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Natural Disasters Worksheets and Hands-On Activity Ideas

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Our Natural Disasters Packet has notebook pages and worksheets as well as some hands-on activity ideas covering the following events:

• Hurricane, cyclone, typhoon

In this packet you’ll find one page on each of these events. Often, natural disasters occur because of geologic changes or extreme weather conditions. Students explore the cause of each of these events.  They also find out what  damage results and examines the effect these disasters have on people, property, and infrastructure. Students fill in their own information about each natural disaster, what causes it, and give an example of a recent event and what effect it had on the community.

A number of years ago, we did some fun hands-on activities to help the kids understand what natural disasters are and why they can be so devastating.  These activities are buried deep in our blog, though, and I thought I would share some of them with you again today! They are also in the Natural Disasters Packet above.

These are activities we did when the kids were about PreK and early elementary:

 Mudslide: We mixed sand and cornstarch and covered a butter container container. Then we made it “rain” for a period of time to see what happened!

At the time, we watched the National Geographic you-tube video on hurricanes:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9VpwmtnOZc

Tsunamis are generally caused by an underwater earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption.

Natural Disasters Lapbook: You can use the interactive notebook pieces provided in this packet to create your own lapbook.

There are a couple of natural disaster worksheets as well (one is a matching page, the other is blank so the kids can write in the answer):

Here’s Amazon’s description: revealing the speed of a twister , the power of a hurricane , the lethal force of a lightning bolt , the instant devastation of a flood , or the explosive punch of a volcano . Feel what it’s like to be inside a house when a storm rips the roof off, when a cloud of volcanic ash overtakes you, or what a street sign picked up by a tornado would do to your car window. This is Nature at it s wildest and most furious.

Recently, I added in some new interactive notebook pages and blank notebook pages. My kids are actually using these for their foreign language practice (writing sentences to describe the pictures).  🙂  Hope it’s helpful for you too!

This packet now comes with our Clouds, Winds & Weather Packet . See more details about that here .

Don’t forget to check your PayPal email address for the download link!

Feel free to email me if you have any questions! ~Liesl

Floods, mudslides, tsunami, hurricanes, blizzards, drought, wildfires – This packet does not cover earthquakes, volcanoes, plate movement or the ring of fire because we covered that in great detail in our Earth Science Packet. More details of the Natural Disaster Packet here . image 1 , image 2

You may be interested in some of these related packets:

See the Earth Science BUNDLE Options here .

Here is more about our Earth Science Unit!

This 100+ page Earth Science Packet (now well over 100 pages actually because we recently added new materials on plate tectonics and more!) includes worksheets about the solar system, the layers of the Earth, plate tectonics, the ring of fire, earthquake activity and volcanoes. I also included instructions for more than a dozen hands-on activities we did with this unit. This includes activities about plate tectonics, Pangaea, using a compass, earthquakes, volcanoes,  instructions on how to make a shake table and more!

You may be interested in some of our related packets:

Earth Science Unit : In this unit, we talked about the layers of the Earth, latitude & longitude, tectonic plate movement (and did a couple of great hands-on activities related to that), earthquakes (we made an earthquake shake table), mountain making, volcanoes (we did a couple of fun hands-on activities) and more

Layers of the Atmosphere Packet & Hands-On Activities

You might also be interested in our Place Value Materials and Pirate Math Packet. This post also has a video that explains how we did our place value activities.

P.S. You might be interested in these free Homeschool Resource Guides:

Creating Your Own Homeschool Curriculum: These are some resources I made that might be helpful as you create your own homeschool plans.  These are somewhere between 30 and 50 pages and are FREE to download:

• Creating a Homeschool Curriculum: Kindergarten – Grade 1

• Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum: Grades 2-3, Resource Guide

• Creating Your Homeschool Curriculum Grade 4-5 — Free Resource Guide

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• Science Units: We absolutely ♥ love hands-on science activities. We do a lot of science experiments as we do our science units.  You might find something useful here:

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• Language Arts — We have tons of free grammar pages on things like comma rules, their/they’re/there and more.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links in this post are affiliate links, and at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase.

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thank you so much its a good help for teachers

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I had seen this lesson on various school blogs using Nick Rowland’s explosive volcano artwork as inspiration for students to produce their own using some of his techniques.

LEARNING INTENTIONS:

To respond to a volcano artwork by UK artist Nick Rowland.

To make an artwork of a volcano using techniques explored in Nick Rowland’s work.

SUCCESS CRITERIA :

I identify materials and techniques used in an artwork.

I can use materials and techniques with paint such as splattering, flicking, dripping, blowing etc to capture the explosive nature of a volcano inspired by Nick Rowland artwork.

I can describe the process, materials & techniques used in my own volcano artwork

Explore & respond :

Students first explored his use of materials and techniques by brainstorming and listing how they think he applied the paint to get various effects. Seesaw example of student response >

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I am a primary school Art teacher in Melbourne, Australia. I have been teaching Art as a specialist teacher for 14+ years and I love researching artists and their artworks to inspire students. I am sharing my lesson and unit plans and student artwork examples with other art teachers. My instagram account: @primary_school_art features current projects, many of which will be made into a blog post and lesson plan. View all posts by Liz

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Natural Disasters Tornado Art lesson- shading focus

Subject: Art and design

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Other

Last updated

13 November 2018

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