Take several of these Natural Disaster Quizzes.

Which was the hardest? Which was the easiest?

What was the most interesting thing you learned from them?

Go to Phreetings. You can search for a photo that would illustrate a short report you would write about a natural disaster. It’s basically a report on a virtual “postcard.”

Post the link in the comments section.

Choose a few sentences from one of the websites under Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Then go to one of these online drawing sites:

Flash Paint

Imagination Cubed

Draw a picture of what the text makes you see in your mind. Include the text either in the drawing itself or next to the link you post in the comments section.

Go to the Natural Disasters section of Mr. Ferlazzo’s website. Click on any of the links you find there that look interesting.

In the comments section here, write five things you learned and five questions about things you’d like to learn more about. Also, please include which website or websites you visited.

Go to Doodle or Yarp and come up with a survey question (and two or more answers) related somehow to Natural Disasters.

Put the link to your survey question in the comments section so other students can respond.

Please go to Survive Anything: Your Ultimate Guide To Disaster.

What are the three most interesting things you learned from that resource? Why was each one so interesting to you?

Look at this slideshow on The World’s Worst Natural Disasters.

After you watch the slideshow, please write three questions in the comments section about things related to the disasters that you’d like to learn more about…

Create a crossword puzzle using information about Natural Disasters, and put the link in the comments section.

Try to use information from what we’ve learned in class or from the Natural Disasters section on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website.

Please write a short report that goes with a slideshow you create about natural disasters. You can make a slideshow that is about a kind of natural disaster — avalanche, volcano, flood, earthquake, drought, etc — or one about a specific disaster — Katrina, the recent Chinese earthquake, the San Francisco earthquake, etc.

You can make as many slideshows as you want.

Use either Bookr. You can also go to Natural Disasters on Mr. Ferlazzo’s website to find information for your report. Please try to use your own words.

Copy and paste the link to your slideshows in the comments section.

This picture shows someone trying to rescue a victim of the 2008 earthquake in China.  If you were that victim, how do you think you would feel and why?  If you were the rescuer, how do you think you would feel and why?