1. PBL How has weather contributed to poverty and hunger? Mrs. Ibarra 1 st Grade

2. What is weather? Weather is how it feels outside. What is the weather today?

3. Hurricane A hurricane is a big storm that comes for days. The storm brings a lot of rain, very violent winds.

4. How would it be if rained for days and days and everything flooded? What would happen to our toys that were outside? What would happen to out homes if the water went into out homes? What if the water flooded our homes? What would happen to all out stuff?

5. Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a huge storm! It brought a lot of rain and made water from the ocean leak into the city. Many houses were flooded and thousands of people lots of lost everything they had!

6. Here are some pictures of what happens during a Hurricane

8. Hurricane Katrina hit the state of Louisiana

9. People in Louisiana lost everything! They lost: Homes- Clothing- Food- Dogs- Family members-

14. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lumYgRTUD 8w

15. Lets talk… How did this storm make people in Louisiana hungry and poor?

16. SOMALIA

17. What is weather? Weather is how it feels outside. What is the weather today?

18. Africa

19. Somalia is a country in the continent of Africa

20. What is the weather like in Somalia? DROUGHT

21. How does weather affect the lives of the people and animals? It is so dry and hot that people/animals do not have enough water. Crops (food grown to eat) are dried out by the hot hot sun.

22. How does the weather affect poverty and hunger? Because the crops are not growing, people who make money off of selling them become poor. The lack of water kills the animals that people eat like cows, chickens and pigs. Animals that are alive are usually not healthy enough to eat.

23. Housing in Somalia

24. Lets watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fioZzbfuw &feature=channel

25. Lets talk… How does this dry weather or drought make people in Somalia hungry and poor?