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Subtopic: Weather Hazards

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Avalanche Town The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Chasing Tornadoes In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists are on the hunt for tornadoes. Using Doppler radar, they gather data in the hopes of solving the mystery of how tornadoes form.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Earth System: El Niño's Influence on Hurricane Formation This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains how hurricanes develop and why there are fewer hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean in strong El Niño years.	6-12	QuickTime Video
The Great Flood of 1993 In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a meteorologist explains how an unusual weather pattern led to one of the most devastating floods of this century.	6-12	QuickTime Video
How Do Tornadoes Form? In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists use computer simulations to explore the question of how supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes.	6-12	QuickTime Video
How Hurricanes Form This animation from NASA illustrates the phases in the formation of a hurricane.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Hurricane Students are asked why viewing weather phenomenon through space cameras is important.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hurricane Katrina: A Scientist's Response In this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW, local officials, including scientist Ivor Van Heerden, share their responses to Hurricane Katrina.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hurricane Katrina: Possible Causes This media-rich essay from NOVA scienceNow explores new research into hurricanes that may help explain Katrina's devastating impact and discusses the possibility that global warming played a role.	6-12	HTML Document
Hurricane Katrina: Wetland Destruction Tour the wetlands south of New Orleans that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina in this video segment from NOVA scienceNOW.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hurricanes: New Orleans Under Threat This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW exposes how decades of development and geography combined to make the potential damage from a hurricane uniquely devastating in New Orleans, Louisiana.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hurricanes: New Tools for Predicting This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW features new advances in predicting the intensity of hurricanes.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Samoa Under Threat In this video segment adapted from Bullfrog Films, a local climatologist talks about the Pacific island of Samoa, which is under threat from an increasing number of intense storms possibly related to global warming.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Tornado Students are asked to explain how a tornado is formed and what a tornado does.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Weather is Frightful Students are asked to explain how climate and extreme weather events affect people's lives.	6-12	QuickTime Video