Disaster (noun): a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
Natural disaster: any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, and volcanic eruption
From Dictionary.com
United States Geological Survey
Em-Dat - the International Disaster Database
ReliefWeb - Use the Disasters tab to search for your topic. This site looks at humanitarian issues.
CBS News Disasters Links - there are many, many links here!
Channel One site - covers all types of disasters. You can make a virtaul volcano, take quizzes and view the earthquake simulator here!
Earth Times - page on Natural Disasters
NOVA - use the search function to find information
Access our databases by clicking on the eResources tab at the top of this page.
Explora is a place to read news articles, book and much more on your topic.
Library Webs is a great starting place for websites related to disasters. Once you are in the database, do a search or choose a category.
Britannica School will give you authoritative information about disasters from many of its articles.
Here are the videos from the Structure of the Earth PowerPoint used in class.
Watch this animation on how an earthquake occurs.
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Make your own quake. |
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| Stop Disasters Game |
