Other
Resources:
Tornado
Stories
http://www.franklinkansas.com/tornadostories.html
Personal
Tornado Stories
http://www.kilty.com/t_story.htm
Tornado
Survivor Stories
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1999/04/18/loc_tornado_survivors.html
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The Flood of 93. Kirland, Russ and Tiemann, Dale.
KMOV Channel 4. 1993. |
