{"id":16288,"date":"2015-02-02T06:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T21:11:59","slug":"year-6-explore-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-6-explore-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 6 Explore Natural Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"16289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/year-6-explore-natural-disasters\/attachment\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?fit=323%2C432&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"323,432\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?fit=323%2C432&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16289\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?resize=200%2C267\" alt=\"yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?resize=150%2C200&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/yr-6-natural-disasters-jan-2015.jpg?w=323&amp;ssl=1 323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Year 6 has made an impressive start to their new topic <em>Natural Disasters. <\/em>\u00a0&#8216;Board blasting&#8217; natural and man-made disasters kick started our thinking into this area.\u00a0 The children were then able to define the differences between such disasters and realised that our planet can become angry at times.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing our geologist hats we were able to observe the structure of the earth and examine the Tectonic Plate Theory in order to understand how natural disasters can occur.<\/p>\n<p>Working in pairs the children used traditional and digital resources to capture relevant information and interesting facts on a number of natural disasters.\u00a0 Please come and check out some of our information posters as you might discover something that you did not know before\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/provolearning.com\\\/blog\\\/school-news\\\/year-6-explore-natural-disasters\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:65587034}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; 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