Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
Website
Ready

Ready: Kids: Wildfires

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource explains wildfires as well as what you should do to protect yourself before, during, and after a wildfire.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Tornadoes

For Students 4th - 8th
Features a brief explanation of tornadoes, how they form, their impact, and survival tips.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Moving West, Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Assign reasons from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explain pioneers' migration to and return from the American plains in the 1800s. Research, write and produce a newspaper dedicated to a natural disaster such as the 19th-century drought.
Handout
Geographic

Photius Coutsoukis: China Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Photius Coutsoukis provides a geographical examination of the current geography of eastern China.
Handout
University of Chicago

Ten Risky Places United States

For Students 9th - 10th
Hazards of different types affecting areas of varying size are assessed in California, Seattle, Hawaii and elsewhere.