Week 5 Week 6 – May 28 June 7 – Learning Standards Instruction Resources Products, Projects, Labs Assessment Earth and space Essential Vocabulary: The student knows that Catastrophic events, ecosystem, floods, hurricanes, EVALUATE natural events and human tornados, earthquakes Use the following Using the , students will Students will create activity can impact Earth lessons to support learn and understand that a poster, rap, poem, systems. ENGAGE students daily by different types of soil have describing various students’ understanding and knowledge by using different capacities for types of catastrophic The student is expected retaining rainwater and if the events such as Brainstorming a list of catastrophic events and Science Starter 50 to: soil in an area does not hold hurricanes, tsunami, natural disasters; then, using Think-Pair-Share, Catastrophic enough rainwater, flooding typhoons and students will reflect on the question, effects Events “What Predict and describe how problems will ensue. tornadoes and how do catastrophic events have on living systems?” different types of these events impact catastrophic events impact our ecosystems. Watching selected video segments from , students ecosystems such as will explore some of these events up-close, from the floods, hurricanes, or Reflection overwhelming storm surge of Hurricane Katrina to tornadoes 7.8A Describe some of the the destructive landslides in Venezuela to the misery catastrophic events caused by the Mississippi River floods. Structural you heard about in engineers and meteorologists explain the dangerous the past ten years nature of flash floods as well as slow-building water. and how these
Week 5 – Week 6 May 28 – June 7 Learning Standards Instruction Resources Products, Projects, Labs Assessment Earth and space The student knows that natural events and human activity can impact Earth systems. The student is expected to: Predict and describe how different types of catastrophic events impact ecosystems such as floods, hurricanes, or tornadoes 7.8A Essential Vocabulary: Catastrophic events, ecosystem, floods, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes ENGAGE students daily by Brainstorming a list of catastrophic events and natural disasters; then, using Think-Pair-Share, students will reflect on the question, “What effects do catastrophic events have on living systems?” Watching selected video segments from , students will explore some of these events up-close, from the overwhelming storm surge of Hurricane Katrina to the destructive landslides in Venezuela to the misery caused by the Mississippi River floods. Structural engineers and meteorologists explain the dangerous nature of flash floods as well as slow-building water. Use the following lessons to support students’ understanding and knowledge by using Science Starter 50 Catastrophic Events Using the , students will learn and understand that different types of soil have different capacities for retaining rainwater and if the soil in an area does not hold enough rainwater, flooding problems will ensue. EVALUATE Students will create a poster, rap, poem, describing various types of catastrophic events such as hurricanes, tsunami, typhoons and tornadoes and how these events impact our ecosystems. Reflection Describe some of the catastrophic events you heard about in the past ten years and how these
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