Flooding

This activity was created using one of the scaffolded writing templates from the Learning Magic, Inc The Writing Bin CD .

With the recent flooding natural disaster that struck Washington State I had the great privilege of working in some of the rescue processes in the most severely hit counties and towns.

In the aftermath, I used a number of the photos I took to build this activity which I used to help students understand the basics of the water cycle and how floods occur through the process of water run off.

After reading about flooding and its causes, children then have the assignment of inserting a number of pictures on the following pages and write about floods/flooding in their own words.

Note, this activity is built upon the template with the largest amount of writing support, so students can simply click on words off of toolbars to insert nouns, verbs and adjectives.

I have found that the kids not only like looking at the photos and movies in the activity but also writing about the event using pictures that were actually taken in and around the disaster zone.

This activity was built in Classroom Suite v. 3.2. The activity can be run on the ITAN Player. But IntelliPics Studio 3® is needed to perform data capture, automatic grading and portfolio management, as well as any editing or changes to the activity itself.