This module provides an overview of disaster epidemiology including the potential public health impacts of disasters, difference between direct and indirect effects of a disaster, and the role of a disaster epidemiologist

In this activity students will learn about various natural disasters. Students will begin by watching a few news videos about natural disasters in Taiwan, then go through scenario cards discussing how they would handle certain disaster situations.

This activity uses a physical model to facilitate students' understanding of elastic deformation of rocks and the episodic nature of motion on a fault, which leads to earthquakes and aftershocks.

Students work in small groups to analyze and interpret Global Positioning System (GPS) and seismic data related to "mysterious ground motions" first along the northern California coastline, and then in British Columbia. This activity emphasizes the analysis and synthesis of multiple types of data and introduces a mode of fault behavior known as Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) that was discovered less than 20 years ago and has significant implications for understanding megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones.

Join oceanographer Kevin Brown as he describes the phenomena that we experience as "earthquakes" and relates what scientists understand about the physics of these sudden and at times catastrophic movements in the earthŐs crust. Learn how Brown and other Scripps scientists are using a variety of techniques to better understand when, where, and how earthquakes occur. (50 minutes)

Students will learn how the U.S. Census Bureau helps emergency responders provide support during natural disasters. Then, the teacher will set up various stations around the room to encourage peer-to-peer learning in small groups. Students will rotate from station to station, completing tasks such as creating an emergency preparedness kit, determining the states with the highest risk for hurricanes, and reviewing a series of photos of houses to determine which are most likely to survive a natural disaster.

In this project, you will explore a real-world problem, and then work through a series of steps to analyze that problem, research ways the problem could be solved, then propose a possible solution to that problem. Often, there are no specific right or wrong solutions, but sometimes one particular solution may be better than others. The key is making sure you fully understand the problem, have researched some possible solutions, and have proposed the solution that you can support with information / evidence.Begin by reading the problem statement in Step 1. Take the time to review all the information provided in the statement, including exploring the websites, videos and / or articles that are linked. Then work on steps 2 through 8 to complete this problem-based learning experience.

Pumps are used to get drinking water to our houses every day! And in disaster situations, pumps are essential to keep flood water out. In this hands-on activity, student groups design, build, test and improve devices to pump water as if they were engineers helping a rural village meet their drinking water supply. Students keep track of their materials costs, and calculate power and cost efficiencies of the prototype pumps. They also learn about different types of pumps, how they work and useful applications.

Younger school age period ( 7-11 years ) has a significant impact on human life as it both leaves permanent marks and shapes the future life of an individual. Children have a strong desire and motivation to explore the world they live in. The feeling of wonder constitutes the source of their learning motivations. It is thought that this project will comprise a basis and give different ideas for the development of child-centered disaster management plans which includes what to do before, during and after disasters. By the project, in which field screening method was used, younger school age children’s levels of the knowledge and awareness about natural disasters were studied and analyzed. This project was carried out for children to learn about natural disasters, to overcome the fear of natural disasters, and to realize that precautions will save their life and they are not likely to get harm if the necessary precautions are taken. It was carried out with 41 partner schools from 4 countries. 750 students participated in the project. First of all, a pre-questionnaire was applied to the students, and their level of knowledge about natural disasters was measured. Together with the partner school teachers, the deficiencies were determined by a questionnaire applied to the schools and a common plan was prepared as it was aimed to reach all the students. Technological and traditional methods have been blended to create permanent learning for the students and their surrondings to learn the emergency numbers. Different activities have been designed that will attract students attention about the common worlwide disasters, and necessary environments for learning by practising&experience have been created. The results of teacher, parent and student questionnaires carried out after field excursion&observation activities were compared with the pre-questionnaire results.Having analysed the questionnaires in which the Likert scale was used, it was seen that the goals were reached.

This project is a modified version of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Student Leadership Council's Seismic Design Competition. This project has teams of students work to research, plan, build and analyze a cost-effective model building that is designed for seismic loading and has architectural aesthetic appeal. The models are subjected to multiple ground motions, which represent different return period earthquakes. Video of the project can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkruBhAyC5s

The Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover time-series is live on ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World! This map provides an annual assessment of yearly global land cover from 2017–2021, in 9 different land cover classes, at 10-meter resolution. The new time-series animates the natural and anthropogenic processes that continue to transform our planet's landscapes and resources, giving researchers, planners, and the GIS community the information they need to make critical future decisions.

To experience the three types of material stress related to rocks — tensional, compressional and shear — students break bars of soap using only their hands. They apply force created by the muscles in their own hands to put pressure on the soap, a model for the larger scale, real-world phenomena that forms, shapes and moves the rocks of our planet. They also learn the real-life implications of understanding stress in rocks, both for predicting natural hazards and building safe structures.

Students will analyze demographic data, and watch footage from CNN's Soundtrakcs series and a congressional hearing after the disaster to better understand the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina, and the way the federal government's response brought to light issues of racial neglect. Students will also invesitgate how Kanye West's comments during a national fundraiser articulated the disappointment and anger many black American's felt following Hurricane Katrina.

This study was conducted in order to create awareness and knowledge about disasters that children may encounter at every stage of life.

In small groups, students "invent" a way to figure out the location of a house, based on the walking times of two housemates to various locations near their house. This cover story is an analogy for using the arrival time differences between P and S waves to locate an earthquake epicenter. Students then create and compare graphs analogous to a Jeffreys-Bullen diagram and come up with a generalized way to use this type of graph to find distances. The activity prepares students for learning how to locate an epicenter and makes the relationship between distance and arrival times meaningful, since they have to figure out how to use arrival time differences to estimate distance.

Introduction to the different types of slip behaviors that can occur on subduction thrust, and comparative analysis of data sets derived from earthquakes and slow slip events to learn to discriminate among events.