Extreme storm lovers - this site is worth checking out!  The Discovery Channel Weather site at http://www.discovery.com/guides/weather/weather.html has lots of information on hurricanes, tornadoes, thunder storms, droughts, and more.   Be sure to check out the Today's Features, games, and live cams.  The Earth Alert button will show you where Mother Nature has struck today.

Scholastic's Winter Storms at http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter/index.htm is your chance to tie stories into the science of storms, and look at severe storms over the past three hundred years. Some favorites are the Interactive Weather Maker and the Winter
Storms Timeline.

Thinkquest Forces of Nature at http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/index.shtml has great information.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the topic of interest.  Be sure to visit the "Interact" section for multimedia, simulations (some require players we don't have but try these at home), and other activities.

Here's another great Thinkquest site for volcanoes, twisters, and earthquakes.  Natural Disasters Without Warning at http://library.thinkquest.org/J001382F/ has good easy to understand information as well as game quizzes and tongue twisters.

Need to know what to do in the event of severe weather?   The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/safety.html has wonderful information that could help save your life some day.

FEMA for Kids at http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm has basic disaster information with cute stories and other activities.

FEMA Preparedness, Training, and Exercises at http://www.fema.gov/pte/prep.htm has a list of many natural disasters with a fact sheet for each of what to do before, during, and after the disaster.  Be sure to scroll down and click on the "backgrounder" link for lots of information about the disaster.

For an excellent site dealing with floods PBS In Focus Floods at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/infocus/floods.html is worth checking out!  Get real life accounts, the science hows and whys, flood fighters, pet rescues, and audio flood stories.

The Floodplain Management Web Site at http://www.floodplain.org/p-basics.htm has basic facts about floods and flooding and gives ways homeowners can protect themselves in the event of a flood.

What is an earthquake?  Where and why do they happen?   What do we call people who study earthquakes?  Find out the answers to these questions and more at http://www.enviroweb.org/carnegie/earthquake_right.html.

Get up-to-date occurances of earthquakes around the world from the US Geological Survey at http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/quake/gldfs.cr.usgs.gov.   This is constantly updated as the earthquakes occur throughout the day.  There is also a map showing the location of the quakes.

Here's an awesome earthquake site!  PBS's Savage Earth "The Restless Planet: Earthquakes" is one worth visiting at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html.   There are great animations and illustrations to help explains the devastating seismic effects.  Try the experiment at the beginning.

Are you interested in volcanoes?  This excellent site from PBS "Out of the Inferno:  Volcanoes"  at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/volcanoes/index.html is a must see.  The text is very well written and there are videos so you can experience the extreme wonder of the mountains of fire.

How Volcanos Work at http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work is an awesome information packed site sponsored by NASA. You can find many images to use here.

Experience the power of a tsunami's great waves at PBS's "Waves of Destruction:  Tsunamis" at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html.   This is a very informative site.  Be sure to see the video!

Project Wildfire at http://www.cfs.org.au/project/frames2.html has lots of great information on wildfires.  Find out about the anatomy of a fire, its effects, and some famous fires.  Check out the Elements of a Fire link to discover how fires travel and learn about the types of fires.

What happened in the Chicago Fire, one of the most famous fires of all time?  Find out from National Geographic's "Chicago Fire" at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/9809/chicago/index.html.   Two more good sites that covers this devastation are The Great Chicago Fire at http://www.mce.k12tn.net/disasters/great_chicago.htm and The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory at  http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf-index.html.

The Great Fire of London was another infamous fire.   Get the scoop on it at The Great Fire of London at http://www.jmccall.demon.co.uk/history/page2.htm and read The London Gazette, a newspaper, that covered the historic event at http://members.aa.net/~davidco/History/fire1.htm.

World Book has a lot of information about fires in their article "Preventing and Fighting Fires" at http://www.worldbook.com/fun/fire/html/intro.htm.   Be sure to check out their web sites links for more information.

For good information on tornadoes,  Discovery Online - Tornadoes at http://www.discovery.com/news/features/tornado/tornado.html.   Don't miss the Lifecycle of a Tornado and Anatomy of a Killer buttons at the bottom.  Also, try the activities on the left.

The Tornado Project Online at http://tornadoproject.com/ has SO much information about these terrible twisters.  You'll find things covered here that you won't find on other sites.

Learn about tornadoes from USA Today at http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tornado/wtwist0.htm.   This is a very informative site.

Still need more information?  Check out the Yahooligans Natural Disasters page at http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Nature/The_Earth/Environment/
Natural_Disasters/

Webquests

Hurricane 2000
Living With Disaster
Terrible Tornados
In the "Eye" of the Storm
Will That Volcano Spoil Our Party?
Safety in Severe Weather
Earthquake
In Searh of the Ring of Fire
Wild Weather
Tornados

Updated 1/12/02

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