These kid-friendly sites can provide stimulating and topical hands-on web exploration opportunities for students.

(Note: Many of the sites included in Background Information and the other sections may offer information at an appropriate level for older students to explore, as well as those listed in this section.)

FEMA for Kids
        This site from the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps to educate kids about natural disasters, explaining about the different kinds and what types of disasters can occur in the different regions of the country. It seeks to make frightening situations less so, by empowers kids with knowledge about important things to remember in an emergency, including sections like "What You Might Feel in a Disaster."

Volcano World's Kid's Door
        The Kid's Door section of Volcano World offers stories and legends, a kid's art gallery, class project ideas, games, quizzes, and virtual field trips. If your school creates a volcano website, they'll add it to their page.

What's Shakin'?
        Walks visitors through an in-depth introduction to earthquakes, divided into sections on what they are and why they occur, history of seismographs, plate tectonics, faults, seismic waves, and much more. Click on "next" at the top of the page to move through the pages.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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