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Resources to Help Understand and Explain Natural Distasters
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fiction books
Helping Kids Cope
- Explaining World Tragedy to Kids
An article that deals with how to talk to you kids with age appropriate strategies.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Regardless of the type of natural disaster, if it happens in the United States, FEMA will be there. That is because it is the federal agency that is tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from, and mitigating against distasters.
- FEMA for Kids
This site teaches you how to be prepared for disasters and prevent disaster damage. You can also learn what causes, disasters, play games, read stories and become a Disaster Action Kid. See hurricane page.
- What You Might Feel in a Disaster
Disasters can happen. They often happen quickly and without warning, and they can be scary for you and your parents. This site has a list of six things to remember during a disaster.
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricanes
- FEMA for kids: Hurricanes
Learn about the history of hurricanes, hurricane hunters, and even play some hurricane games.
- Hurricane Preparedness
History teaches that a lack of hurricane awareness and preparation are common threads among all major hurricane disasters. By knowing your vulnerability and what actions you should take, you can reduce the effects of a hurricane disaster.
- Hurricanes
Use the NOAA storm tracker to track storms as they happen.
- Wikipedia - Tropical Cyclone
A great place to start your research. Wikipedia provides the basic information about hurricanes, great diagrams, and information on individual hurricanes.
Tsunamis
- National Geographic Killer Wave! Tsunami
A short site for younger kids that focuses on what a tsunami is, how it forms, and includes a survival story from the 1946 Hawaii tsunami.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Tsunami Page
Sections include the basics, big picture, preparedness, hazard assessment, education, and animations.
- Surviving a Tsunami
A resource guide created by USGS on how to survive a tsunami should you find yourself in a disaster area.
- Tsunamis and Earthquakes: Tsunami Research Center at USGS
From what a tsunami is, to video models of hypothetical tsunamis, this site covers it all.
- Tsunami Textbooks
The tsunami textbooks are divided into four levels. Pre-Elementary school, 2nd to 4th grade, 5th to 8th grade and High School.
- Wikipedia - Tsunami
A good starting place to begin your research project. This site covers the basics of tsunamis and has entries for actual tsunamis across the world.
Revised and updated September 2005.
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