Ms. Gonzalez's 5th grade class was reading about Tsunamis in their science book, so she asked me to present information about how they happen. We explored an interactive website from NOVA that showed a time line and diagram of the December 26, 2004 Tsunami in the Indian ocean. The site showed where and how the tsunami started (it's epicenter), what the effect was in the open ocean, and what happened when the tsunami made landfall. We watched a short national geographic video clip with video of the tsunami making landfall, and a computer simulation of how the tsunami progressed. We looked at satellite photos of the coast of Thailand before and after the Tsunami. We reviewed what we had learned about tsunamis with a Wikipedia article. To reinforce a previous lesson on the circulatory and respiratory systems, and preview the other body systems they would be learning about, the students took a quia quiz on body systems. Their percentage of correct answers had improved from when they learned about the systems and took the quiz, two weeks earlier.
NOVA Tsunami Interactive:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/anatomy.html
National Geographic Tsunami Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JDzBTwiig
Singapore Satellite photos:
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/Khao_Lak_20041229_20030113/Khao_Lak_20041229_20030113.html
Tsunami wiki intro & characteristics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
Quia body systems quiz:
http://www.quia.com/rr/117725.html
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Labels: 5th Grade, Media Cart, NOVA, Wikipedia, Youtube
