Nature’s Fury WebQuest

1. Nature’s Fury WebQuest 5th grade WebQuest for Communication Arts Author: Michelle Woolsey TEC 942 Final Project Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources

2. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Introduction • Welcome Adventure Seekers! Your mission is to seek out and understand nature's wild forces. Should you choose to accept the challenge, your goal is to inform other natural disaster thrill seekers of the natural phenomenon of volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes. Using your informational writing skills, you will create a brochure that details the following key questions: • How and why does the event occur? • What are key locations in the world where the disasters are prevalent and why? • What important safety measures can one follow if they re ever in nature's fury? • Looking back in time, what are major disasters and what can we learn from them to help us in the future?

3. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Task • Your task is to research, design, and create an informational brochure and pictorial display for other thrill seekers such as yourselves. Using your highly defined writing skills, your brochure will contain information • how and why natural events occur • locate key hotspots in our geography for events • discuss key safety measures to take if caught in a precarious situation • report major historical natural disasters to see how we can learn from the past • To design and create your informational brochure, you will use a template from Microsoft Word. • Be safe and careful, but go forth and do not delay!

4. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process • As a team, select the natural force you want to research. Click on the picture representing your group’s choice. Tornadoes Hurricanes Earthquakes Volcanoes

5. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process: Tornadoes • Next, select the key role you as an individual will play in the WebQuest from the following roles: • Geologist: surveys the how and why of the event. In addition, describes and discusses different types of event. • Geographer: locates key hotspots on our Earth’s surface to show patterns • Safety Manager: implements key safety precautions and plans to follow if ever in an event (How to Survive Guide) • Case Study Manager: analyzes key historical disasters to see how we can learn from our past • Print the graphic organizer for the role of your choice below. Each group must have each role represented! Geologist Geographer Safety Manager Case Study Manager

6. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process: Hurricanes • Next, select the key role you as an individual will play in the WebQuest from the following roles: • Geologist: surveys the how and why of the event. In addition, describes and discusses different types of event. • Geographer: locates key hotspots on our Earth’s surface to show patterns • Safety Manager: implements key safety precautions and plans to follow if ever in an event (How to Survive Guide) • Case Study Manager: analyzes key historical disasters to see how we can learn from our past • Print the graphic organizer for the role of your choice below. Each group must have each role represented! Geologist Geographer Safety Manager Case Study Manager

7. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process: Volcanoes • Next, select the key role you as an individual will play in the WebQuest from the following roles: • Geologist: surveys the how and why of the event. In addition, describes and discusses different types of event. • Geographer: locates key hotspots on our Earth’s surface to show patterns • Safety Manager: implements key safety precautions and plans to follow if ever in an event (How to Survive Guide) • Case Study Manager: analyzes key historical disasters to see how we can learn from our past • Print the graphic organizer for the role of your choice below. Each group must have each role represented! Geologist Geographer Safety Manager Case Study Manager

8. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process: Earthquakes • Next, select the key role you as an individual will play in the WebQuest from the following roles: • Geologist: surveys the how and why of the event. In addition, describes and discusses different types of event. • Geographer: locates key hotspots on our Earth’s surface to show patterns • Safety Manager: implements key safety precautions and plans to follow if ever in an event (How to Survive Guide) • Case Study Manager: analyzes key historical disasters to see how we can learn from our past • Print the graphic organizer for the role of your choice below. Each group must have each role represented! Geologist Geographer Safety Manager Case Study Manager

9. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process • As a team, write a rough draft your portion of the brochure. Remember to include titles, captions, headings and illustrations as a part of the informational writing. • Please refer to the additional resources section of the quest for interactive webbing tools, essay maps, informational on paragraph writing, and other graphic organizer such as the hamburger form to aid you in the writing process. • Have two other members of your class edit your portion of the brochure using the checklist printed from below. Click on the icon on the bottom of screen • Meet with the teacher as a final review before completing the final product. • Use Microsoft Word and the brochure templates available to create your final product. Each student may work individually and then cut and paste to put the final product together.

10. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process Cont. Process: Tornadoes • Using your chosen role and graphic organizer, use the resources listed below to find information for your part of the brochure. • Tornado Resources: • Discovery Channel Extreme Weather Tornado • FEMA for Kids –Tornadoes • Tornado Project Online • Weather Wiz Kids: Tornadoes

11. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process Cont. Process: Volcanoes • Using your chosen role and graphic organizer, use the resources listed below to find information for your part of the brochure. • Volcano Resources: • Discovery Channel Interactive Volcano • FEMA for Kids –Volcanoes • Volcano World • Interactive: Volcanoes

12. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process Cont. Process: Earthquakes • Using your chosen role and graphic organizer, use the resources listed below to find information for your part of the brochure. • Earthquake Resources: • Earthquake Ready Checklist • USGS Earthquakes for Kids • Earthquakes and Hazards Program • FEMA: Earthquake

13. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Process Cont. Process -Hurricanes • Using your chosen role and graphic organizer, use the resources listed below to find information for your part of the brochure. • Hurricane Resources: • FEMA: Hurricanes • WebWeather for Kids: Hurricanes • NWS: National Hurricane Center • Stormpulse • Weather Wiz Kids- Hurricanes

14. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Evaluation • You will be evaluated as an individual for your contributions and product for the brochure. • A rubric will be used to score both the content and style of the brochure as well as a rubric for the informational writing throughout each section of the brochure. • Please Print one copy of each rubric for the project. Make sure to complete the top portion of each rubric. Content and Style Rubric Informational Writing Rubric

15. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Conclusion • Congratulations! You have successfully become experts on your natural disasters, and your valuable informational brochures will benefit many thrill seekers in the future! • To continue your learning and interest in the area of Nature’s Fury, you have several options to chose to explore… • Connect the information you researched to your own life experiences. Write a narrative story showing what you learned in your own experiences. • Wild about weather or natural events, choose a new event to research. Create a poster to display the interesting facts you found. • Think about weather or natural events in our own area, make a plan of action for our school using research you gather.

16. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Credits • Images: • Google Images • Microsoft Word Clipart • Books: • Kagan’s Cooperative Learning • Websites Referred to During Creation of my Quest • Rubistar.4teachers.org • PA assessment standards • Questgarden.com • Webquest.sdsu.edu • ReadWriteThink.org • Special Thanks and Recognition: • To my professor George Smith of Fresno Pacific State University as well as the wealth of knowledge gleaned from Bernie Dodge and Tom March concerning WebQuests.

17. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Writing Resources: • Below you will find webbing tools, essay maps, interactive guides, paragraph writing information, and graphic organizers to help with the writing process. • ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool • ReadWriteThink Essay Map • How to Write a Good Paragraph • Hamburger Graphic Organizer

18. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • PA Standards Addressed: • 1.2.5.E Students read, understand and respond to informational text • 1.4.5.B Students will write multi-paragraph informational pieces (e.g., essays, descriptions, letters ,reports, instructions). • 1.5.5.A-E Students will write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content incorporating focus, content, organization, style, and conventions in all aspects of writing. • 1.8.5.B Students Conduct inquiry and research on self selected or assigned topics using a variety of teacher guided media sources and strategies.

19. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Objectives: • Students can work cooperatively by fulfilling their role requirements as part of the coop group. • Students can conduct research and analyze information. • Students can write informational paragraphs, headings, subheadings, and captions for their brochures. • Students can follow the writing process used in class. • Students can organize and design a well written and informational brochure. • Materials: • Nature’s Fury WebQuest • Computer Access

20. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Materials: • Resources (Listed under the Process Section of Quest) • Microsoft Word Template for Brochure • Graphic Organizer and Rubrics (located within the Quest) • Procedure: • (The WebQuest will follow the key instruction on informational writing. Students at this point are familiar with how to write informational paragraphs. However, resources are included with the WebQuest if needed.) • As a team, select the natural force you want to research. We have read stories about each in our Nature’s Fury literature unit. You may select from tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, or earthquakes. • You will use the Nature’s Fury WebQuest to research and design an informational brochure about the natural event.

21. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Procedure: • Next, select the key role you as an individual will play in the WebQuest from the following roles: • Geologist: surveys the how and why of the event. In addition, describes and discusses different types of event. • Geographer: locates key hotspots on our Earth’s surface to show patterns • Safety Manager: implements key safety precautions and plans to follow if ever in an event (How to Survive Guide) • Case Study Manager: analyzes key historical disasters to see how we can learn from our past • Print the graphic organizer for the role of your choice below. Each group must have each role represented!

22. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Procedure: • Using the resources listed under your natural event, conduct research for your portion of the brochure. You also want to include maps, pictures, diagrams as needed. You may save them to your document folder. Make sure to credit the source. • As a team, write a rough draft your portion of the brochure. Remember to include titles, captions, headings and illustrations as a part of the informational writing. • Please refer to the additional resources section of the quest for interactive webbing tools, essay maps, informational on paragraph writing, and other graphic organizer such as the hamburger form to aid you in the writing process. • Have two other members of your class edit your portion of the brochure using the checklist printed from below.

23. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Procedure: • Meet with the teacher as a final review before you complete the final product. • Use Microsoft Word to design the brochure. There are templates available for brochure making. Your may individually type and design your columns and then cut and paste into the final product. • Print and display multiple copies of the brochure for the rest of the groups to review and provide feedback to as well. • Complete a “Carousel Feedback” of all the other groups in the classroom. Please give 2 to 3 positive pieces of information to each group on the poster next to the brochures.

24. Nature’s Fury WebQuest Introduction Task Process Evaluation Conclusion Credits Additional Resources Additional Resources • Lesson Plan: Nature’s Fury (Continued) • Grade Level: 5th grade Communication Arts Class • Evaluation: • Students will provide feedback using the “Carousel Feedback structure from Kagan’s Cooperative Learning. • Students will also be graded individually on the content and style of the brochure as well as the informational writing included in the brochure (The rubrics are included in the quest).