Theme: |
Earthquakes
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Grades: |
K - 2
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts
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Duration: |
One class period
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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.
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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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