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 * Extreme Weather and Natural Disaster Tradebooks - Kelsey Lundgren**

Gray-Wilburn, R. (2012). //Earthquakes!//. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press. Lexile Level 570 This book is a nonfiction graphic novel with excellent illustrations to keep students interested. It covers the science of earthquakes as well as how people can stay safe.

Ganeri, A. (2013). //Fearsome forces of nature//. Chicago, IL: Capstone Global Library, LLC. Lexile Level 760 This book contains information on many types of natural occurrences. including geysers, avalanches, and tsunamis. There are photographs that show up close what nature looks like in these environments. There are also extreme facts dispersed throughout the book to wow students.

deMarin, L. (2012). //Too much snow//. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press. Lexile Level 610 This book is perfect for northern Wisconsin students! It explains in detail what the students see every winter. It starts by examining snowflakes and then the book moves on to blizzards. Students who live in Wisconsin will have plenty of prior knowledge to access with this book!

White, M. (2002). //Storm chasers: On the trail of deadly tornadoes//. Bloomington, MN: Red Brick Learning. Lexile Level 560 This book describes the job of a storm chaser. It highlights unfamiliar words in bold with a glossary at the end in order to help students learn content vocabulary. It also includes photographs of real tornados to help students visualize how severe tornados can be.

Wendorff, A. (2009). //Ice storms//. Minneapolis, MN: Bellwether Media. Lexile Level 830 This book includes both photographs as well as clear illustrations to help explain the science of ice storms. It also includes a historical aspect as it describes the Canadian ice storm of 1998.

Thomas, R. (2005). //Rumble, boom!: A book about thunderstorms//. Minneapolis, MN: Picture Window Books. Lexile Level 710 This book goes into great detail about thunderstorms including how they form as well as how to survive a thunderstorm.

Spilsbury, L., & Spilsbury, R. (2010). //Raging floods.// Chicago, IL: Heinemann Library. Lexile Level 990 This book combines information about what floods are and why they happen. However, this book also grabs students will real life case studies to show them what has actual happened with floods in fairly recent history. It includes many clear photographs of devastation caused by flooding.

Ganeri, A. (2013). //Wild weather//. Chicago, IL: Raintree. Lexile Level 680 This book covers a variety of different extreme weather conditions including droughts, hail, heat waves, and hurricanes among others. Content vocabulary words are highlighted in bold with a glossary at the end of the book to help students as they read. It also includes vivid photographs of the weather conditions being described.

Wendorff, A. (2009). //Droughts//. Minneapolis, MN: Bellwether Media. Lexile Level 750 This book has both very clear illustrations as well as photographs to keep students interested. This book also does not assume students have a great prior knowledge of the water cycle and explains vocabulary words such as water vapor. This is unique as other books can assume mastery of certain content vocabulary.

Wendorff, A. (2009). //Tsunamis//. Minneapolis, MN: Bellwether Media. Lexile Level 820 This book uses clear illustrations to help explain the difficult science behind tsunamis. This book includes a glossary at the end where highlighted words from the text can be found. This book also includes a section on the Indian Ocean Tsunami.


 * Extreme Weather and Natural Disaster Websites - Kelsey Lundgren**

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-hurricane.htm This website has individual pages for each type of weather. It also has a glossary of weather words as well as weather experiments and answers to kid questions.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/severe.htm This website has information on many types of weather. It also has pages for students to create experiments, make weather with an electronic game and even one page for students to become a weather detective by searching the web and following links for different weather cases.

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/kidsville.htm This website has many articles on different weather topics. Students can use the information found in the articles for their reports in the unit.

http://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/weather-and-climate/ This website offers opportunity for extension of the unit. It covers weather from the perspective of climate change. It also offers information on El Niño which is a less common weather topic.

http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/index.htm This website offers information on a few types of serious weather. It also provides true stories of real people who experienced different types of severe weather. This access to true stories can help students understand how weather is not just about science, but that it also has a personal side because it can seriously affect people.

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