Tsunami Webquest

3. Objectives:
To analyze the basic components of a web quest
Students will gain presentation skills using Microsoft
word

4. Title: killer Waves strikes the coast
Introduction
Tsunamis are the most powerful and destructive
waves generated in the ocean. They can cross great
distances at spends of 650-800 kilometers per hour.
The word tsunami comes from the Japanese language. The
prefix “tsu” means “harbor” and the suffix “name” means
wave” therefore the word literally means “harbor wave.”
If the trough of a tsunami hits land first, the water is sucked
away from harbors and beaches so rapidly that it leaves
flopping fish and boats behind.

5. uproot everything in its path. The retreating
wave drags
people ,buildings,boats,vegetation and even
the sand from the beach out to sea.
Researcher’s best estimate suggest that more
than 50.000 people were killed by tsunamis in
the last century.
Imagine a giant wall of water growing out of
the ocean ,big enough to wipe out entire
coastal towns and capable of killing hundreds
of thousands of people
Water moving inland has the ability to

6. Task
The task focuses learner’s on what they are going to
do specifically, the culminating performance or
product that drives all of the learning activities
Process
The process page clearly outlines what the students
needs to do and in order the tasks need to be
done.this section outlines how the learner’s will
accomplish the task.

7. Resources
Are the website students will use to complete the task.
Conclusion
Summarize what the learner’s will have accomplished or
learned by completing this activity or lesson. It brings
closure and encourages reflection

8. Evaluation
Create a chart which shows approximately ten of the
most destructive tsunamis of the past and the current
century