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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Tracking the Health Effects of Natural Disasters

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the impact of natural disasters, such as flooding, on public health, and study diseases and other secondary conditions associated with stagnant water. Lesson includes resources for students to research epidemics and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Severe Weather and Natural Disasters

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about severe weather and natural disasters through experiments, witness accounts, vocabulary, and much more.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
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Handout
European Space Agency

European Space Agency: Esa Kids: Earth: Natural Disasters: Satellites Help Japan

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief explanation of how satellite images are used to record and monitor the damage caused by a natural disaster, in this case the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 24, 2011.
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Other

Idndr: The Tsunami Page

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Helping Children After a Disaster: Information for Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
NASP offers tips to teachers and parents on how to help children cope after a natural disaster.
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Interactive
Ready

Ready: Kids: Disaster Master

For Students 3rd - 6th
Make the right decisions about being prepared for natural disasters to become a Disaster Master!
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Handout
US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Natural Disasters: Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on this page will help students understand environmental dangers related to earthquakes, what they can do to prepare and recover.
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Website
Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Safety

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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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.
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Activity
Teachers.net

Teachers.net Lesson: Natural Disaster Bloom's Taxonomy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a lengthy activity for student to work on while learning about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Students will enjoy researching these disasters and applying what they have learned to a project.
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Lesson Plan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: u.s. Department of Health: Helping Hands [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Unit Plan
Burke Museum

Burke Museum: The Big One

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Health and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Natural Disasters: Nature's Fury

For Teachers 9th - 10th
People have always tried to understand the natural world in which they live. In early times, they created myths to explain their experiences with fire, flood and other violent forces. Over the centuries, new scientific discoveries added...
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Graphic
The Washington Post

Washington Post: Mapping America's Wicked Weather and Deadly Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Features data collection for natural disasters and maps the trends giving us an idea of where disasters have a tendency to strike.
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Graphic
National Weather Service

National Weather Service: Weather Fatality, Injury and Damage Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Article
Seeker

Seeker: Week of 11 11 13: Typhoon Haiyan's Death Toll Rises to 10,000

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the supertyphoon that recently left the Philippines devastastated, and the enormous loss of life caused by this severe natural disaster.
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Website
Other

Relief Web

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides updated information on humanitarian crises around the world. From natural disasters to human rights violations, you will be able to keep up to date on the issues around the globe.
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World Food Programme

World Food Programme: Who Are the Hungry?

For Students 9th - 10th
The World Food Programme is the largest food aid organization in the world, providing food where needed to victims after earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters. Learn what hunger is: the causes, the people, where...
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Other

Center for International Disaster Information

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An excellent source for information on disasters all over the world. Site is updated daily with reports from affected countries.
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Website
Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
Article with photographs about the Galveston hurricane of 1900 provides a survivor's eye witness account of the devastation.
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Website
Other

Hurricane Science: Hurricanes: Science and Society: Galveston 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on the science of hurricanes and the effect on society, featuring Galveston, 1900. With map, list of facts and embedded links to vocabulary and related material.

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