Natural Hazards outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. Like the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to meet the growing need to infuse real-world learning into K–12 classrooms.
This interdisciplinary module uses project- and problem-based learning to help young children explore cause and effect. Working in teams, your second graders will draw on science, English language arts, mathematics, social studies, and the engineering design process to do the following:
• Identify various natural hazards, their basic causes, and how they affect people, animals, and communities.
• Model natural hazards.
• Identify features of structures designed to withstand earthquakes and then construct models of those structures.
• Learn about predicting weather, including measuring, calculating, and evaluating numbers involved in probabilities.
• Create their own “Weather Tall Tales.”
• Identify ways that people and communities can prepare for natural hazards and then communicate about the hazards to a target audience.
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