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Volcanoes Challenge Activities

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Challenge Activities- Volcanoes: Natures Incredible Fireworks

Day 1:

What verbs and adjectives do authors use to describe natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods?  How do these words affect how feel as you read about natural disasters?

1.   Make a list of verbs and adjectives authors use to describe natural disasters.

2.   Make a word web of verbs and a word web of adjectives.

3.   Choose three words from both webs and tell about a specific natural disaster.

Day 2:

What are similes and metaphors?  How can you use a simile or metaphor to describe a natural disaster? 

  1. Find 5 examples to complete a chart of “____is as ____as a ____ or “____is like a ____’ similes.

      2.   Search reference sources or the internet for keywords similes and metaphors to

            get information.

      3.   Make up your own simile and present your simile to the class.

http://www.brainpopjr.com/reading/language/similes/preview.weml

http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/sch/w/start/Metaphors_Similes.htm

Day 3:

What damage do natural disasters cause?  What effects do people have to deal with long after the disaster has occurred?

  1. Complete a cause and effect graphic organizer to identify damages caused by natural disasters.  One cause may have more than one effect, or one effect may in turn cause another thing to happen, creating a causal chain.

Cause and Effect organizer

Day 4:

Imagine you are the director of a disaster movie.  What questions would you ask the screenwriter about how to present the movie?

  1. Write six questions you would like to ask the screenwriter.  Your questions

should focus on what natural disaster the story describes, what damage the disaster causes,  and how the damage should be presented.

      2.   Describe a scene you would direct.

           

Day 5:

How can people protect themselves from disaster?

  1. Prepare a list of things to do to prepare for emergencies or disasters and what to do in case of an emergency or disaster.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/prepare/supply_kit.shtml

 

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