Natural Disaster Brochure Project

Today we chose topics for a brochure students will be creating about a natural disaster. At the start of class today, students chose a natural disaster they would like to learn more about. They then were able to search three separate instances of that disaster that they'd like to focus on for their research.

Some examples of topics and subtopics are:

Blizzards

1. Colorado Blizzard of 2003
2. 1972 Iran Blizzard
3. 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard

Hurricanes

1. Galveston Hurricane, 1900
2. South Florida Hurricane, 1928
3. Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Students should be ready to dive into the majority of their research and take notes in their Language Arts spiral notebook on Monday. The timeline for this project is as follows:

Monday & Tuesday, April 9 & 10 - Complete research on (3) subtopics
Wednesday, April 11 - Plan layout of brochure
Thursday & Friday, April 12-13 - Create brochure

The brochures must have nonfiction text features to enhance the reader's understanding of the topic. Students identified and reviewed nonfiction text features earlier this week.



Example completed brochure
Rubric for this project