Project Title: Wild Weather
Mission:
How can we protect ourselves and others by reducing the impact of natural disasters?
Culminating / Take Action Project
Create an interactive exhibit that educates others about natural disasters.
What Kids Learn
In this project, students learn about different types of wild weather and natural disasters. They’ll learn how maps can help us understand geographical features and patterns that make locations prone to certain kinds of natural disasters. Students will explore some of the harmful effects caused by such events, such as the natural processes of weathering and erosion. They’ll learn about ways they can protect themselves and others by building an emergency supply kit and learning some basic safety rules. Students will also explore ways that scientists and engineers are designing innovative solutions to reduce the harmful effects caused by natural disasters.
Overview
Life Habit Focus: Kinship
Subject: Earth Science, ELA
Grade: 3-5
Topic: Extreme weather and natural disasters, weathering and erosion, design solutions, interactive exhibits.
Project preview
Project Materials
Project Module
Student Notebook
Teacher's Guide
Materials List
Virtual Field Trips
Jennifer Walton
In this module, students meet Jennifer Walton, a storm chaser and founder of the organization, Girls Who Chase. Jennifer will teach students about the work that storm chasers do and the tools they use to conduct their work.
Karima Grant
In their Take Action Project, students meet Karima Grant, the founder and executive director of ImagiNation Afrika. Karima will teach students how to create an engaging interactive exhibit to teach others about important topics.
Aligned Standards
Common Core Reading (CCSS):
- Informational/Nonfiction Standards R.I. 1-10 for grades 3-5
- Reading Literacy Standard L 5 & 6 for grades 3-5
- Writing Standards W. 1,4,5 for grades 3-5
- Listening and Speaking Standards SL. 1-6 for grades 3-5
NGSS Standards:
Performance Expectations (PE):
- 4-ESS2-1. Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
- 4-ESS2-2. Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
- 4-ESS3-2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
- 3-ESS3-1. Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
Science and Engineering Practices (SEP):
- Planning and carrying out investigations.
- Make observations and/or measurements to produce data.
- Analyze and interpret data.
- Generate and compare multiple solutions.
Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI):
- ESS2.A: Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.
- ESS2.B: The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features areas of Earth.
- LS4.C Adaptation: For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
- ESS3.B: A variety of hazards result from natural processes (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions). Humans cannot eliminate the hazards but can take steps to reduce their impacts.
Crosscutting Concepts (CC):
- Cause and effect: Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change.
- Patterns: Patterns can be used as evidence to support an explanation.
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