Teaching about Risk and Resilience Activities

These activities have been submitted by faculty from a range of disciplines as part of the 2014 workshop: Teaching about Risk and Resilience. The activities use a wide array of pedagogic approaches to address teaching about risk and resilience.

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Virtual Field Trip (VFT) to the USGS Earthquake Hazard Program - Connection between Plate Boundaries and Threats to Life
Carlos Nunez, Nova

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Special Interest: Google Earth, Field-Based Teaching and Learning, Online Course or Activity, Hazards, Data, models, or simulations:Data, Computer-Based

Usefulness of Google Earth/Wikimapia as risk predictor and damage/ resilience assessment tools
Charlene Sharpe, Rutgers
Google Earth/Wikimapia tools for risk prediction, damage and resilience assessment.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geography, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology
Special Interest: Hazards, Computer-Based, Google Earth

Hurricane Katrina Flooding Activity
Marianne Caldwell, Hillsborough Community College
Students will use links from the NOAA and NASA website to learn about the meteorological characteristics and history of Hurricane Katrina and visualize the effects of the flooding by the hurricane on New Orleans.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geography, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes
Special Interest: Visualization, Computer-Based, Hazards, 2YC:Geo2YC