1. State of Emergency
Mrs. Romero
6th Grade

2. Objective
Students will explore the devastation of Hurricane Katrina via videos and text.
Students will utilize these pieces of evidence to develop research questions for their selected natural disaster. a

3. What is a Hurricane?
Identify three facts you learned about hurricanes in this video.
Share your responses with your shoulder partner.

4. What is a Hurricane?
An intense tropical weather system of strong thunderstorms with a well-defined surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of 74 mph (64 kt) or higher.
Hurricanes are categorized according to the strength of their winds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
A Category 1 storm has the lowest wind speeds, while a Category 5 hurricane has the strongest.

5. Hurricane Katrina
Identify three facts you learned about Hurricane Katrina in this video.
Share your responses with your face partner.

7. About Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States.
An estimated 1,836 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005.
Millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, which experienced the highest death toll.

8. Hurricane Katrina Facts
Hurricane Katrina was the largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US.
In New Orleans, the levees were designed for Category 3, but Katrina peaked at a Category 5 hurricane, with winds up to 175 mph.
The final death toll was at 1,836, primarily from Louisiana (1,577) and Mississippi (238).

9. Hurricane Katrina Facts
New Orleans, Louisiana was the most damaged city after the hurricane.
“New Orleans suffered from a large number of casualties, a lack of drinkable water, severe property damage, electrical outages and many more difficulties as a result of Hurricane Katrina.”

10. Hurricane Katrina Facts
Hurricane Katrina affected over 15 million people in different ways varying from having to evacuate their homes, rising gas prices, and the economy suffering.
Over one million people were evacuated out of their houses, and after all of the devastation most of them had to live in the New Orleans Superdome.
Most of the city was under water from flooding, including expressways and bridges to get out of the city.
Almost 2 million people lost their power and had to wait several weeks for it to be restored.

11. Hurricane Katrina Facts
One effect of Hurricane Katrina was anger towards the government.
The local government did not prepare New Orleans for a disaster like Hurricane Katrina.
There were canals protecting the city from flooding, but they were not strong enough. “These walls were not intended to withstand a hurricane that was more powerful than a category 3, so Katrina easily destroyed them.”

12. Hurricane Katrina Facts
Many people were evacuated out of their homes with nowhere to live for days.
Many people in Louisiana went to the New Orleans Superdome.
There they found refuge, but they were there for days before they were able to leave.

13. Hurricane Katrina Facts
There were not the right materials to house all of the refugees. “…did not have the proper facilities, supplies, or law enforcement that was needed to sustain the amount of individuals who were forced to temporarily move in.”
The federal government was very hesitant to help the city.

14. Who Was Affected Poor and Elderly Disproportionately Affected
As most of the city's citizens fled the city, those without cars or the financial means to relocate were left behind.
The 100,000 who remained in the drowning city were:
Largely poor and predominantly black, exposing the racial dimension of New Orleans’s persistent poverty: 28% of New Orleanians are poor (twice the national average)
84% of those are black
The elderly poor were also disproportionately affected by the disaster
70% of the New Orleans area's 53 nursing homes were not evacuated before the hurricane struck
Hurricane Katrina | Infoplease.com

27. Video

28. Guided Question In your notebook respond to the question:
Do you think the chaos in New Orleans (after the storm) may have been over exaggerated?

29. Guided Question In your notebook respond to the question:
Do you think peoples human and civil rights were violated when this disaster occurred?
Please explain your answer.

30. Questions to Consider
Record at least three things you observed as you watched the video.
Focus on things such as:
Who was greatly affected by the hurricane?
What was lost during the hurricane?
Why there was a need for law enforcement?
What was the cost of the damages?
What you noticed abut the rebuilding process?

31. Aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e221zkMcpFE

32. PBL Driving Question
How can we prepare impoverished communities in the event of a natural disaster?
Do you think the city of New Orleans was prepared to service its citizens during Hurricane Katrina? Explain your answer.
Do you think the city was prepared to service those who were impoverished? Explain your answer.

33. Your Research Questions
What questions do you have about the natural disaster you have chosen to research for your PBL?