Exploring

1. Choose

or ...

that has that has changed the Earth’s physical features...

Then, teach us about this event...

Research and gather enough relevant information to teach us

what we need to know to understand this event,

explain the who, what , when, where, why & How

Here are some possible options to be the focus of this Inquiry:

NATURAL DISASTER

North American Ice Storm (1998)

Japan Earthquake (2011)

Haiti earthquake (2010)

India (Kashmir Earthquake) (2005)

Hurricane Katrina (new Orleans) (2005)

South Asian Tsunami (2004)

Hurricane Sandy (2012)

Oklahoma City tornado (2013)

Alberta Floods (2013)

Goderich Ontario Tornado (2011)

Java Indonesia Earthquake (2006)

BC avalanches (2008)

Swine Flu H1N1 (2009)

Hurricane Felix (2007)

Hurricane Matthew (2016)

Fort McMurry Wild Fires (2016)

Montreal Floods (2017)

Mexican Earthquake (2017)

Hurricane Florence (2018)

Ottawa-Gatineau tornado (2018)

MAN-MADE ACTIVITY

Bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (1945)

Chernobyl (1986)

9-11 (2001)

Boston Bombing (2013)

BP Oil spill

Exxon Valdez ship wreck

Gulf War

Kuwait Oil field fires

California Fire started by Teens

Gyre Garbage patch

Love Canal

Randle Reef

Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

3- Mile Island

Shrinking of the Aral Sea

Great London Smog of 1952

Lac-Megantic rail disaster

Humbolt Broncos Bus crash

2. Once we know what has happened,

tell us how your event has left a...

a) a social consequence?

For example: people/ families/deaths/diseases/ injuries

b) a political consequence?

For example: Gov. response, local or Federal, Police response

c) an environmental consequence?

For example: Long & short term effects, destroyed farm lands lands, air pollution,...?

d) an economic consequence?

For example: Cost of damages, effects on Sm. & Lg Business, loss of work for the people

for the part of the world this event occurred.