Tsunami Resources

Tsunami Resources

CNN Student News/ - Good clear explanations

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/education/2011/03/13/sn.0314.cnn

The NY Times Learning Network

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/teaching-ideas-the-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan/?ref=education

Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/newsgraphics/2011/0311-japan-earthquake-map/index.html

How Shifting Plates Caused the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/11/world/asia/maps-of-earthquake-and-tsunami-damage-in-japan.html#panel/1

Scholastic News – Earthquake/tsunami in Japan

(article from website)

Text only version

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3755883&print=1

How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/12/world/asia/the-explosion-at-the-japanese-reactor.html

“Nature Wages War” articles

http://bit.ly/bundles/findingdulcinea/5

Dulcinea has created a series of articles titled "Nature Wages War," to provide teachers with resources for teaching about earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and other natural calamities; it includes manylinks to government agency sites that have models of these events.