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When Natural Hazards Become Human Disasters
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g68/fonhuman.html
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This lesson plan will help students gain a better understanding of natural events and consider the dangers that natural hazards and natural disasters pose to humans. Through writing and by gathering and comparing data, students will examine factors that make natural phenomena hazardous to people. They will use scientific vocabulary to summarize research about natural hazards, and compare and discuss the relative dangers posed by tornadoes, volcanoes, earthquakes, and others. The lesson can be adapted for older students is suggested as accompaniment to the film "Forces of Nature". Links to information on the film and to additional information and related topics are included.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Middle (6-8)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Lesson plan
Subject:
  • Atmospheric science
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Geology
  • Natural hazards
Technical requirements:
No specific technical requirements, just a browser required
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
Copyright 2004, National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.
DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-006-537
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • 5-8:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Evidence, models, and explanation
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • F - Science in personal / social perspectives:
        • Natural hazards
        • Risks and benefits
  • National Geography Standards:
    • Environment and society:
      • How physical systems affect human systems
    • The world in spatial terms:
      • How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: National Geographic Society, Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/