Natural Disasters Unit: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Landslides Activities

Description

Explore the layers of the Earth and natural disasters. This unit teaches earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and more through vocabulary activities, crafts, folded books, and printables.

In this unit, students learn about layers of the Earth and natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides through vocabulary activities, crafts, 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 Craft

Changes to the Earth Word Search

Changes to the Earth Online Resource List

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