2. Academic Vocabulary
Natural Disaster: any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, and volcanic eruption
Earthquake: a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
Tsunami: an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
Volcano: a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled

3. What is a Natural Disaster?
Natural Disaster: any catastrophic event that is caused by naturally occurring forces.
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4. Understanding Natural Disasters Cont.
What does video describe?
Mobi and Tim talk about the different types of natural disasters.
What does video specifically talk about:
Tells us the names of natural disasters
What natural disasters do.
How each disaster is caused.

5. Understanding Natural Disasters Cont.
Now that we have noted that the video was trying to explain to us, we can use that information to create a main idea sentence:
Creating a Main Idea Sentence:
The brainpop video discussed natural disasters, what they look like and how they are caused.

6. Volcanic Eruption the sudden burst of steam and volcanic material
(for example: ash, lava, rocks, and gases)

7. Read the following Passage:
Volcanoes:
Read the following Passage:
Volcanic eruptions can be amazing — but deadly. A volcano is an opening in the earth's surface through which red-hot lava (melted rock) and gases spew into the air. Most volcanoes are located over large, rigid plates. These plates make up the earth’s surface. Sometimes they move toward each other and collide. This causes an earthquake very deep in the earth which can cause a volcano to erupt! Some eruptions have been so violent that entire towns have been wiped out, and thousands of people have died. In ancient Rome, a volcanic eruption destroyed the entire city of Pompeii (pahm-PAY) in 79 A.D. The word volcano comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. Volcanoes are found on every continent. The largest area of volcanoes is located along a belt known as the Ring of Fire, which circles the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire is an area of the Earth in which earthquake and volcanic eruptions are frequent. It consists of 452 volcanoes and resembles a belt. It is where 75% percent of all volcanoes are located.

8. Volcanoes Cont. Reading Notes: Main Idea Sentence:
Plates collide to create a volcano
All continents have volcanoes
75% of volcanoes can be found around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Some volcanoes are very destructive
Main Idea Sentence:
Two plates collide to create a volcano, all continents can have volcanos, but 75% of the worlds volcanoes can be found around the Pacific Ring of Fire, these volcanoes can be very destructive.

9. Tsunami
a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption

10. Impact of Tsunamis Japanese Tsunami: Description of Tsunami witness:
Description of Tsunami witness:
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Video Clip of Devastation:
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11. Checking for Understanding
Why did Time for Kids Publish this Article?
There article was publish to show the lasting effects of the Japanese Tsunami in Japan. This article identified resident fears and destruction that continues to occur in Japan a week after the Tsunami hit.
After Listening to the audio clip, seeing the destruction and thinking about the things the U.S. gets for Japan why do you think the Tsunami will have a global impact?
Yes, because the articles and audio clip state Japan is depend on the international community to rebuild.

12. Earthquake
a shaking of the earth, caused by the movement of tectonic plates or by volcanic activity

13. Impact of Earthquakes Read the following articles
Time for Kids Haiti: One Year Later
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Scholastic Haiti 2010:

14. Haiti Haiti 2010 Haiti 2011 Poorest nations in the world
Needs international aide
Hospitals were destroyed
5% of the ruble has been cleared away
100 Million from U.S. in aide, to clean rubble
Standard of living has gotten worse
Cholera
Haiti residents are still living in poverty

15. Earthquakes
After creating the graphic organizers take a minute to think about why both articles were writing. What does each article tell us about the Haitian earthquake and its lasting effects?
The articles explain the devastation that was caused by the earthquake. The earthquake created a worst living situation for an already improvised country and a year later nothing has changed. The earthquake continues to spread diseases in the country. It will take many years to rebuild and restore Haiti.

16. How to Natural Disasters Impact our lives?
1) They change the makeup of our environment.
2) Many lives can be lost.
3) It takes years to rebuild a country.
Main Idea Statement:
Natural disasters can destroy our environment, take the lives of those around us and rebuilding can be a long and difficult process.