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CNN

Cnn: New Orleans Disaster Plan: Get Out of Town

For Students 9th - 10th
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Homeland Security announces the new evacuation plan for New Orleans in case of disaster. This interesting article also recaps evacuation problems that plagued New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, as well...
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BBC

Bbc: In Pictures: New Orleans Before and After

For Students 9th - 10th
Vivid slideshow of photographs of New Orleans during the flooding by Hurricane Katrina and two months later.
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BBC

Bbc: Mapping the Destruction: New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive map that allows you to see before and after pictures of areas of New Orleans. There are also two enlightening videos that shows the conditions of New Orleans in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
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BBC

Bbc: In Pictures: New Orleans Then and Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic slide show that allows you to compare areas of New Orleans in September 2005 with the city a year later in 2006.
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CNN

Cnn: New Orleans Tries to Plug Breaches

For Students 9th - 10th
September, 2005, report that explores the damage done to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, including to the levees that failed to stop the flooding of the city.
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CNN

Cnn: Katrina Evacuees Weigh Possible Return

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth report examining Hurricane Katrina evacuees and discussing the issues they face as they decide to move back to New Orleans. The New Orleans levee system, living conditions, Mayor Nagin's plan to rebuild New Orleans, and other...
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BBC

Bbc: Hard Task of Draining New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
September, 2005, article tracing the draining of the flooded New Orleans and the repairing of the levee system devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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BBC

Bbc: New Orleans: Nature's Revenge?

For Students 9th - 10th
August, 2005, report that discusses the flooding of New Orleans and the levee system designed to protect the city.
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BBC

Bbc: Drama of New Orleans' Premature Babies

For Students 9th - 10th
In an extraordinary report, the rescue of premature babies from the flooding of New Orleans brought on by Hurricane Katrina is chronicled. Along with the article is a video report.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: City Scope, New Orleans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working on strategic problem solving, peruse these resources about the problems surrounding the urban environment of New Orleans to aide with lessons.
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CNN

Cnn: New Orleans Shelters to Be Evacuated

For Students 9th - 10th
Conditions were so horrible in New Orleans that unrest was growing even in the evacuation shelters. Article discusses looting, crime, conditions of New Orleans, and other Gulf Coast areas. Article is from August, 2005.
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CNN

Cnn: Hurricane Katrina: Rebuilding

For Students 9th - 10th
Impressive interactive web page that has a great deal of information on Hurricane Katrina. Information on this site includes graph of population changes, updates on the status of housing, schools, utilities, and the status of New Orleans...
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BBC

Bbc: Thousands Return to New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the formation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, the return home of many who were evacuated by Hurricane Katrina, and the post-disaster problems in New Orleans. A video report accompanies this article. (September, 2005)
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BBC

Bbc: Fixing New Orleans' Thin Grey Line

For Students 9th - 10th
An October 2005 report on the reconstruction of the devastated New Orleans levees. The levees failed during Hurricane Katrina causing the city of New Orleans to flood.
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BBC

Bbc: New Orleans Disaster Plan Updated

For Students 9th - 10th
New Orleans, which was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, has a new disaster plan. Mayor Ray Nagin, who was criticized for the local government's response during Hurricane Katrina, approved the updated plan. (May, 2006)
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BBC

Bbc: Home a Relative Term in New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
February, 2006, report that delves into the housing market of post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and its impact on those moving back, housing prices, life for those who stayed, and the impact on New Orleans' population.
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BBC

Bbc: Rebuilding New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how New Orleans considered how to rebuild the levee system that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Maps of New Orleans and the levee system are available. (January, 2006)
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BBC

Bbc: Police Told to Clear New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
As New Orleans remained underwater, fears of pollution, health hazards, and safety moved Mayor Ray Nagin to order a mandatory evacuation of the city. Photos accompany the September, 2005 article.
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BBC

Bbc: Left Behind in New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Fascinating look at a New Orleans rescue mission by volunteers who are attempting to help those impacted by the flooding of New Orleans brought on by Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: New Orleans Mayor Lays Out Repopulation Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lays out his plan to bring people displaced by Hurricane Katrina back to New Orleans. The governments at all levels also are looking at plans for for future evacuations and recovery. Article is from September,...
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BBC

Bbc: 'Thousands Dead' in New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina, reports of the devastation of New Orleans is explored by BBC News. A video, other report links, and an interactive map of Katrina's path accompany this August, 2005, report.
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BBC

Bbc: Storm Hit New Orleans in Turmoil

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief BBC report illustrating the conditions of New Orleans soon after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. Report is from August, 2005.
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BBC

Bbc: Saving New Orleans' Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News explores the fate of many missing and abandoned animals in New Orleans. Many of those impacted by Hurricane Katrina stayed in the flooded city because they did not want to leave their pets behind. Article is from September, 2005.
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BBC

Bbc: New Orleans' Victims in Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief BBC News report portraying the plight of some of the people stranded in New Orleans and effected by Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.