Join the American Red Cross as well as Mickey and friends as they help to prepare young scholars for natural disasters. After reading brief informational passages about earthquakes, floods, fires, storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes,...

Taking care of younger children is often the first job for many middle schoolers. Learning how to keep themselves and their young charges safe, especially around water, is essential. Two activities teach teens, and tweens water safety...

Students investigate how lightning is produced and ways they can keep themselves safe during a lightning storm. After a lecture/demo, students use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to reinforce the concepts taught.

Students identify bathtub and pool safety rules. In this water safety lesson, students create a bathtub safety book and water bottle label that contain pool and water safety rules.

Learners research severe weather conditions common to their geographic location and create weather emergency guides. They, in groups, develop guides for extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, tornadoes, floods, and storms.

In this science worksheet, middle schoolers find the vocabulary terms related to the subject of hurricanes. The answers are found by clicking the button found at the bottom of the page.

Thorough resource that covers preparing for natural and man-made disasters and hazards.

Natural disasters come in many different forms. In order to be better prepared, students have to know the different types of disasters. In this activity students will research natural disasters in order to create a brochure highlighting...