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Natural Disasters Theme Unit

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Theme Units
     Earthquakes
     Hurricanes
     Tsunami
     Volcanoes
     Weather

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Short Reading Comprehensions
Very Quick Readers
     Tsunami: What a Wave! (Very Quick Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)
     Red Alert: Volcanoes (Very Quick Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)

Short Readers
     Twist and Shout: A Tornado is Coming! (Short Reader; Grades 4-6 Readability)

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Reading Comprehensions
     What Are Earthquakes? (Grades 2-4)
     Natural Disasters: Disasters or Blessings? (Grades 5-7)
     Water, Water Everywhere: Furious Floods (Grades 5-7)

Historical Events
     Big, Black Blizzards! (Grades 1-3)
     The Day Ash Fell (Grades 2-3)
     Black Blizzards and the Dust Bowl (Grades 4-6)
     The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 (Grades 5-7)
     The Big Burn of 1910 (Grades 5-7)
     The Dust Bowl (Grades 5-7)
     Mount St. Helens Blows Her Top (Grades 5-7)
     The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens (Grades 5-7)
     The San Francisco Earthquake (Grades 6-8)
     The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 (Grades 6-8)
     The Dust Bowl (Grades 6-8)
     The 1993 Storm of the Century (Grades 6-8)
     The 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak (Grades 6-8)
     The Long Island Express: The New England Hurricane of 1938 (Grades 7-9)
     The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 (Grades 7-9)
     Hurricane Katrina, August 2005 (Grades 7-9)

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Read and Color

Ten of America's Worst Disasters

Stormy Weather: Natural Disasters

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Reading Comprehensions - Foreign Languages
Spanish
     El día que cayó ceniza (grades 2-3)

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Book Units
    The People of Sparks: The Second Book of Ember (Grades 5-7)

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Quizzes
     Natural disasters Quiz - vocabulary, true/false, and multiple choice (Grades 3-6)
     Edit and customize the natural disasters quiz (Grades 3-6)

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