Multidisciplinary Unit Studies: Natural Disasters
In this comprehensive and multisensory 169-page unit study, your children will explore earth science through a hands-on study of natural disasters. With over 78 activities and 20 experiments, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end. Each chapter includes multiple videos, hands-on activities, maps, experiments, readings, worksheets, charts, full-color high resolution graphics, and more to provide a multisensory approach to learning about our planet. In addition to science, relevant literature, math, history and language arts concepts are included. Each chapter also contains an exploration of how ancient or Native cultures viewed specific natural disasters as well as a focus on a specific earth science career. Expect to spend anywhere from 1-4 months completing this unit study, depending upon your pacing.
Take a peek inside:
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Tsunamis
- Landslides
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Wildfires
- Causes of natural disasters
- Predicting natural disasters
- Measuring natural disasters
- Locations of natural disasters
- Safety tips for natural disasters
- Historical views
- Earth's layers
- Tectonic plates
- Ring of Fire
- Geophysicists
- Volcanologists
- Seismologists
- Hurricane hunters
- Storm chasers
- Personal accounts
- Pompeii
- Hurricane Katrina
- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
- and much more!
All 78 activities in this unit study are laid out in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. But this unit study is not just a collection of web sites to read! It is much more than that! The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, and more.
At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That's why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, music, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!
