I Survived True Stories: 5 Epic Disasters

Why did Walter jump off the sled and return to the classroom?

• He forgot his homework.

• He wanted to get his football.

• He wanted to get a book to read.

• He forgot his perfume bottle.

The storm hit the prairie unexpectedly. Define: Prairie

• a large circulating funnel of wind

• a large open area of grassland

• a harbor wave

• a rocky, mountainous terrain

Cause and effect: Determine the direct cause of the nuclear disaster in Japan.

• An earthquake

• A tornado

• A tsunami

• A hurricane

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Why were so many students saved during the tsunami?

• The kids did exactly what the teachers told them to do, just as they had practiced in the drills.

• The students were tsunami experts and their quick thinking to get to even higher ground saved many lives.

• Many students died because they did not follow the rules.

• Students stayed at the school.

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Define eerie:

• Exciting and fun

• Cold and boring

• Cruel and unkind

• strange and frightening

The city was smoldering after the tsunami hit. Define: smoldering.

• Burning slowly with smoke but no flame.

• Bursting into flames.

• Scared or frightened.

• Covered in water.

Cause and Effect.

Cause:___________________

Effect: All of the students survived the tornado.

What was the cause that led to the students' survival?

• Students did not have school the day of the storm.

• The principal had them all stay at school.

• Students stayed outside during the storm because it was recess.

• The principal sent all of the students home.

There was debris all over the school after the Tornado hit. Define debris.

• Scattered pieces of waste, trash or remains.

• An organized classroom.

• Materials used to clean up a storm.

• A storm tracker system.

What is a tornado?

• A powerful snowstorm.

• A large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas.

• A violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.

• A large ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic explosion.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What did all three stories, The Children's Blizzard, The Henryville Torandoes, and the Japanese Tsunami all have in common?

• They were stories where kids made foolish decisions.

• They were all written about the same type of storm.

• They were all natural disasters.

• They were all written about events in New Jersey.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2