Teacher Oz
Teacher Oz: Texas Natural History and the Great Outdoors
Teacher has organized many sites under these headings: Texas Natural History, Regions of Texas, Texas Animals, Texas Plants, Texas weather, Texas natural disasters, Galveston, Texas State parks, national historical landmarks, Texas...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Texas' Natural Environment
Presents information and data on all aspects of the geography, natural resources, and climate of Texas, including natural disasters and extreme weather events.
Other
Idndr: The Tsunami Page
An international site dealing with natural disasters, crisis management, prevention & reduction. The INDR (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction) Office is the sponsor. Timely, specific information included.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Naturally Disastrous
Students are introduced to natural disasters, and learn the difference between natural hazards and natural disasters. They discover the many types of natural hazards - avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, landslide,...
NOAA
Noaa: Ngdc Noaa: Family Disaster Plan Quiz
Take this five-question, online quiz to find out how much you know about emergency preparedness for a natural disaster.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Natural Disasters: Earthquakes
Information on this page will help students understand environmental dangers related to earthquakes, what they can do to prepare and recover.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Safety
Click on the links to find guides to weather and natural disaster safety tips for earthquakes, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, avalanches, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, and winter storms.
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.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Disasters
The National Science Foundation provides us with a comprehensive report on disasters; understanding them, how to prepare for them, responding to them, and the latest news. Learn about the risks involved and how to minimize the effects.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Disaster Risk Knowledge in Nepal
Read a passage about disaster risk reduction in Nepal and answer the follow-up questions.
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service: Nature's Most Violent Storms
Scroll through a preparedness guide to know how to be ready in case disaster occurs.
Other
Magnum Photos: Pakistan: Action Aid: Earthquake Relief Efforts, 2005
Images by photojournalist Chris Steele-Perkins showing the devastation in Pakistan after the October 2005 earthquake. He was sent to the quake zone by ActionAid to document the aftermath of the disaster.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Disaster Dynamics
The goal of the Disaster Dynamics project is to create games that teach players about the interaction between natural hazards and human decisions.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Volcanoes and Earthquakes
As an online exhibit from the Natural History Museum, this site provides three videos on natural processes of Earth. The videos cover tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Lowdown: After the Fires: North Bay Teachers and Students Talk Disaster Prep Lesson Plan
Wildfires burned whole neighborhoods in Northern California in a matter of minutes. In Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, hurricane winds and flood waters wreak havoc on buildings, power lines and roads. No community is entirely safe from...
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Web Japan: Nature and Climate
Would you like to find out how Japan's climate compares to where you live? Read about the climate, topography, and natural disasters. There are many pictures and a quiz at the end.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: u.s. Department of Health: Helping Hands [Pdf]
A comprehensive approach to aid students in their awareness of what occurs during a natural disaster. Focuses on the health issues that threaten a community as well as the agencies that respond to the crisis.
Burke Museum
Burke Museum: The Big One
This is the introduction to the Burke Museum's online exhibit on earthquakes and natural disasters. This is part of the Burke Museum's collection of geology. Topics that are covered include an introduction to quakes, quake science, quake...
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Health and the Environment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-three data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine health issues and how the environment impacts health in areas around the globe. They look at a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!
Students use a table-top-sized tsunami generator to observe the formation and devastation of a tsunami. They see how a tsunami moves across the ocean and what happens when it reaches the continental shelf. Students make villages of model...
Other
Global Eye on Indonesia: The Tsunami Disaster: More Than a Wave
Global Eye provides this compilation of facts and photos acquired from the Aceh Province of Indonesia and its struggles with the 2004 tsunami.
Community Learning Network
Community Learning Network: General Tsunami Resources
Come and learn more about tsunamis through this collection of resources. This site offers a wide variety of links to increase your knowledge of this powerful force of nature.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Land on the Run
Learners learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds - from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both...
National Weather Service
National Weather Service: Weather Fatality, Injury and Damage Statistics
Web site that contains detailed statistics involving natural disasters by year and type of disaster. Statistics are available in .pdf format.
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