This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary learners learn the science of flash flooding.

Download and print this free activity book about hurricanes, tornadoes, lightening, floods and winter storms. A quiz section is also included.

Online school for weather presents a complete guide to the ocean and its effect on our weather such as El Nino, hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Explores layers of the ocean, sea water, waves, tides, rip currents, and more. A review...

Online school for weather presents an abundance of information about thunderstorms. Discover how they form, the different types, their hazards, and what to do if there is a risk for severe weather. A review quiz and lesson plans are...

Observe various severe weather phenomena in this image gallery from WGBH. Weather is the combination of factors -- temperature, wind, snow or rain, and sunlight and clouds -- that happen in a specific place at a specific time. Sometimes...

A look at the weather, how it is measured, and how it is caused. Learn what weather is like all over the world, how global warming is affecting our planet, and how "extreme" conditions like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought...

This site provides a detailed report on floods and flood plains. Facts about weather patterns, zoning restrictions, and dams and levees are given along with diagrams and photos.

The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service work together to provide information at this site about floods. The site talks about two main topics on floods, stream gaging and flood forecasting.

Discover what experts view as the top weather related events of the 20th century, get background information on them and see photos. Some of the events covered are the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the 1930s Dust Bowl, Hurricanes Camille...

Click on the links to find guides to weather and natural disaster safety tips for earthquakes, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, avalanches, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, and winter storms.

During this lesson, students will discover the differences in four types of weather disasters. They will collect information from selected Internet websites and create a multimedia presentation to demonstrate what they have learned.

Residents of the normally idyllic Italian island of Sardinia were recently subjected to severe cyclone damage and flooding. Find out why Prime Minister Enrico Letta has declared this a national tragedy.

Web site that contains detailed statistics involving natural disasters by year and type of disaster. Statistics are available in .pdf format.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart from New Zealand looks at extreme weather conditions from tornadoes to floods, their causes and effects.

Features data collection for natural disasters and maps the trends giving us an idea of where disasters have a tendency to strike.

USA Today studies floods and has links to flood preparedness. Article from April, 2005.

Find out everything you ever wanted to know about rain and floods. From rain formation to flood safety tips, this site provides great information.

From ABC News in Science, this article deals primarily with the affect on severe weather brought about by climate change. The article also deals with the risk brought about by this severe weather.

A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these,...

Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...

This resource presents many science lessons with related activities for students in grades 6-8. Content addresses tools for coping with disasters such as tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness.

This learning module looks at tropical storms. It explains the characteristics of a tropical storm, how they form, how they are predicted, and their frequency. Includes student tasks, graphs, videos, and an interactive animation of...

This August, 2005, report discusses problems with the levees that protect New Orleans and why they failed causing 80 percent of New Orleans to flood. RealAudio of this report is also available.

Here is a lengthy activity for student to work on while learning about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Students will enjoy researching these disasters and applying what they have learned to a project.