The Children's Blizzard of 1888
A Cause-and-Effect Investigation
From the Series Cause-and-Effect Disasters
On January 12, 1888, a sudden blizzard barreled across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakota Territory. Blinding snow and howling wind took rural towns by surprise. Many children were stranded in one-room schoolhouses. Far from their homes on the Midwestern prairie, would the people caught in the storm survive?
To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did warm weather earlier in the day give people a false sense of safety? How did the lack of an accurate forecast contribute to the severity of the disaster? Investigate the disaster from a cause-and-effect perspective and find out!
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| Interest Level | Grade 4 - Grade 6 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 4 |
| Genre | Social Studies |
| Copyright | 2017 |
| Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Imprint | Lerner Publications ™ |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 40 |
| Publication Date | 2016-08-01 |
| Reading Counts! Level | 4.7 |
| Text Type | Informational/Explanatory |
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| BISACS | JNF051160, JNF025170, JNF025200 |
| Dewey | 363.34/625097709034 |
| Graphics | Full-color illustrations |
| Dimensions | 6 x 9 |
| Lexile | 780 |
| ATOS Reading Level | 5.3 |
| Accelerated Reader® Quiz | 183865 |
| Accelerated Reader® Points | 1.0 |
| Features | Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Glossary, Index, Reviewed, Sidebars, Source notes, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource |
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Cause-and-Effect Disasters
Provide readers with a deeper understanding of history through a cause-and-effect analysis of well-known disasters. What decisions were made, what shortcuts were taken, or what heroic acts led to the ultimate outcomes? Even the most reluctant readers won’t be able to resist… View available downloads →
Reviews
School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
“[W]ithout being too gratuitous, gory, or sensational . . . [this series] will help students understand the impact of each disaster on history. . . . A strong choice for pleasure reading and report writing.”—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple