The following activities can be done before or after visiting the historical sites in Galveston.
Feel free to pick and choose the activities you wish for your students to complete. There are also free curriculum resources at most of the sites you will be visiting, so please integrate those into the unit as you see fit. Also, please keep in mind that the following activities are written as a self-guided experience for the students. They are not meant to be teacher directed lesson plans.
Examine the following picture and try putting yourself in the shoes of a survivor of The Great Storm of 1900. Imagine yourself as an individual person (child or adult). Be sure to think about your imagined age, your name, and possibly where exactly you lived in Galveston. You will then use your prior knowledge and imagination to answer the following questions using complete sentences.
Before the storm hit, the population of Galveston was more than 37,000. The Great Storm of 1900 took an estimated 6,000 lives from Galveston Island. The storm is still recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history.Fast Facts About The Storm
Again, imagine yourself back in time. Be sure to answer the following questions from the perspective of a survivor of the hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900.
The Galveston survivors began reconstruction immediately. Even the Galveston Daily News continued its publication without missing an issue. New telephone lines were laid the second week after the storm.Fast Facts About The Storm
