Introduction

Use either books or the Internet links on this page to look for good facts, quotations, examples, and images associated with either Volcanoes or Earthquakes or Tsunamis and your focus questions. You must be able to justify why you have included a particular item in your collection. Imagine that you have been on a study tour and that your items are souvenirs or other aids that you will use to teach people about what you have learned! What's collected will be displayed and discussed in class and will form the basis of later assignment work.

Keep this question in mind as you work:

(Answer for either Earthquakes or Volcanoes or Tsunamis)
What happens when an Earthquake/ volcano/ tsunami occurs? How does this affect people and property?
Are all people on the earth equally affected by earthquakes/ volcanoes/ tsunamis? Why or why not?

Instructions

1. Explore the Internet sites linked below. You're looking for facts, quotes, examples, images, sound clips, videos, and animations that you think are important aspects of the topic.

2. When you find something you like, check its Web page for a copyright notice. Often, students are encouraged to copy things that will only be used in the classroom. Sometimes people don't want their work copied at all. A good practice is looking for an e-mail link on the page and then using it to ask permission.

3. Copy any text you want by dragging across the words, then using the Edit - Copy command on the menubar. Paste what you highlighted into a basic text editor, word processor, desktop publishing program or multimedia program.

4. Save images you like by downloading them. Paste the images you've downloaded into a multimedia, paint or desktop publishing program (like HyperStudio, Clarisworks, or PageMaker) or use one of the graphics viewers listed as Tools on this page to display your collection of images.

5. Be prepared to cut anything that copyright owners tell you they don't want you to have.

6. Once you have collected your information, go over it carefully so that you can give clear and thoughtful reasons why you found the things you collected especially important.
   

The Internet Resources

Earthquakes

• How stuff works: Earthquakes - Excellent pictures and text

• Eathquakes for kids - Excellent activities and animations

• Virtual Times - Recent earthquakes and volcanoes

• Understanding earthquakes - Quizzes and animations and text to help you in understanding earthquakes

• Discovery on-line (TLC) - Rock your world interactives

• USGS Earthquakes Hazard Program - Illustrated glossary

• Fault Motion - Animated diagrams

• Savage Earth - Features natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. Animations and text

• Eyewitness accounts from Turkey quake - Read what it is like to be in a quake

• Largest Earthquakes in the World since 1900 - Map and links to more details. Also check the EQ Facts and Lists links to find other details e.g. earthquake activity in the last seven days

• FAO Relief organisation - Earthquakes & Volcanoes: Possible effects

Volcanoes

• How stuff works: Volcanoes - Excellent pictures and text

• Volcano world - Research and information is provided about currently erupting volcanoes, volcano images and information, volcano video clips, a glossary, ask a vulcanologist, and teacher resources. This site is specifically for students and a search engine is provided.

• Volcanoes - Types of volcanoes and sizes of eruptions. Includes animations

• Volcanoes of Hawaii - Excellent photos in the Volcanic Hazards section

• Volcano Lovers - Why Files. News and basic information on volcanoes and volcanology in a popular format. The site is particularly useful to those who just want to find out some of the more interesting facts about volcanoes.

• How volcanoes work - This website, sponsored by NASA, describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes.

• Volcano Live - Australian volcanologist John Seach's site has photographs, information, live volcano cams, eruption news, satellite images of volcanoes from around the world.

• Virtual Time - Recent Earthquakes and volcanoes

• Savage Earth - Features natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.

• FAO Relief organisation - Earthquakes & Volcanoes: Possible effects

• Reducing the risks of volcanoes - Canadian site that evaluates some of the risks

Tsunamis

• Tsunami: the great waves - A brochure to increase awareness and knowledge of tsunamis

• USC Tsunami Research Group - World map showing locations of tsunamis and video/animations related to tsunamis

• Tsunami! - General tsunami information, tsunami survey and research information and general information

• Life of a tsunami - Illustration of the life of a tsunami

• Tsunami Pictures - From the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. Very good

• Pacific Tsunami Museum - FAQs section is very good

• Tsunamis - From the Australian Government Geoscience site

• Tsunami - Killer tsunamis in the Pacific

Tools

References

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Get definitions to many words quickly.

Grabbing Web Images

Follow a friendly step-by-step tutorial on how to grab images from the Web.