Volcamos, Earthquakes and Tsunamis

This year was unusual in a good way, students had the opportunity to not only learn through textbooks, activities and multimedia but also to see concepts discussed in class occur in nature. At one point it got kind of weird because it seemed as though every time we discussed a topic in class within the week or so we would hear about it in the news. This made for interesting discussion and prayer. All of a sudden, Earth Science came off the pages of the textbook and history and became relevant. Students reported and saw live TV footage in class on the volcano erupting in Iceland, the Tsunami threat to Hawaii, the horrific earthquake in Haiti and Chile and lastly the recent oil spill. As part of their research assignment they brought into class the most interesting pictures and graphs describing what is happening in our Earth’s Environment and many of the pictures are posted in our classrooms bulletin board.

Mrs. Alvarado

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Topics: 10 Tenth Grade
Date: Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 7:55 am