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The Earth's Landscape#156 Lesson PlanThe Earth's Landscape#156 Lesson Plan
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The Earth's Landscape#156

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Students define a word from the natural disaster list, find a location in the world where this type of disaster has occurred and discuss what they have identified. They design a crossword puzzle of natural disaster words or check a newspaper for a week to make a list of all the natural disaster words they can find.

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Grade
4th - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Instructional Strategy
Skills Practice
Year
1998

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