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Description
OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will read a series of passages and use primary source materials to determine key events and information, cause-and-effect relationships, and the significance of factors related to the hurricane of 1900.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 – 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- What were the political, social, and economic effects of the hurricane of 1900 on the city of Galveston?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Sources
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up & Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will consider how people today stay informed about dangerous weather conditions in Texas such as tornadoes and hurricanes. Students identify technology and systems in place to protect, alert, and support people in the event of a natural disaster. Then students consider what they think was available to people in 1900 to protect them from natural disasters.
In this exit ticket, students will read 5 statements and determine whether each statement is a cause, effect, or significance of the devastation that occurred in Galveston because of the hurricane of 1900.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will read passages written at a grade-level Lexile level and answer questions including multiple-choice, multi-response, and short constructed response.
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In this printable assignment, students will read passages written at a grade-level Lexile level with key information presented in bold and answer questions including multiple-choice and multi-response with one answer option eliminated, and a short constructed response question with sentence stems provided.
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In this printable assignment, students will read passages written at an above-grade-level Lexile level and answer short, constructed response questions.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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Galveston, 1894
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The Great Galveston Disaster
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Postcard of the Galveston seawall
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.) Tuesday, September 11, 1900,
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