Mind Map - Natural Disasters

Posted on March 21, 2008
Filed under 08 AllStars, Projects, Science, Sharing, Thinking, What do you think?

How cool is this?

Last week we tried out a mind mapping tool called mind42.com to organise our thinking about Natural Disasters.

We had just been introduced to Natural Disasters through some wonderful hands on science activities from the CSIRO and we thought that we would like to investigate further.

This is what we came up with - have a look at the map above - you can move themap, make the text bigger/smaller, open and close the nodes. WOW

AllStars - leave a comment about the area you would like to investigate.

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16 Responses to “Mind Map - Natural Disasters”

Naomi on March 22nd, 2008 5:44 pm

Hi Mrs P,
Well, I’m not exactly sure what I would like to investigate!?! Although, I wouldn’t mind investigating tsunamis and earthquakes. Maybe we could pair up with someone and investigate together. Could we all make a power point about the natural disaster we were investigating, and then show it to the class? Or maybe we could all do a bit of everything. Some pairs could even investigate the past natural disasters, and tell us about them.

Maybe we could find some more experiments to do and then do them. Then we could figure out what happened and why it happened. I hope we will be able to find out why all the past natural disasters have occurred. Hope this helps.
Naomi
mind mapping » Blog Archive » Mind Map - Natural Disasters on March 22nd, 2008 6:37 pm

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natnat on March 22nd, 2008 9:07 pm

Hi Allstars!

Right now I’m in Melbourne and so is Sandy! I’ll write my area that I want to investigate later. Bye for now!

Natalie

Have a great time Nat & Sandy! Take some photos and we can post them on this blog MrsP
Nadine on March 25th, 2008 5:43 pm

Hi Mrs P!
I really think that i should work on…. everything really. I like Science, it’s my favourite subject, so i think I’d like to work on everything.
Maybe we could find a site and see how to do experiments that prove how earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes etc, work.
I agree with Naomi about getting into groups.
I think Earth is so interesting! Imagine how it would be without it? We wouldn’t without it!?
So i say we should do some work on that. Also, working on the Earth with make us see how important it is to us.
Mickayla on March 26th, 2008 12:45 pm

cool mindmap i will be working on earthquakes!
I hope I’ll enjoy it. bye for now
natnat on March 26th, 2008 2:19 pm

Hi Allstars

My topic in natural disasters will be cyclones. The main thing I want to investigate is how cyclones are formed, how they go away and how long they go for. Just as everyone else has noted out, it would be very good if we could work in partners but no more than two people.

Natalie
Sharon on March 26th, 2008 7:28 pm

Hello!
I think i should work on Volcanoes. Nadine and I have paired up which means i also agree with Naomi about pairing up.Maybe we could pair up in pairs and work in a particular thing about our topic. Then we could show the class and explain it.

I think that if we want to know a bit about their topic, they could use Wikipedia.
here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Even though i would not be here for the rest of the term, Nadine and i agreed to comment on each others blog if we found anything exciting about our topic.

I hope this will be fun!

Sharon
Mikhaila on April 2nd, 2008 2:45 pm

Hi Mrs P,
I think for this term i will study Tsunami’s.
I want to study Tsunami’s because i think that they are really interesting.

Mikhaila
Latika on April 2nd, 2008 2:47 pm

Hi Mrs.Pericles

I want to research tornadoes because they are realy cool.

Bye Latika
sokeina on April 2nd, 2008 2:50 pm

Hi,
I would like to investigate volcano’s. I have always been interested in science and escpecially volcanic eruptions. I have always hoped that there could be one way that I could stop all the trouble that volcanic eruptions are causing. I agree with nadine, naomi & sharon that we should pair up beacuase 2 heads are better than 1!
Toooooooooooooooooodles!
Momtahina on April 2nd, 2008 2:50 pm

Hello!
I had a hard time trying to decide what I want to research.But I think for this term, I would like to do Monitoring Tsunami’s. I want to monitor them because I think that they would be really interesting to study and I feel like it is the best thing for me to do.
I agree with Naomi when she said that we could pair up and do some presentations.

Momtahina!
kesaia on April 2nd, 2008 2:52 pm

Hello!
I really agree with Naomi because there is a lot of interesting things to investigate but I think I will study tsunamis. One, because I think it’s really interesting, two, because there is alot of things that happened with tsunamis.
BYE

Kesaia
celia on April 2nd, 2008 2:53 pm

Hi!!
I’m doing about volcanoes I hope I enjoy it.
Celia
Winson on April 2nd, 2008 2:59 pm

Hi, guys I’m back.
I’ll like to do rocks and minerals because many rocks and minerals are rare.
Robert on April 2nd, 2008 2:59 pm

Mrs p
To tell you the truth it was a battle bewteen earthquakes and volcanic eruptions but i finally decided to pick volcanic eruptions somehow
i also like the mine map is so cool.
marshall on April 2nd, 2008 3:00 pm

The mind map is so cool.

I want to learn more about volcanos. I just found out that there was a sighting of an outer space volcano eruption.