Exploring Natural Disasters is an important element in various subjects - social studies, science, and NOW writing! This brochure assignment allows students to explore a natural disaster from either the United States or around the world and learn about the impact such events can have on the human population. For this project students are required to: 1) Research 2) Take self-guided notes 3) Organize sources 4) Produce a finished brochure as a final product Included in this product you will find: 1) Expectations for the project for both teacher & students 2) Project guidelines 3) Project Rubric 4) Student note handouts 5) Suggested list of project research topics Here are a FEW of the ways that you could potentially integrate this into your classroom: 1) Guided Genius Hour Project 2) Science supplemental project for Earth Sciences 3) Social Studies supplemental project to support standard pertaining to human impacts from natural disasters 4) Writing project to supplement expository writing 5) Novel supplement for Night of the Twisters 6) Independent research assignment 7) Writing center project over several weeks 8) Group research projects After downloading please rate and review this product! I LOVE feedback! Happy teaching!