Earthquakes lesson

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Today's lesson contains reading the book all About Earthquakes (A True Book: Natural Disasters)

  • read pages X-X ( 14 pages )

  • after reading the pages, have the students discuss as pairs and discuss to the class one of the four questions ( you/I can write these questions on the board or have them on the projector.

  1. what is an earthquake?

  2. what is a fault?

  3. what causes an earthquake?

  4. How do earthquakes cause damage? (20-25 mins)

Watch this video before the document

  • at the end ask questions about what was disscussed

  • have class answer individually

( 10 mins )

Vocabulary Features and Layers of Earth.docx

Students will pick a construction paper

  • have scissors passed out after passing out both papers

Students will cut the vocab worksheet, and glue it onto the construction paper.

this will later be turned in to the teacher when finished.