Weekend Website #93: 17 Natural Disasters Websites

Every Friday, I’ll send you a wonderful website (or more) that my classes and mywildfire

parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.

My fourth graders just went through a unit of inquiry on natural disasters and we came up with a pretty good list of resources. I want to share them with you. Please add your own to the comment section:

  1. Avalanches
  2. Earthquake simulations
  3. Earthquakes
  4. Earthquakes for Kids
  5. Earthquakes–USGS
  6. Hurricanes
  7. Natural disaster videos
  8. Natural disasters—National Geographic
  9. Natural disasters–resources
  10. Savage Earth
  11. Storm Chasing
  12. Tornadoes
  13. Tornadoes II
  14. Tsunamis
  15. Volcano Underwater
  16. Volcano videos
  17. Volcanoes


Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Author: Jacqui
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