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Read Works: Forecasting Severe Weather to Communities Helps Them Prepare

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how communities can prepare for weather disasters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock Solid

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Rocks cover the earth's surface, including what is below or near human-made structures. With rocks everywhere, breaking rocks can be hazardous and potentially disastrous to people. Students are introduced to three types of material...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: New Orleans Disaster Serves Tough Lessons

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Richard Ingham's article deals with the brutality of nature's lesson as witnessed in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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PBS

Pbs Nova Teachers: Building on Ground Zero

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover how knowledge gained from disasters has influenced changes in safety features and building codes. Describe how codes have been used to try to prevent future loss of property or lives.
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Knowledge Computing: Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses a different approach to the fall of the civilizations during the Bronze Age. The author believes that there was a comet that affected the earth and wiped out those early cultures.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Weather Phenomenon Web Site"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create a complete web site about a natural phenomenon weather occurrence that causes destruction, death, and injury. These students will create these Weather Websites that will have a design focus aimed at elementary aged...
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Shifting Baselines: Slow Motion Disaster in the Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
A baseline is a standard point of reference when measuring various things. The catch phrase, "shifting baselines," refers to the slow changes occurring in the environment that ultimately change what the environment was and what is...
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PBS

Pbs: The Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
This reflective analysis of Hurricane Katrina probes the lessons learned from this natural disaster. Topics addressed include preparedness, communication and leadership. The site includes video footage of the hurricane.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Making & Breaking: The Rock Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn the components of the rock cycle and how rocks can change over time under the influence of weathering, erosion, pressure and heat. They learn about geotechnical engineering and the role these engineers play in the...
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Other

Action Against Hunger: Acf Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives by "eliminating hunger through prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and after emergency situations of conflict, war and natural disaster".
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Other

Doctors Without Borders

For Students 9th - 10th
Outstanding interactive home page of a professional organization of Physicians who volunteer to help people all over the world who are victims of war, diseases, natural disasters, and those who have no health care. Great virtual tour of...
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BBC

Bbc: 2.5 Million People Affected by Pakistan Floods

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides a comprehensive look at the floods in Pakistan, examining the local, national, and international implications of the natural disaster. (August 2, 2010)
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Through five lessons, students are introduced to all facets of the rock cycle. Topics include rock and mineral types, material stresses and weathering, geologic time and fossil formation, the Earth's crust and tectonic plates, and soil...
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NASA

Nasa: A Century of Quake Research April 2006

For Students 9th - 10th
This site that presents an in depth look at the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Plate boundaries are identified, effects of this natural disaster are outlined, and a wealth of information is discussed that provides a...
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Other

Broward Community College: The Gopher Tortoise

For Students 9th - 10th
The population of the gopher tortoise is limited by homes, roads, and buildings made by humans. This valuable species creates burrows that provide shelter for numerous creatures during natural disasters like forest fires. This site...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why did great civilizations fall? War, disease, overpopulation or natural disasters? Interactive content and activities allow you, by sifting through archaeological evidence, to investigate the collapse of the Mayan civilization, the...
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World Food Programme

Wfp: World Food Programme

For Students 9th - 10th
WFP is a United Nations organization whose mission is to eradicate global hunger and poverty. Their primary beneficiaries are victims of natural disasters, displaced people, the world's hungry poor, and women.
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Other

Umcor: The United Methodist Committee on Relief

For Students 9th - 10th
Non-profit "global humanitarian aid organization of the United Methodist Church". Their mission "is to alleviate human suffering-whether by war, conflict or natural disaster". Find articles, photos, and more.
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Other

Planet Ark: World Environmental News

For Students 9th - 10th
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Disasters to Nature: Sensitivity of Ground Water Systems to Pollution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students visit three sites to investigate the areas where there is very high sensitivity for ground-water pollution. They also test the quality of water, measuring the dissolved oxygen, pH, total phosphate, nitrates, turbidity, and...
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PBS

Pbs Newshour Extra: What Is a Flood Plain?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will view flooding situations and hypothesize how much risk they are in their homes and schools. They will also estimate the expense of living through a flood and compare the price to the cost of repairing damage due to flooding.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Ash Cloud From Icelandic Volcano Disrupts Global Trade

For Students 9th - 10th
The Icelandic volcano spewed tons of ash into the atmosphere creating havoc for global trade. This article briefly discusses its impact on the environment and the economic consequences of the eruption. Education resources are included....
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K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Thunderstorms

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this comprehensive list of web resources on thunderstorms and safety. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found on this site.

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