Tsunami
Resources for the Classroom
Note: The resources listed below were provided to NSTA by science educators who responded to a survey in last week's edition of NSTA Express. We've attempted to highlight the most popular resources, those that provide rich content material for teachers, and/or those that provide information free of charge. NSTA is not responsible for the content of these websites.
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
ENC provides hundreds of resources for science and math teachers. Teachers are encouraged to search the site's various offerings, including lesson plans, and activities, curriculum resources, and more. http://www.enc.org.
NOAA/National Weather Service
Tsunami: The Great Waves
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/tsunami.htm
The Tsunami Warning System, excerpted from Tsunami: The Great Waves http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html
NASA
NASA's Observatorium is a public access site for Earth and space data http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/tsunami/tsun_bay.html
NASA-sponsored site that
contains satellite imagery and scientific information
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16772
United States Geological Society http://temp.water.usgs.gov/tsunami
Worldwide Earthquake Activity in the Last Seven Days http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin
Preliminary Earthquake Report from December 26, 2004 http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_slav_l.html
This Dynamic Earth:
The Story of Plate Tectonics http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.htmlSurviving
a Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan. USGS online publication
that details how to survive a tsunami. It was based on personal accounts related
to the tsunami generated by the 1960 earthquake in Chile.
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1187
National Geographic
General news http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news
News about December 26 tsunami
in Asia http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1228_041228_tsunami.html
National Geographic for Kids
Killer Wave: Tsunami
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9610/kwave/index.html
Discovery School
Understanding Tsunamis.
Cross-curricular discussion topics, writing activities, and video clips can
give students a scientific perspective on last month's tsunami and a geographic
understanding of Asia. http://www.discoveryschool.com/teachers/tsunami
Earth science lesson plan for grades 6-8 http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/tsunami
K-5 lesson plans on tsunami http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/dynamicearth
Discovery Channel
Presents The Next Wave: Science of Tsunamis
Discovery demystifies
one of the most dangerous and enigmatic forces on
Earth: tsunamis. See the science behind their devastating power. Understand
where they come from and what we can do to better prepare. Set your VCR for
January 10 at 2 a.m. to tape this program for use in your classroom. http://media.dsc.discovery.com/schedule/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=25052&gid=0&channel=DSC
Pacific Tsunami Museum,
Hilo, Hawaii
Links to tsunami resource
centers, tsunami research sites, related science sites, movies, animations,
simulations, disaster centers and preparedness, and more
http://www.tsunami.org/links.htm
National Tsunami Hazard
Mitigation Program
Provides links to
international, federal, state, and other tsunami organizations
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/links.html
University of California
at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
Information on and
animations of plate tectonics http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html
PBS
Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html
How Stuff Works
General information http://science.howstuffworks.com/tsunami.htm
University of Southern
California
The USC tsunami research group provides photos from several recent tsunamis
and related tsunami information. http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/index.html
The Next Wave, Anne Rosenthal, California Wild, Spring 1999, Vol. 52:2, California Academy of Sciences. This story describes a tsunami that devastated Papua, New Guinea, in 1998. http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/1999spring/stories/tsunamis.html
The Great Indonesian
Earthquake of 2004
Web page created by Steve Kluge, science teacher at Fox Lane High School, Bedford,
New York http://www.bedford.k12.ny.us/flhs/science/images/tsunami2004
Digital Globe
Digital imagery http://www.digitalglobe.com
Volcano Live
Website of Australian volcanologist John Seach http://www.volcanolive.com/earthquake7.html
Boobax Streamcast Television
Networks
Provides free television images from 92 countries http://bstn.free.fr/start_en.htm