NATURAL DISASTERS: Wildfire Vocabulary & Quiz Bundled products

Vocabulary skill building and assessment for words and concepts associated with forest fires.

This product is a fun and easy way to teach your students the academic terms needed to successively read and comprehend articals written about wild fires. In addition to a colorful slide show introducing each term, there are several fun worksheets for added vocabulary practice, and web links to articals and videos on the topic. To assess student comprehension, a vocabulary slide show quiz with answers is included as a second presentation.

Forest fires are becoming more extensive, deadly and expensive every year. It is imperative for our students to be able to read and understand the scope of the problem confronting our world. This means that they need to know the specialized vocabulary concerning wildfires. Most students know and understand the general words and concepts, but with all subjects there is a specialized vocabulary used when writing, speaking and reporting on major wildfires.

This presentation is geared for quickly frontloading the vocabulary and concepts your students will encounter in the texts on forest fires. Each word and concept is paired with the definition, part of speech, at least one photograph, and then used in a sentence. The words are presented alphabetically and are paired with a handout for writing down the definition and example sentence.

To further aid in practicing the new vocabulary, there are several worksheets included with the product. Each of them comes with an easy to read answer key.

A page with You-Tube links to wildfires from around the world, could be used for independent research or shown in-class.

To assess vocabulary acquisition there is also a fun power point quiz, that may be given either independently or whole class. The answers follow directly after the final question.

In the Presenter’s Notes, there are explanations as to why certain answers are preferred over the other choices.

Product format:

PowerPoint Show made with Microsoft 8.1

Features include: slide sorter, laser pointer, digital pen, high lighter, and presenter’s notes. This makes it possible to add or highlight notes directly onto the slides. It is possible to check out these features on the preview, by right clicking on the screen. A tool box will appear so that you can experiment with the various tools. To leave the presentation at anytime press the ‘Escape’ key. Duplicate presentations for printing are in a PDF format.

*Due to copyright piracy, all of Ms. Amy’s Lessons are not editable. This means that it is both difficult and time consuming to alter the presentations.

Contents:

2 PowerPoint Shows

-1 for the vocabulary terms and concepts (39 slides)

-1 for the quiz with answers (26 questions with answers, 57 slides)

4 PDF files (10 pages)

Companion Worksheets:

-vocabulary note taking page

-1 page of definitions

-crossword puzzle with answer key

-word search with answer key

-grammar and vocabulary handout

-Presentation Quiz Answer Key

-you tube links for wildfires around the world

-links for news articles on Greek and California wildfires 2017 & 2018

26 Vocabulary terms:

bear --blaze --brush --canopy

char --coals --combustible --decimate

deforest --devour --embers --engulf

erupt --firefighters --ignite --incinerate

inferno --merge --obscure --recede

scorch --sparks --tinder --torch

veer --wither

Duration with handouts about 3-4 hours

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