Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate community hazard examples by collecting observations and evidence about weather, erosion, drought, heat waves, and severe storms.
Students will be able to analyze simple geoscience data to explain how natural hazards, natural resources, and climate affect human activity in a community.
Students will be able to design and test a small model that shows how a community can reduce damage from flooding, erosion, or strong wind.
Students will be able to interpret patterns in weather and climate evidence to make a short-term forecast about possible local hazard impacts.
Students will be able to justify a community safety recommendation using model results, data tables, labeled sketches, and source notes.
Products
Hazard Investigation Notebook
Students create a guided research notebook with notice-and-wonder notes, labeled sketches, simple data tables, trial records, and a short personal conclusion. It shows how each student used evidence to study one hazard and evaluate a possible community response.
Community Hazard Safety Recommendation Poster and Model
Teams build and test a small hazard model and present a poster or slide that explains their shared findings, evidence, limitations, and safety recommendation. The product must clearly show how individual observations were combined into one evidence-based community solution.
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