If you or your school subscribe to Discovery’s UnitedStreaming.com, check out the following great video resources relating to “Offshore Geohazards” for your classroom!
- Continents Adrift: An Introduction to Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics – A comprehensive 26 minute video explaining the basics of geomorphology. Subjects touched on include seafloor spreading, subduction zones, formation of mountains and earthquakes. **Appropriate for intermediate to upper grade levels.
- Raging Planet: Tsunami (56:00) – Video containing 11 segments on different aspects of Tsunamis, causes, implications, warnings, history, and magnitude. **Most comprehensive video on Tsunamis provided by UnitedStreaming.com, appropriate for intermediate and upper grade levels.
- Our Changing Earth (54:00) – History of Earth’s variety of terrains with a 6 minute 50 second section on how Tsunamis form and what humans can do to protect themselves. **Excellent, short but comprehensive segment, appropriate for all intermediate to high school aged students.
- World’s Best: Series: Nature’s Fury – Contains a 4 minute17 second video on the phenomenon, cause and magnitude of destructive tsunamis. **Geared toward older grades. .
- Enviro-Tacklebox:Module 4: Forces in the Environment: The Earth: Work in Progress – This Video contains a brief 18 second animated clip of what causes tsunamis. **Great for younger grades.
