Disaster on the Mountain
Essential Questions
- Is it worth risking your life to fulfill your passions in life?
Activities
Response to Essential Question
Students create a subpage called Disaster on the Mountain under the Extreme Sports page on their online portfolio. Students write their response to the essential question: Is it worth risking your life to fulfill your passions in life? Students can share their responses in small groups and then transition into a group discussion.
Students create a subpage called Disaster on the Mountain under the Extreme Sports page on their online portfolio. Students write their response to the essential question: Is it worth risking your life to fulfill your passions in life? Students can share their responses in small groups and then transition into a group discussion.
Pre-Teaching Academic Language
Student create a sub-page called Academic Language under the Disaster on the Mountain page. Students rephrase the definition of each vocabulary word into their own words. Then they will create their own sentence using the word and find an image to represent each word.
Student create a sub-page called Academic Language under the Disaster on the Mountain page. Students rephrase the definition of each vocabulary word into their own words. Then they will create their own sentence using the word and find an image to represent each word.
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Read Disaster on the Mountain
Before Reading Questions
- What makes avalanche country dangerous?
- How can skiers or snowboarders stay safe?
Read Disaster on the Moutain
Paraphrasing Activity
Post Reading Questions
- Why are most deaths cause by avalanches preventable?
- Why is the number of people killed in avalanches each year on the rise? What measures might reverse this trend?
- What factors do Fredston and Fesler study to determine why and where avalanches occur? Why is their work important?
- What aided Stroud’s Rescue?
- Based on the graphs on page 9, what can you infer might be the effect on recreationists of using avalanche air bags? Do you think Fredston would agree?