USA Today
Usa Today: Floods Are One of Weather's Biggest Killers
USA Today studies floods and has links to flood preparedness. Article from April, 2005.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Johnstown Flood
Examine this historical account of the Johnstown Flood and how it impacted Pennsylvania's history.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Forest, Field and Flood
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Forest, Field and Flood by Daniel Defoe, a book of children's fiction.
Other
Biblical Evidence for the Universality of the Genesis Flood
An interesting paper from the Geoscience Research Institute on the flood account from Genesis.
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Pima Legend of the Flood on Superstition Mountain
English text of the Pima legend "The Flood on Superstition Mountain."
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Floods in Mexico, 1999, Corruption Makes It Worse
A news article about floods in Mexico and how corruption adds to the misery.
BBC
Bbc: Rain Triggers Deadly Floods in Haiti
This article discusses the floods occurring in Haiti following the earthquake and their effects on the country's struggling population. (February 28, 2010)
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Rain & Floods
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about rain and floods. From rain formation to flood safety tips, this site provides great information.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Floodplain Modeling
Students explore the impact of changing river volumes and different floodplain terrain in experimental trials with table top-sized riverbed models. The models are made using modeling clay in aluminum baking pans placed on a slight...
PBS
Nova: Mystery of the Megaflood
This interactive site provides geologic evidence for one of the world's largest prehistoric floods. Nova's interactive map has numerous pictures of the Scabland's geologic features formed when Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam gave way and...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Learn the Issues: Flooding
This site provides real-world issues as well as the scientific research and technology used to support the EPA's mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Relationships Between Tree Ring Dating, Wildfires, and Floods
In this lesson young scholars will understand the four spheres of the earth and how they relate to one another. This project uses a combination of Internet investigations and multiple field investigations to develop an understanding of...
BBC
Bbc: Week of 11 18 13: Sardinia Hit by Deadly Cyclone Cleopatra and Floods
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.
Other
National Flood Insurance Program
This page provides several links to resources about the National Flood Insurance Program.
Other
Saudio Aramco World: The Last Nile Flood
An article regarding the yearly flooding of the Nile River.
Bible.org
Genesis: From Paradise to Patriarchs: The Flood (Genesis 6:9 8 :22)
This resource presents a Biblical study of the Flood.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Flash Floods Hit Northern Afghanistan
Article reports on a deadly flash flood in Afghanistan and what is being done to rescue those affected.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Flood Myths
This unit focuses on myths regarding flood stories and the common elements within them. Read various myths from around the world and test your knowledge of flood myths by completing the crossword puzzle.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Notes by Flood and Field" by Bret Harte
Text of the short story "Notes by Flood and Field" by American author Bret Harte. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water, Water Everywhere
Young scholars learn about floods, discovering that different types of floods occur from different water sources, but primarily from heavy rainfall. While floods occur naturally and have benefits such as creating fertile farmland,...
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Natural Hazards Programs: Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk [Pdf]
This site provides links to articles about natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, floods, etc.
Curated OER
Dam During a Flood
A CNN image of massive flooding that occurred in Montreal on July of 1996.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Flood Blamed on Levee Breaches
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.
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