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Topic:
- Disaster,
Catastrophe &
Calamity
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- Easier - A disaster
is an event that causes great damage, loss, or
distress. Catastrophes such as earthquakes can happen
suddenly and cause massive destruction. Some people
think that calamity is just bad luck, while others
seek out reasons for their misfortune.
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- Harder - There are
many types of disasters. Natural disasters such as
volcanoes and floods can be devastating for entire
countries. Catastrophes are difficult to predict and
often impossible to prevent. A disaster area often
qualifies for emergency government assistance. The
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) helps
people who have suffered loss in a disaster. In the
case of accidents such as a plane crash or train
derailment, the tragedy can sometimes be blamed on
human error. However often a whole series of events
may cause the tragedy. People usually look for a cause
and try to prevent the problem from happening again.
It is hoped that we have learned from environmental
and disease catastrophes such as the Chernobyl nuclear
power station crisis, the Ebola Virus outbreak, and
Exxon Valdez spill. In some cases such as the Branch
Davidian stand-off, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and
the Heaven's Gate suicides, the calamities are rooted
in human psychology and may be even more difficult to
prevent.
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- Disaster
Relief sponsored by IBM, Red Cross, and
CNN
- http://www.disasterrelief.org/
- This site provides information about Worldwide
disaster aid.
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- Federal
Emergency Management Agency
- http://www.fema.gov/
- FEMA is an independent agency of the federal
government whose mission is to help people before,
during, and after disasters.
- Websection for Kids:
- 2) FEMA for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/icons.htm
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- Natural
Hazard Watch and Warning
- http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/om/nh-mastr.htm
- This site provides safety rules for tornadoes,
hurricanes, floods, flash floods,
thunderstorms/lightning, winter storms.
- Related Websites:
- 2) How to Prepare for an Emergency! http://theepicenter.com/howto.html
- 3) Safety Rules for Various Weather Hazards
http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/er/pit/tsafety.htm
- 4) Severe Weather Safety Guide http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/er/pit/safe.htm
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- Natural
Disasters
- http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1029/NaturalDisasters.html
- This site provides information about natural
disasters in the Oceania regions.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Living Almanac of Disasters http://disasterium.com/
- 3) Natural Disaster Reference Database http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/
- 4) Natural Disasters and Catastrophes and Some
Related Environmental Matters by M. Ferris
- http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.ferris/
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- After visiting several of the
websites, complete one or more of these
projects.
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- Pick Two and Compare, Contrast.
Choose two of the events. Then compare and
contrast them. Were they caused by humans,
a natural occurrence, or both? Recent
theory of disasters and mishaps points
toward a complex event preceded by layers
or a series of conditions. Investigate the
occurrence in terms of a sequence of
contributing factors. Could the event have
been prevented or lessened by human
intervention?
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- Rate the Agency. Learn more
about FEMA (Federal
Emergency Management Agency). Are they
doing a good job? Why or why not? What
changes would you suggest in the way we
handle disasters?
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- Complete a
Disaster,
Catastrophe or Calamity Webquest.
Follow or adapt the procedures that you
find at one of these WebQuest
sites:
- 1) Catastrophic
Weather Event: The Dust Bowl 1936-1940
- http://edweb.sdsu.edu/t2arp/quest/dustbowl/dust_bowl_webquest3.html
- 2) Discovering
World Disasters (Grade 5) http://k-lschools.org/webquest/disasters/disaster.htm
- 3) George Armstrong Custer: Battle of
Little Big Horn (Grades 9-12)
- http://grossmont.gcccd.cc.ca.us/history/history8.htm
- 4) Love Canal Debate (Grades
6-12)
- http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/LoveCanal/index.htm
- 5) Natural
Disasters by W. Crowley and L. Sherouse
(Grade 5)
- http://www.nhptv.org/kn/nhema/webquest/naturald.htm
- 6) Natural
Disasters by E. Hlavaty (Grades 4-5)
- http://members.tripod.com/%7Eehlavaty/natldis.html
- 7) Natural
Disasters Site at Univ. of
Michigan
- http://www.umich.edu/%7Eaaps/disaster/dszt_wel.htm
- 8) Powers of
Nature: Natural Disasters by P. Bernard
(Grades 4-8)
- http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/pbernard/natdisasters/webquest.htm
- 9) The Cow
Didn't Do It by B. DeFelice and C. Heuck
- http://www.d171.s-cook.k12.il.us/nathan/lessons/fire/cowdidn.htm
- 10)San Francisco
Earthquake 1906 http://www.kodiak.k12.ak.us/schools/pete/teachers/gibbs/earthquake/sanfrancisco/sanfran.html
- 11)Titanic: What
Can Numbers Tell Us About Her Fatal
Voyage? by T. Atkins and B.
McManus
- http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/titanic.html
- 12)What's the Real Story? A Titanic
Webquest (Grade 7-8) http://wapiti.pvs.k12.nm.us/~maxwell/TitanicWebquest.htm
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- Tell of Your Own Disaster.
Disasters can be large or small. They seem
to touch everyone. Write a story telling
of your most memorable disaster. Or, write
a historical fiction story using facts
from a real disaster. What would it have
been like to be on the Titanic or to live
in Chernobyl?
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- Learn from the Past. Humans can
learn from both natural and human-made
disasters. Select a disaster and discuss
what we learned from the catastrophe. For
example, we now celebrate Fire Prevention
Week because of the Great Chicago Fire.
Invent a special event or list of lessons
we learned from the disaster you
study.
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- Help the Cause. Learn more
about one of the organizations
that helps with disaster relief. What is
their mission? How are they funded? Create
a poster sharing what people can do to
help support this organization.
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- Stay Healthy. Agent
Orange, Ebola
Virus, Thalidomide,
and Fen-Phen
were all at the center of health
disasters. Visit the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention.
What is their role in disaster
preparation, investigation, and
prevention? Create a timeline of events
related to a health catastrophe. Who was
impacted by the calamity? Who is
responsible? How can this be prevented in
the future?
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- Prediction, Protection, and
Prevention. Scientists are learning
more and more about predicting,
preventing, and protecting against natural
disasters. Trace the history of what we've
learned about natural disasters such as
tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes,
hurricanes, and floods. What have we
learned? What's the next step in
predicting, protecting, and/or preventing
these disasters?
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- Websites By Kids for Kids
- Chernobyl:
A Nuclear Disaster (1996 ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/3426/
- The volcanic-like explosion at the Chernobyl
nuclear power station on Saturday, April 26, 1986, was
probably the world's largest nuclear accident.
- Similar ThinkQuest Project:
- 2) Physics of Chernobyl (2000 ThinkQuest
Project) http://library.thinkquest.org/C002190F/
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- Committee
for the Citizens' Protection from Floods (1999
ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/28986/Homeing.htm
- For many years flooding had been the main problem
of this land (12 flooding events occurred in the last
60 years), causing high risks even for the
peoples safety. The selected approach to the
problem was to understand the reason of these events,
looking at the type of land management, in order to
cope with them for the future, preventing or at least
reducing the damaging effects.
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- Disasters
(2000 ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/C004218/
- This site covers four types of disasters: oil
spills, nuclear disasters, volcanoes and
earthquakes.
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- Disasters:
Natural or Manmade (1999 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6267/
- This web site tells about natural disasters such
as hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and tsunamis. It
also explores some well known industrial disasters
including Chernobyl, Exxon-Valdez, the Challenger, the
Hindenburg, and the Titanic.
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- International
Disasters of the Last Century (1999
ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/26568/
- This webpage is a compilation of some of the worst
disasters of the last century: Titanic, Mount Pelee,
Hurricane Andrew, Tri-State tornado, Ebola virus
outbreaks, and the San Francisco earthquake.
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- Lost
Liners: Earth's Once Great Ships (1998
ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/17297/
- This site explores the history and the causes of
each maritime disaster. The wrecks of the Titanic, the
Normandie, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, and the
Empress of Ireland are covered.
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- Natural
Disasters (1997 ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/10136/
- Nine different natural disasters are examined
here: bush fires, cyclones, drought, earthquakes,
famine, floods, tornadoes, tsunami, and
volcanoes.
- Similar Webquest Projects:
- 2) Danger Zone: Natural Disasters (2000
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J001550F/
- 3) Disaster Strikes! (1999 ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/27292/maininfo.htm
- 4) Masters of Disasters (2000 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J001393/
- 5) Natural Disasters (1998 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3743/
- 6) Natural Disasters (1998
ThinkQuest Project) http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4243/
- 7) Natural Disasters (1999 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5106/
- 8) Natural Disasters (1999 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5879/
- 9) Natural Disasters (1999 ThinkQuest
Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/27984/enindex.htm
- 10)Natural Disasters: Destructive Forces of Nature
(1998 ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/16132/
- 11)Natural Disasters, It's a Way of Life (2000
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J002294F/
- 12)Natural Disasters - The Terror of our Lives
(2000 ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J003341/naturaldisaste/index.htm
- 13)Natural Disasters "Without Warning" (2000
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J001382F/
- 14)Natural Killers (1999 ThinkQuest Junior
Project) http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5743/
- 15)Plate Tectonic Natural Disasters! (2000
ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J002319/
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- Pollution
(1998 ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/21939/contents.htm
- On the night of March 23, 1989, the oil tanker
Exxon Valdez ran into a submerged reef, and spilled
eleven million gallons of oil into the waters of
Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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- Prince
William Sound: Paradise Lost? (1997
ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/10867/
- Oil has had a major effect on Alaska for many
years both before and since the Exxon Valdez disaster
in 1989, when 11 million gallons of it spilled into
Prince William Sound.
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- Titanic
Was No Disaster...What Happened to Her Was!
(1997 ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/12687/
- This site has the story of the shipyard where the
boat was built and the personalities behind the ship's
birth are delineated from a local viewpoint. Using a
chapter-type approach, the web site illuminates hidden
facets of the history behind this great disaster.
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- More Disasters,
Catastrophes & Calamities
- Agent
Orange
- http://lewispublishing.com/orange.htm
- This site provides information about the herbicide
Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War, and the results
of exposure to this herbicide. See also:
Vietnam
War.
- Other Agent Orange Resources:
- 2) Agent Orange Revisited at the Why Files
http://whyfiles.org/025chem_weap/dioxin.html
- 3) Agent Orange and Related Issues (Fact Sheet
2000) http://www.va.gov/pressrel/aofs00.htm
- 4) Air Force Health Study http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/HED/hedb/afhs/afhs.shtml
- 5) Guide on Agent Orange from Vietnam Veterans
of America http://www.vva.org/Benefits/vvgagent.htm
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- Amazing
Story of Kudzu
- http://www.cptr.ua.edu/kudzu/
- There's so much of this fast-growing vine in the
Southeastern U.S., you might think it was a native
plant. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help
kudzu spread so widely. Now that it covers over seven
million acres of the deep South, there are a lot of
people working hard to get rid of it!
- Other Kudzu Websites:
- 2) Chad's Kudzu World http://www.pbe.com/Kudzu/Kudzu.html
- 3) Kudzu: The Vine http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/
- 4) Kudzu Collection http://www.ipass.net/~lineback/kud.htm
- 5) Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) http://www.gaeppc.org/html/kudzu.html
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- Branch
Davidian Waco Siege at University of
Louisville
- http://www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/waco.html
- This links-site connects to information sites
regarding the tragedy.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Evaluation of the Handling of the Branch
Davidian Stand-off in Waco, Texas, Feb. 28 to April
19, 1993 from U.S. Department of Justice
- http://www.usdoj.gov/05publications/wacoeval.htm
- 3) Waco Revisited at Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/waco/
- 4) Waco: The Inside Story from PBS
Frontline
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/home.html
- 5) Waco Watch at FindLaw http://waco.findlaw.com/
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- Challenger
Disaster: 10 Years Later
- http://www.lifemag.com/Life/space/challenger.html
- All over the country, the millions watching that
awful bloom spread across their television screens
realized that something had gone wrong.
- More Challenger Websites:
- 2) Challenger: Our Disaster by Jarett Epstein
- http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enwr1016/jke8e/challeng.html
- 3) Challenger Remembered: The Shuttle Challenger's
Final Voyage from CBS News
- http://cbsnews.cbs.com/network/news/space/51Lintro.html
- 4) Challenger Shuttle at BBC Education
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/archive/disaster/challeng.shtml
- 5) Information on STS-51L/Challenger from
NASA
- http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sts51l.html
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- Chernobyl
Nuclear Disaster
- http://www.chernobyl.co.uk/
- On April 25th -26th, 1986 the World's worst
nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the
former USSR (now Ukraine).
- Related Websites:
- 2) Chernobyl - The Accident http://www.bellona.no/imaker?sub=1&id=12663
- 3) Chernobyl Initiatives http://insp.pnl.gov:2080/?chorninit/chorninit
- 4) Chernoby Nuclear Reactor Failure http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/reactor.htm
- 5) Chernobyl: The Disaster and its Legacy by
Graham Young
- http://www.geocities.com/graham_young_uk/Chernobyl.html
- 6) Dr. Meshkati's Page on Chernobyl http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~meshkati/chernobyl.html
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- Donner
Party
- http://www.deepwell.com/~anthonyj/
- The Donners' choice of Hastings's Cutoff was a
terrible miscalculation. The majority of these
unfortunates would spend a starving, frozen winter
trapped on the wrong side of the mountains, over six
thousand feet above sea level.
- More Donner Party Websites:
- 2) Donner Party http://www.teleport.com/~mhaller/
- 3) Donner Party (Transcript of The American
Experience)
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/donner/donnerts.html
- 4) Donner Party by D.M. Rosen http://members.aol.com/DanMRosen/donner/
- 5) Donner Party: Emigrants Unable to Resist Lure
of the American West
- http://www.tahoe.com/Truckee/almanac97/donnerpartystory.html
- 6) New Light on the Donner Party by K.
Johnson
- http://www.metrogourmet.com/crossroads/KJhome.htm
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- Ebola
Virus Hemorrhagic Fever: General
Information
- http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/publications/brochures/ebolainf.htm
- This site has general information about the Ebola
virus.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Containment and Control of the Ebola Virus
Outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mce1535/index.html
- 3) Ebola Outbreaks - Updates http://www.bocklabs.wisc.edu/outbreak.html
- 4) General Information on Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic
Fever http://www.aomc.org/ComDiseases/EbolaVirus.html
- 5) Global Microbial Threats in the 1990s http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/CISET/html/iintro.html
- 6) Reemergence of Ebola Virus in Africa http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol1no3/sanchez.htm
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- Great
Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory
- http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/intro/
- Learn of the history of the great fire that
started around 9 o'clock on Sunday evening, October 8,
1871, somewhere in or very near the O'Leary barn.
- Related Websites:
- 2) 1871 The Great Fire http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/greatfire.html
- 3) Cause of the Great Chicago Fire! by R.F. Bales
http://www.geocities.com/~bales1/
- 4) Great Chicago Fire http://www.prairieghosts.com/great_fire.html
- 5) Great Chicago Fire 1871 http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/K12/GreatEvents/Chicago.html
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- Great
1906 Earthquake And Fire from Museum of the
City of San Francisco
- http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html
- This website has extensive information about the
1906 earthquake.
- More San Francisco Earthquake Sites:
- 2) 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/1906earth.html
- 3) Frequently Asked Questions http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/faq/1906_0.html
- 4) Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/1906/
- 5) San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 http://www.ibiscom.com/sfeq.htm
- 6) Story of an Eyewitness by Jack London,
Collier's special Correspondent http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Journalism/sfearthquake.html
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- Hydrogen
Exonerated in Hindenburg Disaster by J.C.
Bokow
- http://www.ttcorp.com/nha/advocate/ad22zepp.htm
- This website discusses evidence that suggests that
hydrogen was not to blame for the disaster.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Interview with Mr. Butsher http://www.gzg.fn.bw.schule.de/stadt/zeppelin/10e_int.htm
- 3) LZ-129 Hindenburg http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA/greatzeps/german/Hindenburg.html
- 4) True Story of Hydrogen and the 'Hindenburg'
Disaster from the Congressional Record
http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/congress/1998/s981006-zep.htm
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- Invasive
Pests
- http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ea/uschina/chbeet.htm
- This links-site connects to
information sites about the U.S. invasion of the Asian
Longhorned Beetle.
- Related
Website:
- 2) Gypsy Moth in North
America http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/morgantown/4557/gmoth/
- 3) Invasive and Exotic Insects at University of
Georgia http://www.invasive.org/Insects/insects.html
- 4) Invasive Species http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/invasive.htm
- 5) Invasive Species at BOMIS
- http://www.bomis.com/rings/Minvasive_species-insects-science/
- 6) Invasive Species at eduScapes 42eXplore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/invasive.htm
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- Inside
Three Mile Island: Minute by Minute
- http://www.wowpage.com/tmi/
- On March 28, 1979, as the sun rose over
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a series of mechanical,
electrical, and human failures led to what has been
described as the worst nuclear power plant accident in
the history of the United States.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Accident at Three Mile Island from the
Uranium Institute http://www.uilondon.org/safety/tmi.htm
- 3) Meltdown at Three Mile Island from PBS's The
American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/three/
- 4) Nuclear Nightmare in Pennsylvania from the
Washington Post
- http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tmi/tmi.htm
- 5) Three Mile Island: A Splendid Little Reactor
http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/3mile.htm
- 6) Three Mile Island Event http://www.cannon.net/~gonyeau/nuclear/tmi.htm
- 7) Three Mile Island: 20 Years Later at Living
on Earth http://www.loe.org/series/three/three.htm
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- Japanese
Internment Camps
- http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/j1.htm
- On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066 that forced 120,000 persons of
Japanese ancestry into 10 internment camps. About the
same time, the Canadian government interned 26,000
Japanese Canadians.
- Similar Websites:
- 2) Children of the Camps: The Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
- 3) Exclusion of the Ethnic Japanese from the US
West Coast in 1942 http://www.webcom.com/unk/pc/race/intern.shtml
- 4) Japanese American Internment http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
- 5) Japanese Internment Camps: A Personal Account
http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/life.htm
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- Johnstown
Flood National Memorial
- http://www.nps.gov/jofl/home.htm
- Here you learn the story of the 1889 flood that
devastated Pennsylvania.
- More Johnstown Flood Sites:
- 2) History of the Johnstown Flood from Online
Book http://prr.railfan.net/documents/JohnstownFlood/
- 3) Johnstown Flood http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GIsenberg/flood.htm
- Related Websites:
- 4) Flood: Dealing with the Deluge at NOVA
Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/deluge.html
- 5) Floods at Newton's Apple http://www.askeric.org/Projects/Newton/12/Lessons/floods.html
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- Lakota
Noon at the Greasy Grass by G. Michno
- http://www.thehistorynet.com/WildWest/articles/06962_text.htm
- When Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's
7th Cavalry approached the large teepee village on
June 25, 1876, it was 'high noon' for the Northern
Plains Indians.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Archaeology & History of Custer's Last
Battle http://www.custerbattle.com/
- 3) Custer's Last Stand: Battle of the Little Big
Horn http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_places/little_big_horn_custers_
- last_stand/little_big_horn_custers_last_stand.html
- 4) Little Big Horn from the New York Times
http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/Documents/War/America/Indian/1876-
- BigHorn-Times.htm
- 5) Report on the Battle of Little Big Horn by
Major M.A. Reno http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/America/Indian/1876-BigHorn-Reno.htm
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- Love
Canal, U.S.A.
- http://web.globalserve.net/~spinc/atomcc/lovecana.htm
- The nickname 'Love Canal'
came from the last name of William Love who in 1896
began digging a canal connecting Lake Ontario and Lake
Erie (bypassing Niagara Falls) in order to serve as a
water power conduit. It was never completed but the
Hooker Chemical Company, located west of the canal,
had the ingenious idea of turning the uncompleted
canal into a dumping ground for the chemical
byproducts of its manufacturing process.
- Related
Websites:
- 2) Love Canal
http://www.onlineethics.org/text/cases/l.canal/main.html
- 3) Guide to Love Canal Collection: Documents
Online at State Univ. of New York, Buffalo
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/lovecanal/documents_online.html
- 4) History of the Love Canal http://www.essential.org/cchw/lovcanal/lcsum.html
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- Mount
St. Helens
- http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/msh.html
- Here you can learn about the people and events
before, during, and after the eruption.
- Other Mount St. Helens Sites:
- 2) Eruption of Mount Saint Helen: Blowing Your
Top
- http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/volcano.htm
- 3) Forest Learning Center at Mount St. Helens
(Weyerhaeuser) http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/sthelens/
- 4) Mount St. Helens, A General Slide Set http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/helens/slides/slide.htm
- 5) Mount. St. Helens Archive at Tidepool
http://www.tidepool.org/id.sthelens.cfm
- 6) Mount St. Helens, Washington at
USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver,
Washington http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/framework.html
- 7) Remembering Mount St. Helens at ABC News
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/mount_st_helens000518.html
- 8) Which After Effect of the 1980 Mount St. Helens
Eruption had the Greatest Impact on River Drainage?
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/geo/iainsub/studwebpage/tooley/karen.htm
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- Paradoxes
of Heaven's Gate by D.R. Forsyth, Virginia
Commonwealth University
- http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/psy/psy633/hg.htm
- Here you find a social psychological analysis of
the Heaven's Gate incident.
- More Information on Heaven's Gate:
- 2) Cult's Two-Decade Odyssey of Regimentation by
F. Bruni from New York Times http://www.rickross.com/reference/gate2.html
- 3) One Year Later, Heaven's Gate Suicide Leaves
Only Faint Trail http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/25/heavens.gate/
- 4) On the Furthest Fringes of Millennialism by G.
Niebuhr from New York Times http://www.rickross.com/reference/gate5.html
-
- Preliminary
Report: Hurricane Andrew, 16-18 August, 1992
by E. Rappaport from National Hurricane
Center
- http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/1992andrew.html
- Andrew was a small and ferocious Cape Verde
hurricane that wrought unprecedented economic
devastation along a path through the northwestern
Bahamas, the southern Florida peninsula, and
south-central Louisiana.
- More Hurricane Andrew Sites:
- 2) Hurricane Andrew http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9200/
- 3) Hurricane Andrew, August 16-27, 1992 at
Suite 101 http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/louisiana/44863
- 4) Hurricane Andrew by M. Mayfield, L. Avila,
& E.N. Rappaport, Monthly Weather Review
article http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/andrew/andrew_article.html
-
- Response
to the Exxon Valdez Spill from Office of
Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
- http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/intro/valdez.html
- Within hours after the tanker Exxon Valdez spilled
nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's
Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989, a team of
scientists arrived on-scene to begin containment and
cleanup.
- Other Related Websites:
- 2) Exxon Valdez Office of Oil Spill Damage
Assessment and Restoration http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/oil/
- 3) Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: America's Largest
Spill
- http://www.boisestate.edu/history/ncasner/hy210/valdez.htm
- 4) Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration http://www.oilspill.state.ak.us/
- 5) Prince William Sound: Paradise Lost? The Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill (1998 ThinkQuest Project)
http://library.thinkquest.org/10867/
-
- Surviving
the Dust Bowl from PBS's American
Experience
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/
- A catastrophic eight-year drought in the Southern
Plains states led observers to rename the region 'The
Dust Bowl.'
- Other Dust Bowl Sites:
- 2) 1930's Dust Bowl (Excerpts from 'The Dust
Bowl, Men, Dirt and Depression' by Paul
Bonnifield) http://www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbowl.html
- 3) Dust Bowl at Between the Wars http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/dust/dust.html
- 4) Voices from the Dust Bowl from PBS's
American Memories http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
-
- Thalidomide
at Britannica.com Inc.
- http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,73784+1+71913,00.html
- This site explains about a medical compound that
was initially used as a sedative and an antiemetic
until the discovery that it caused severe fetal
malformations.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Right Lesson To Learn From Thalidomide by S.B.
Harris http://w3.aces.uiuc.edu:8001/Liberty/Tales/Thalidomide.Html
- 3) Second Thoughts About Thalidomide by C. Blaney
http://pharminfo.com/pubs/msb/thalidomide.html
- 4) Thalidomide: Important Patient Information
http://www.fda.gov/cder/news/thalidomide.htm
- 5) Thalidomide Victims Association of Canada
(TVAC) http://www.thalidomide.ca/
-
- Tiananmen
Square Massacre
- http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/~nwhist/china/MCPHAIL.html
- In April of 1989, over a million students,
doctors, professors, laborers from factories, and
writers gathered to demonstrate for democracy in
Beijing, China(Sizer 208). The location of this
assembly was Tiananmen Square.
- Other Websites:
- 2) Textbook Turmoil at Tiananmen Square http://mcjester.cjb.net/tiananmen.html
- 3) Tiananmen Square Massacre (Links-site)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~wennanwu/pathfinder.htm
- 4) Tiananmen Square Massacre http://www.insidechina.com/special/tianan/tianan1.php3
-
- Titanic
- http://www.andersonkill.com/titanic/home.htm
- This site houses a process for a mock trial based
on actual events from the Titanic disaster.
- Other Titanic Websites:
- 2) Encyclopedia Titanica http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/index.html
- 3) Molly Brown: (a) Molly
Brown House Museum, (b) Margaret
"Molly" Brown, (c) The
Unsinkable Molly Brown
- 4) Titanic at the Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/titanic.htm
- 5) Titanic: The Search for Answers http://www.execpc.com/~reva/html3.htm
-
- Triangle
Shirtwaist Fire by P. Rosa
- http://www.historybuff.com/library/refshirtwaist.html
- The date was March 25, 1911. At 4:45 p.m. the bell
rang signaling that the workday was done. As the girls
were gathering their belongings and putting on their
coats someone yelled "Fire!"
- Similar Websites:
- 2) Leap for Life, Leap of Death http://www.csun.edu/~ghy7463/mw2.html
- 3) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at
About.com http://womenshistory.about.com/homework/womenshistory/cs/triangle/
- 4) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Part I http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/labor_history/24709
- 5) Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Part II http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/labor_history/25386
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- Two
Diet Drugs Pulled from Market
- http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9709/htm/fen-phen.htm
- Doctors at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and
MeritCare, Fargo, N.D., first identified heart valve
problems associated with use of the fen-phen.
- More Information:
- 2) Doctors: 'Fen-phen' Diet Drug Not a Cause for
Public Health Panic http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9809/07/fen.phen/
- 3) Fen-Phen Information from the Center for
Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA) http://www.fda.gov/cder/news/feninfo.htm
- 4) Heart Valve Disease and Fen-phen
- http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9707/htm/fen-phen.htm
-
- Witchcraft
in Salem Village
- http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
- This site introduces the infamous of 1692, and is
designed to provide accurate general information about
these events, as well as information on other aspects
of the history of Danvers (formerly Salem Village),
Massachusetts.
- Other Salem Witch Trial Sites:
- 2) Salem Witch Museum http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
- 3) Salem Witch Trials http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/salem.html
- 4) Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692 (Famous American
Trials ) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM
-
- Zebra
Mussel Information from the National Zebra
Mussel Information Network
- http://nas.er.usgs.gov/zebra.mussel/
- This website provides information for the
management and control of the zebra mussel (Dreissena
polymorpha).
- More Zebra Mussel Websites:
- 2) Exotic Zebra Mussel by A.J. Benson http://www.fws.gov/r3pao/eco_serv/endangrd/news/zebra.html
- 3) Life History and Ecological Requirements of the
Zebra Mussel - North American Experience Through 1992
http://www.nsgo.seagrant.org/research/nonindigenous/zmlifehistory.html
- 4) Zebra Mussel Page http://www.science.wayne.edu/~jram/zmussel.htm
- 5) Zebra Mussel: Dreissena polymorpha http://nas.er.usgs.gov/zebra.mussel/docs/sp_account.html
- 6) Invasive Species at eduScapes 42eXplore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/invasive.htm
-
- Websites For Teachers
- After
the Deluge (Grades 6 to 12)
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/991222wednesday.html
- In this lesson, students examine why floods occur
and the techniques that can be used to stall or
prevent them from happening. Students investigate, in
small groups, different flood prevention techniques
(levees, dams, reservoirs, and floodways) and create
models based on their research that demonstrate how
their techniques work.
-
- Exxon
Valdez Disaster (Grades 3-6) by P.
Chandler
- http://www.challenge.state.la.us/edres/lessons/elementary/lesson8.htm
- A part of a unit on the environment, this plan
focuses on the damage and cleanup of the oil
spill.
-
- Great
Chicago Fire Web Site Rich in Language Arts
from Education World
- http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson080.shtml
- This lesson planning article explores the historic
fire in ways that engender rich language arts
activities.
-
- Invasion
of an Exotic Species: Stop the Zebra Mussel!
(Grades 8 - 12) by V. Clark & T. Miller
- http://www.vims.edu/adv/ed/zm/zmtxt.html
- The activities and resources presented in this
lesson guides students in a study of the zebra mussel
and the possibilities of its invasion of
Virginia.
-
- Japanese
American Internment: American Concentration Camp or
Reasonable Response to National Security?
(Grades 9-12)
- http://ncctest.netreach.net/sections/teacher/lesson_plans/html/70625a.asp
- This lesson asks students to evaluate the U.S.
government action in the case of the Japanese-American
internment and decide whether the government acted
properly within its constitutionally defined
powers.
-
- National
Tragedy, Global Response (Grades 6-12)
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/990818wednesday.html
- In this lesson, students explore how different
people on local, national and international levels
respond to a destructive natural disaster and the
needs of its victims and how various facets of the
media cover such an event, focusing specifically on
the earthquake that devastated Turkey on August 17,
1999.
-
- Titanic
Disasters (Grades 6-12)
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/990408thursday.html
- In this lesson plan, students contemplate the
worst man-made disasters in history, focusing on the
Titanic.
-
- Toxic
Waste in Grand Banks (Grades 10-12)
- http://www.fte.org/ztoxicwaste.html
- This lesson is an assessment task in which
students investigate the issues of economic
prosperity, environmental concerns, government
intervention in the market economy and responsible
civic participation in solving community
problems.
-
- Children
of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at
Weedpatch Camp (Grades 4-8) by J. Stanley
- http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~orono/collaborative/dustbowl.html
- This lesson covers the causes of the Dust Bowl,
the subsequent migration of the Okies to California,
their experiences after they arrived, and the
development of the school at Weedpatch Camp.
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