Online Tutorial

Nicole Spruill’s Wacky World of Weather

  1. Go to the website entitle Your Planet Earth.
  2. Below, I have posted what information the page will display, minus the Tsunami sign due to space constraints.) Under the Resources heading, double click on the Natural Hazards Powerpoint. Give the document a minute to download, for it full of information and graphics. Then, open the presentation in Powerpoint.

Your Planet Earth

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Natural Hazards(for 14–15 year-olds)

Resources

  • Natural Hazards Powerpoint(22.4 MB)
  • Natural Hazards lecture notes: asWordorpdf
  • Exercises
  • Impact of environmental disasters
    (as aWordorpdffile)
  • Locating earthquake epicentres
    (as aWordorpdffile)
  1. Once the presentation (named hazards, first slide of presentation shown below) has been opened in Powerpoint, stay on the Home tab (the 2nd tab to the left, next to the File tab). All the slides are shown and listed vertically on the left side of the page. Review this presentation in its entirety by clicking each slide, 1 through 40. Use scroll bar to select each slide and view its contents in the window to the left of the list/display of slides.

*Be careful to NOT hit the DELETE button AT ANY TIME. If you do so, you will delete information that the presentation is meant to inform you of.

  1. Read ALL SLIDE INFORMATION.
  1. As you click on the 2nd slide (and throughout the rest of the slides), a text box will appear BELOW the enlarged slide. This box contains supplemental information that will expand on the information you read in the slides above. Once again, use the scroll bar located on the left of the box to show and read all of the information located in the box. If any questions are asked, think to yourself what you would respond to the question.

*REPEAT* Be careful to NOT hit the DELETE button AT ANY TIME. If you do so, you will delete information that the presentation is meant to inform you of.

  1. Once finished reviewing the hazards Powerpoint presentation, close the document. Then go to the Wild Weather Adventure! website to play the Wild Weather Adventure! game to test your knowledge.
  1. HAVE FUN!!!

Wild Weather Adventure

All sites were located through links provided from and/or through the website. I have only simplified the navigation to the information and game above by directing students to the exact sites that I was navigated to through