With yesterday’s terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I thought I’d pull together a separate “The Best…” list explaining tsunamis.
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The Best Sites For Learning About The Japan Earthquake & Tsunami
Useful Updates On Japan Earthquake — Part Two
The Best Sites To Learn About The Tsunami In American Samoa
The Best Resources To Learn About The Indian Ocean Tsunami (On Its Five-Year Anniversary)
The Best Sites For Learning About The Volcano & Tsunami In Indonesia
Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Tsunamis:
How Tsunamis Work From How Stuff Works
The Christian Science Monitor lists the five most devastating tsunamis.
Slate explains why is Crescent City, Calif. is so susceptible to tsunamis.
Tsunami explained is an interactive from The BBC.
Woods Hole has an interactive.
The Destructive Power of Water is a useful New York Times article.
California’s tsunami threat is from The Los Angeles Times
Tsunamis: A Primer comes from The New York Review of Books
Here’s the TED-Ed lesson that goes with this next video:
The devastating power of a tsunami. (Japan, 2011) pic.twitter.com/FCIUBz2dAH
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) October 31, 2019
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Larry,
Thank you so much for compiling this list of great sites for such a teachable moment. I intend to lay aside my Science plans for one day to allow the students a chance to explore and investigate this more in-depth. I know many will have questions (5th graders) as a few have already emailed me. Thanks again.
Hi Larry,
You’ve probably come across this one:
http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html
Learners get to choose between different disaster types (including a tsunami) and have to develop the local area to minimise and / or prevent destruction.
Quite a nice insight into what needs to be done. Does take quite a long time to play though!
All the best,
David