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My Room is NOT a Disaster

Chris Bohne & Julie Dawson Stevenson Elementary Summer 2006

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USF34-040290-D DLC (b&w film neg.)

In this lesson students will view primary sources related to disasters. Students will identify 4 different disasters and select a primary source that best represents the disaster. With each primary source chosen students will list the name, date, and location of each of the disasters.

Overview/ Materials/LOC Resources/Standards/ Procedures/Evaluation/Rubric/Handouts/Extension

Overview Back to Navigation Bar Objectives Students will:  use primary sources  explain what a disaster is and isn’t  determine what all disasters have in common Recommended time frame 3 One hour lessons Grade level Third grade Curriculum fit Language Arts, Technology Materials  Copy of the Book The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room (see resource page)  Copy of the Book If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake (see resource page)  Copy of the Book Tornadoes: Disaster & Survival (see resource page)  Power Point  Comparing Disasters Worksheet  Comparing Disasters Student Checklist  Rubric

Illinois State Learning Standards Back to Navigation Bar STATE GOAL 5: Use the language arts to acquire, assess and communicate information.  5B. Analyze and evaluate information acquired from various sources.

An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University  5.B.1a Select and organize information from various sources for a specific purpose.

Procedures Back to Navigation Bar Day One:  Media Specialist will read the book The Berenstein Bears and the Messy Room.  Students will be shown the Power Point presentation on what is and is not a disaster in the computer lab.  Students and teacher will come up with a definition of disaster including the following key points:  Causes severe damage, injury, and possible loss of life.  Very costly to repair damage.  Known world wide. Introduce the concept of Primary Sources. Model how to access the Library of Congress website. Model how to search for Primary Sources in the American Memory section of the LOC.

Day Two: Read selected portions of If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake .  Review definition of a disaster.  Review the concept of Primary Sources.  Model how to access the Library of Congress website.  Model how to search for Primary Sources in the American Memory section of the LOC.  Model how to copy and paste images into the Comparing Disasters worksheet.  Explain directions for completing Comparing Disasters Worksheet.  Begin working on Comparing Disasters worksheet.

Day Three:  Read selections from Tornadoes: Disaster & Survival.  Introduce Comparing Disasters Student Checklist. Continue work on Comparing Disasters Worksheet. Allow students to share disaster Primary Sources. Discuss student responses to the “How are all disasters alike?” section of the Comparing Disasters Worksheet.

An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University Evaluation Back to Navigation Bar  To assess student understanding of Primary Sources the teacher will give examples and non examples of Primary Sources and ask students to give a “Thumbs up” if the example is a Primary Source, and a “Thumbs down” if the example is not a Primary Source.

 Students will be given a post it note and asked to write one example of a Primary Source and their name on the post it. As students exit Learning Center they will stick their note to the Learning Center marker board.  Student Comparing Disasters Checklist  Rubric for Comparing Disasters Worksheet Extension Back to Navigation Bar  Create a Venn Diagram comparing two/three disasters  Choose one disaster and design a poster showing facts and information about the disaster using Primary Sources.  Do a KWL worksheet about a disaster. Read a nonfiction book about the disaster and complete the KWL sheet.

An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University Primary Resources from the Library of Congress Back to Navigation Bar

Image/Resource Description Citation URL Headline describing New York Herald, http://www.loc.gov/ the Titanic disaster April 15, 1912 exhibits/treasures/tr in the New York Serial & m096.html Herald newspaper. Government Publications Division (53.1), Library of Congress Exhibitions

New England http://memory.loc.g hurricane. Barn in Library of ov/cgi-bin/query/r? Connecticut. Congress, Prints & ammem/fsaall:@fiel Photographs d(NUMBER+@ban Division, FSA-OWI d(fsa+8c02263)) Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC- USF35-1326

Panoramic picture Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.g of ruins of Pompeii Prints and ov/cgi-bin/query/r? Photographs Division ammem/pan:@field( [reproduction number, NUMBER+@band( pan 6a23839 pan+6a23839)) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc. pnp/pan.6a23839 LOC Prints and http://www.loc.gov/ Soothing her kitten, Photographs exhibits/young/imag a girl of Hickman Division es/y49-3c14377r.jpg Mills, LC-USZ62-114377 Missouri, sits in the (49) Grey Villet ruins of her home destroyed by a tornado, 1957 Copyprint of gelatin silver print

Before and After the Library of http://memory.loc.g Great Earthquake Congress, Motion ov/cgi-bin/query/r?

An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University and Fire: Early Picture, ammem/papr:@field Films of San Broadcasting, and (NUMBER+@band Francisco, 1897- Recorded Sound (lcmp003+03734s4) 1916 Division. lcmp003 ) 03734s1 03734s2 03734s3 03734s4 http://hdl.loc.gov/lo c.mbrsmi/lcmp003. 03734 Debris litters the U.S. Navy photo by http://images.google city of Meulaboh, Photographer's .com/imgres? Sumatra, Mate 3rd Class imgurl=http://www. Indonesia, Jennifer Rivera loc.gov/rr/scitech/Sc following the Dec. (RELEASED)., iRefGuides/images/ 2004 earthquake Science Reference debris.jpg&imgrefur and tsunami. Services, Library of l=http://www.loc.go Congress v/rr/scitech/SciRefG uides/naturaldisaster s.html&h=165&w= 250&sz=28&hl=en &start=1&tbnid=Gt xHjhxPq6TpuM:&t bnh=69&tbnw=106 &prev=/images %3Fq%3Dtsunami %2Bsite:loc.gov %26svnum %3D10%26hl %3Den%26lr%3D %26sa%3DG

View of World Gift of Thomas B. http://www.loc.gov/ Trade Center and Katherine B. exhibits/911/images towers, New York, Martin LOC Prints /01810r.jpg New York, with and Photographs tower #2 exploding Division (157) in a ball of fire after the September 11th terrorist attack, September 11, 2001. Inkjet print

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An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University Rubric Back to Navigation Bar

Student Name: ______

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1 Sources 4 Primary Sources 3 Primary Sources 2 Primary Sources 1 or no Primary shown. shown. shown. Sources shown.

Requirements All 4 Primary Source Most Primary Source Few Primary Source None of the Primary examples have name examples have name examples have name Source examples of disaster, date of of disaster, date of of disaster, date of have name of disaster, and location disaster, and location disaster, and location disaster, date of of disaster. of disaster. of disaster. disaster, and location of disaster.

Content Disaster comparison Disaster comparison Disaster comparison Disaster comparison section lists the three section lists two key section lists one key section lists no key key elements. elements. element. elements.

An Adventure of the American Mind Illinois State University Handouts Back to Navigation Bar

Student Comparing Disasters Checklist

Name ______Date ___/___/___

 Student has chosen 4 Primary Sources

 Each Primary Source has the correct name

 Each Primary Source has the correct date

 Each Primary Source has the correct location

 Student has listed at least 3 things all disasters have in common in the center section.