Learning about Earthquakes in …If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine

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Theme:

Earthquakes

Grades:

K - 2

Subject:

Reading and Language Arts

Duration:

One class period

Standards
& Goals:

Florida State Standards

  • The student will listen to, read and discuss both familiar and conceptually challenging text. 
  • The student will retell important facts from a text heard or read.

Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.

Objectives:

Students will:

  • Read …If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine.
  • Define an earthquake.
  • Identify what item or items are so valuable that they would try to save them in the event of an earthquake.
  • Discuss the differences between a natural disaster in 1906 and one in the current time.
  • Retell important events of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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