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K. During a natural disaster, what is the best thing you can do at home? What should you have at home?
Make a family plan during an emergency. You should have an emergency kit available for these times.
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A. What is a hurricane? A tropical storm
How does it form? Over the ocean, picking up speed and strength as it moves over the water
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C. What is the most violent natural disaster? A tornado
Why? The rotating funnel-shaped clouds can do a lot of damage to large areas

How does it form? Over the ocean, picking up speed and strength as it moves over the water
What causes the damage? If it hits land, high winds and heavy rain can cause a lot of damage
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C. What is the most violent natural disaster? A tornado
Why? The rotating funnel-shaped clouds can do a lot of damage to large areas

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Reflection- Natural Disasters Lesson
Analyzing the Effectiveness of an Activity or Assignment
Teacher tool __ Student tool
Collect several samples of student work in response to an activity or assignment—home- work, a worksheet, project guidelines, or a problem to solve—that reflect the full range of student ability. Also gather any feedback you offered to students on their work. Answer the following questions to help you analyze the effectiveness of the assignment or activity.
1. What is the concept you intended your students to learn or explore?
Natural Disasters, and more specifically:
Students will name the natural disasters
Students will show how natural disasters happen
Students will show the cause and effect of natural disasters
2. How does this assignment fit with the prior and future learning of the class?
I believe that this assignment on natural disasters fit with the prior learning of the class because all of the “students” had either personal experiences with natural disasters or have had previous understanding of some that may have occurred in the world around them. The students were able to make real-life connections and make the lesson meaningful to them because they have had prior knowledge. For future learning of the class, I believe that this assignment fits because the students will be learning about some of the natural disasters more in depth, so this lesson will be put in their already build schema for those future lessons. When the students do move on throughout their educational journey, they will in no doubt be learning about the disasters, at least some, in more detail. They will be able to recall this lesson and use their prior knowledge to help and assist themselves through their learning. Also, because this was a lesson that showed the different disasters, almost acts like a social studies current event lesson, students will look back at what they have done the next time something devastating happens around the world.
3. Why did you decide to organize the assignment in this manner? That is, how does this approach advance student understanding?
The big thing from this lesson was the choice the students had in determining how to go about learning. They were given a quick activity to spark their background knowledge, and discuss their experiences with their peers. They were given a video that they were either able to listen to, watch, or read along with the closed captioning (or a combination of the three) if that is what they decided upon. The students were given an outline to help them in planning their notes as they watched the video, if they decided they needed that assistance. Finally, the students were able to chose how to present what they learned to the rest of their peers. I wanted to provide enough choice for each different learning style. That way, the students felt more comfortable in their learning and were able to really focus on the content being studied. There was a lot of collaboration in the discussions, the note posting and the final presentations. This helped the advance student learning because they were able to help one another. If one student missed something, they were able to see what their peers had gotten, and learn from them.
4. Consider the student work, both of the class as a whole and of those for whom you have samples. What does it tell you about their level of understanding? What does it say about their perseverance?
I think that all of the students were able to get the main points from the video into their notes. I also think that they were able to transform those notes into a presentation that showed they understood the different natural disasters, how they were created, and what effect they make. For the students perseverance, I almost feel as though most of the students chose to do the easier task for their final presentation, the wordle. I was hoping that I would have gotten a few different presentations, but all of the students were able to present what they learned in a new, unique way. No two wordles were the same. Some of the presentations had some spelling errors, which leads me to believe that they may have rushed through the assignment. One students in particular decided to do a Prezi as their presentation. This was one of the more time consuming choices, and I am very much appreciative that this student decided on that.
5. If you had the opportunity to make this same assignment again, would you do it in the same way? If you would alter it, explain why.
I think that one thing I might alter would be the presentation choices. I do not think that the wordle compared in time and effort to creating a Google presentation or a Prezi. I might take away the choice of the wordle all together, and keep the other presentation ideas. Other than that, I do feel pretty confident in my lesson and how I set it up. The directions were there, in detail. They were also there for the students to listen to if they did not want to read. I think that I was able to capture the many different learning styles into the one lesson and I also feel as though I was able to support recognition, affective and strategic learning.
6. Given the student work, what do you plan to do next with these students?
Something that I might do next with the students is a research project. I might encourage them to choose one of the disasters to research more in depth with. I would have them work in pairs and provide appropriate websites, reading materials, and videos that the students could use to find out more about their chosen disaster. I would encourage them to find out where in the world the most recent earthquake (for example) occurred, and what the effect of that disaster was. I would then have each group present to the rest of their peers what they found in a different way than in this lesson.
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