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Natural Disasters Links for Research


KidRex Search
Discovery Education
National Geographic - Natural Disasters by Type
Library Online Resources
News for Kids - Severe Weather Links

Blizzards
How do blizzards form?
Blizzards
Winter Storms
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Floods

Learn all about Flooding

How Floods Form - National Geographic for Kids


Flooding article

Types of Flooding


Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes & Tsunamis

Earthquakes for Kids

Earthquakes 101

Earthquakes for Kids



Hurricanes

Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

What is a hurricane?

Hurricanes - National Geographic for Kids

​Brainpop- Hurricanes

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Volcanoes
Volcano Facts

Volcanoes 101- National Geographic

Volcano Facts for Kids

Volcano Explorer- Discovery Kids
 
What is a volcano?
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Droughts
Droughts for Kids
Drought- Ready.gov
How Droughts Work- video
Drought information for kids

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Tsunamis

Ahead of the Wave

Tsunami Facts for Kids

Tsunamis

Tsunami Questions

Tsunami Facts​



 Tornadoes
What is a tornado?

​Tornadoes - National Geographic for Kids

Weather for Kids - Tornadoes

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TFK Tells About Twisters

Famous Missourian Project


Hall of Famous Missourians

Missouri State Historical Society
  • Sample brochure
  • Informational Writing
  • Sample Facebook
Interactive Missouri Timeline

Missouri Symbols

Create your Fakebook here.


Biography Projects

You have worked so hard on your informational writing.  Click on the links below to read other biographies that classmates have written about famous Missourians.

Jane Froman

Cal Hubbard

Stan Musial

Daniel Boone
Ella Ewing

Josephine Baker

Mark Twain

Vinnie Ream

Walt Disney - JM
Walt Disney - AS

Stan Musial- CE









Christmas Around the World Resource Page

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When doing research, it’s important to use lots of resources.  For this project, you will want to use web resources as well as articles and books. 

  • Use tips Mrs. Custard has taught you in library and what you’ve learned from reading non-fiction. 



Valley Park Library Resources – Access Grolier online or other websites to search

The Holiday Spot
- Links to celebrations for each country

Christmas Around the World
- Click for a list of countries and their information

Santa/St. Nicholas -links to info about "Santa"

Holidays around the World - Infographic

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Final Project

You will use all of this information to create a newspaper about your country.  Your newspaper can be done on the computer or written by hand.  It MUST be done by Dec. 18th.

Create your newspaper here


The newspaper should include:

*Title
*Headings
*Pictures with captions
*News article describing your country
*News article describing their holidays

Extras you may include if you have time:
       --Map outline of the country
       --Flag
       --Recipe
       --Craft
       --Did you know?




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