Earthquakes, Volcanoes & other Disasters Activities

Description

In this unit, students learn about natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides through vocabulary activities, folded flipbooks, mix-pair-share, and an interdisciplinary writing activity.

*15 word wall words (volcano, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, erupt, epicenter, vent, lava, magma, Richter scale, seismograph, tectonic plates, core, mantle, crust

*Mix, Pair, Share cards: Vocabulary cards and definitions for students use to mix and pair up to find their match!

*Tectonic Plate Activities:

-Label the layers in the Earth

-Typed of Plate Boundaries Chart

-Folded Flipbook: Fast Changes to the Earth Causes and Effects with sorting cards

*Earthquake Activities:

– Folded Flipbook: Earthquake vocabulary

– Earthquake Cause and Effect cut and glue

– Major Earthquakes Reading and chart

*Tsunami Cause and Effect cut and glue

*Landslide Cause and Effect Map

*Volcano Activities

– Label a Volcano

– Types of Volcanoes Chart

– Volcano Writing Activity: Volcanoes Save the World or Destroy the World! (language chart, graphic organizer, publishing paper)

– Volcano Craftivity

*Changes to the Earth Word Search

*Changes to the Earth Online Resource List

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