November 16 -- November 20

Monday, November 16

How can science and engineering help protect people from natural hazards?

-Pretest

-Brainstorm Natural Hazards

Tuesday, November 17

How can science and engineering help protect people from natural hazards?

-Finish Brainstorm

-Bubble Map

-Unit Challenge Scenario and Groups

-Extension Activity

Wednesday, November 18

How can science and engineering help protect people from natural hazards?:

Today, students will make the lists of natural hazards that they can think of, and we will identify several of these natural hazards to research answers to.  These natural hazards that we pick, will be from our list, but will NOT be natural hazards that we will be looking at in depth over the next several weeks (floods, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards).  This will give students the opportunity to look into some other natural disasters that we won't be covering in depth in class.  Students will be identifying the 4 things described below and sharing as part of a gallery walk.

Students will be working on iPads for about 20mins in small groups and

Identifying relationships including: 

i. The location of natural hazard events relative to geographic and/or geologic features. 

ii. Frequency of natural hazard events. 

iii. Severity of natural hazard events. 

iv. Types of damage caused by natural hazard events.

Students will add information to their group's whiteboard as they find it in their research.  We will finish the hour with a "gallery walk" of all groups' whiteboards.

I will also introduce the flood simulation, and what we will be using the models for tomorrow.

Thursday, November 19

How can we predict where a natural hazard like a flood will occur?

-Flood Simulation

-Models

Friday, November 20

How can we predict where a natural hazard like a flood will occur?

-Flooding

-Summary Table

-Exit Ticket