Natural Disasters

The students have spoken, and we are on our final ELA unit of the year.  They had the choice between learning about the rainforest or natural disasters, and well, they chose to learn about natural disasters! 

This entails the following: 

Students are learning about hurricanes and earthquakes more in-depth, as well as learning critical reading skills along the way.  They are learning how to paraphrase informational texts, learning the academic and scientific vocabulary along the way, learning how to understand the structure within informational texts (like cause/effect), they are writing a research report on a natural disaster, and we are tying science into this as well!  Part of science is that students need to understand the different systems in the Earth and how they work together, what a more perfect way to learn these systems!