Natural Disaster Research and Poster Project

Students will love the chance to research natural disasters and then creatively display what they learned with this Natural Disaster Poster Project!

Included are unique research packets that will help students organize information they gather from books or online resources on 10 natural disasters. Packets will contain questions that ask disaster definitions, cause/effects, locations, ways to measure, safety precautions, interesting facts, and a famous disaster. Packets are divided into 4 sections with 3-4 questions per section to make it easy to manage.

Types of natural disasters include: hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, blizzards, droughts, wildfires, tsunamis, and landslides.

Also included are "Words to Know" half sheets with 10-20 vocabulary words per disaster. These are words that students should be watching for as they research!

After the students have finished research, they will use their packets to create an eye-catching poster! Included is a letter to send home with instructions as well as a grading rubric. The rubric also focuses heavily on the use of nonfiction text elements including title, headings, photographs, captions, diagrams/charts, and bold vocabulary words.

Supplementary materials included:

- Mini Posters (quarter page or half page) with natural disaster photograph and
definition for classroom use

- Activity Pages for morning work or early finishers ... matching, fill in the blank,
crossword puzzle, and word search

** Check out my Natural Disaster Concentration Game for a fun addition to your unit! Perfect for a science center!