PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards
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.
Ready
Ready: Kids: Wildfires
This resource explains wildfires as well as what you should do to protect yourself before, during, and after a wildfire.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Tornadoes
Features a brief explanation of tornadoes, how they form, their impact, and survival tips.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Moving West, Natural Disasters
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.
Geographic
Photius Coutsoukis: China Geography
This site from Photius Coutsoukis provides a geographical examination of the current geography of eastern China.
University of Chicago
Ten Risky Places United States
Hazards of different types affecting areas of varying size are assessed in California, Seattle, Hawaii and elsewhere.