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"Explaining Our World: Fact and Fiction"
By: Stephanie, Cassidy, and Olivia

The title of our English unit was, "Explaining Our World, Fact and Fiction," and that’s exactly what all 106 of us did! We each were assigned 1-3 natural disasters to research. Our English teacher, Mr. Varga, gave us a few of the school's laptops for us to share and research, with while we were in class. At the end of one week, we had to put information together and created a 3-D model along with a research paper.

There was one thing that all of our reports had in common: Mount St. Helens! This tremendous volcano erupted in 1980, and had a very big impact on the landscape and people around it. Other topics students researched included snowstorms, hurricanes, tsunamis, and more! Once everyone brought in their masterpieces, we got to present, which included the eruption of paper maché volcanoes! This unit helped us understand how natural disasters effect the mysterious world around us.

Self explanatory
The Great Blizzard of 1978, by Tori
Another Great Blizzard by Cassidy
The Molasses Flood, by Brooke
Isn't this a great model of Mount St. Helens?
The Tsunami, by Cathryn
Very creative landscape!
Interesting... Nice work!
The writers/ photographers of this article!
As you can see, people were very creative about what they molded there projects out of. This one was made with a Diet Coke bottle!
Look at this hands on learning!	We have some very talented artists in our grade. Nice job Nicole!
We love the palm trees!
Another great Tsunami, by Dylan
Look at the details in this diorama, keep it up Adam!
The after effects of a tornado, by Rachel
Zach had a cool use of plastic animals!
Here's a close up of Zach's volcano- We love how he used pebbles to surround it
This must have taken some time, but it spayed off, Ben!
This is our English teacher, Mr. Varga, who helped us learn a lot throughout this unit.
Stay tuned-- as you'll probably see more from Grade 6 in the future :-)

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