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Winner
2009
With the current world economic crisis, many have neglected the existence of the global food crisis. Thus, we boldly remove this specious rug, and explore a terror that has beleaguered the human race. With an interactive website, we show you a reality that itches to be uncovered. We will show you hunger. We will show you the Global Food Crisis.
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2008
Our website is designed to inform, educate, and bring awareness among people about what happened during the 1984 gas tragedy in Bhopal and its continuing effects.
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2003
A broad overview of the many types of natural disasters which occur around the world. Includes many links for further reading.
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2001
Inferno is an interactive web site on wildfire. Users can absorb all the content, and interact with their ideas and feedback. Features include content on all subjects related to wildfire, two picture galleries - one that has more than 550 pictures of all wildfire related subjects, and another user submitted picture gallery. There are interviews of local residents, all of whom experienced different aspects of the wildfires of 2000 (the text, audio, and video is included from the interviews). Users of the site can also submit their own stories and articles on wildfires, read the latest fire news, or take part in a discussion on the message board. The iLessons section has features that help teachers integrate the site into their lesson plans, or students easily learn specific wildfire-related subjects. To see the rest of the features, visit the site!
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Winner
1996
The volcanic-like explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Saturday, April 26, 1986, was probably the world's largest nuclear accident. Discover the actions that lead to the disaster, how it could have been prevented, and the lasting effect it has had on the local community and the world. Learn about the devastating impact on the health of those exposed to the radiation, and the bleak future for this nuclear facility.
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2009
We tell about shipwrecks and environment of the Baltic Sea. It is very interesting to know about the old ships lying in the seafloor of the Baltic Sea. There are so many ships and the water here has less salt and has a certain chemical combination that the ships preserve better.
Also the Baltic Sea is the most polluted Sea in the World.
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2008
Statistics, Causes, Prevention, Consequences, Safety Guidelines of Forest Fires
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2007
This site gives an in-depth description of what took place during World War 2. This site describes the Holocaust, the Crusades, and the Genocides.
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2007
You should look at our website because it is good information about shipwrecks and pirates. Also famous battleships at Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor information. Finally we have a great selection of games and treasure. WE HOPE YOU HAVE FUN!
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2006
This internet site is about three major topics involving the sea. It is about whaling and the tools and ships that they used. It is also about sea disasters, such as tsunamis and cyclones. The third topic is about shipwrecks, such as the fascinating story of the passangers of the Titanic.
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2004
It is about disasters that happen all around the world. On this website, you will find these disasters: Titanic, Hindenburg, Shuttle Columbia, and Chernobyl.
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2004
This website is about natural disasters such as volcanoes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, tsunamies, and hurricanes. We have imformation about emergency plans and safety rules before, during and after the hazard.
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2004
This website is all about tornadoes. It includes how to protect yourself when oen of them is near and the devistating damage that these twisters cause.
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2004
This site is about the recent tsunami disaster - the worst tragedy in South East Asia. We will present interesting facts and figures, photos, scientific background of the tsunami on this web site. We also plan to add activities or links to activities like wave model animations.
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2004
A webpage with general information about tsunamis. It has information abut the causes of tsunamis, how people are effected by tsunamis, and how the environment is effected by tsunamis. It also has information on the politics of tsunamis.
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2003
The STS mission began on the morning of January 16th, 2003. On February 1, 2003, as the shuttle was entering earth, Columbia sadly exploded in mid-air. This site is about the mission and the crew that died.
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2003
Our website describes several different types of natural disasters.
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2003
This site includes information about earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis.
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2003
This site is about the 7 natural disasters: hurricanes, floods, tornados, tsunamis, volcanos, landslides, and earthquakes.
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2003
Welcome to the World Wind site. Our site is about volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes. You will learn about the different type and causes of natural disasters plus safety tips.
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2003
this site is a good source for information on the causes and effects of Natural Disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and global warming.
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2003
Our project is an educational, attractive, informative and interactive website on six natural disasters, namely avalanches, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis and volcanoes. Our website includes quizzes, picture galleries, information on the natural disasters and an educational game. We used Flash and FrontPage to create it.
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2003
This site gives information on natural and man made disasters.
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2003
This site gives information on the Titanic, the passengers, the crew and the sinking of the ship.
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2003
We are a team from Armenia and we created a site about earthquakes, including the major earthquake in Armenia. We also include information about other natural disasters like tsunamis and tornadoes.
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2003
Tornado Tuesday is a website about the terrible Tuesday, June 24, 2003, when 67 tornadoes touched down the state of South Dakota. As fifth graders, we wanted to make a website to educate other students. Our state is located on Tornado Alley and every summer tornadoes impact some of our communities.
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2003
"Here, you can find different kinds of volcanoes shown on pictures wit h short description. We show you, for instance, a volcano being in operation, its genesis, the reaso ns and consequences of the eruptions and other interesting incidents connected to it. Natural disast ers have been respected with fear since ancient times. With this website you can participate in thes e wonders, though not
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2002
This site has information on the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Mt. St. Helen's eruption, Hurricane Hugo, and the Hindenburg disasters. We have also included an interactive quiz.
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2002
We have info on the cargo, passengers, sinking, artifacts, preservation, boat & its rediscovery. We have funny info about discovering the boat & stories about a doll & a mule’s skeleton. We made a game and a link to the Steamboat Museum site.
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2002
Our site is about the Titanic. It includes games, facts, and teacher information. Thanks for visiting our site!
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2002
On our website you will find useful and fascinating information about the Steamboat Arabia. We have information about the discovery, excavation, funding, people involved, museum, and the artifacts and how they were preserved.
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2002
Our site looks at the Titanic, the accident and recovery. We have a quiz over the site, and many pictures that show events.
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2001
If you go to our page, you will learn a whole lot about storms and disasters such as tsunamis, lightning, brushfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and much more.
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2001
This website "Feel Its Fury" is about the 6 natural disasters - avalanches, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. It contains mainly contextual knowledge about and also a small section given to quizzes to help the surfer test himself on how much he has learnt through the website. Answers are also provided with explanations so that he/she can understand the mistakes made in the quiz. In the "classroom" pages, where factual information is found, one can find out on the characteristics and formations of each of the natural disaster as well as many other aspects of the particular disasters. Some comparisons are also made at times between two similar natural diasters.
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2001
Visitors to our website will learn about three kinds of natural disasters: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, and Floods. They will lean how to protect themselves and will learn aobut some famous occurrances.
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2001
This amazing website is on natural disasters. We cover hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, droughts, lightning, blizzards, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, avalanches, fires, tsunamis, tidal waves, and cyclones.
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2001
This Survival Site gives statistical information, preparation for an emergency, and what to do when confronted with ten possible disasters. These disasters include: a boating mishap, vehicle breakdown or accident, plane emergency, tornadoes, hurricanes, lost in the woods, fires, earthquakes, floods, and lightning. After reading each section an online quiz will test you to determine if you learned the important facts given in each report. This site also includes questions and activities for two books, Hatchet and The Cay. Both of these books center around a survival theme. Another section has short stories about real people who have been in disasters. You may add to this section with your story. HOPEFULLY ONE OF THESE SURVIVAL STORIES WILL SAVE A LIFE. A section on survival kits shows you what you need to have on hand in case of an emergency. Seven online games give the site a fun way to learn about survival.
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2001
This site has two subject areas: The first is the famous story of the Titanic. The second is that of its connection to our locality - Athlone, Ireland. The Titanic is an important piece of history for many reasons. There are the elements of human tradgedy and the implications the disaster would have for all passenger shipping in the future. But the Titanic was also an important symbol of the industrial revolution. For Ireland the ship evokes many feelings as the majority of those travelling were leaving behind a county where famine was still a recent memory. For all these reasons the Titanic is now a large part of the history syllabus in Irish National schools. This site is a useful study aid for those researching the topic. However it is also a record of those people who history will never individually record.
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2001
The Titanic was the most extravagant vessel of its time. In our website, you will learn the story of this great ocean liner. You will experience the sinking and discovery of this unsinkable ship. See a video on our homepage and test your knowledge on our quiz. Now look into our website and the sinking of the unsinkable: Titanic!
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2000
How will the Earth end? This site provides scientific proof against and/or for theories we randomly choose. While proving/disproving our theories, we introduce the users to different areas of study:Sun,Comets, Earth and Orbital Paths.
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2000
Our website is basically on four main types of disasters: oil spills, nuclear disasters, volcanoes and earthquakes. There is also a page on plate tectonics, which relates to volcanoes and earthquakes. Through our website, users will be able to learn more about these disasters as there is much information.
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2000
If you're looking for a magnificent, interactive web site on the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986, you've found it! This site will teach you all about the physics of how the Chernobyl's RBMK reactors worked and why the disaster occurred. Then take a well designed, interactive quiz, to see what you have learned.
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2000
Our site has information about three sunken ships (the Titanic, the Lusitania, and the Empress of Ireland), ocean sports (surfing, wind surfing, scuba diving, and sailing), ocean weather (hurricanes, waves and climate), and last, but not least, ocean animals (sea turtles, whales and sharks). Also, we have a quiz with 40 questions, an authors' page that tells about all the authors of our site, and a bibliography page with all of the resources we used to research our information.
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2000
Visit our Web site to explore six mysteries of the ages. They include the Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, Oak Island, the Pyramids and the Sphinx, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. After perusing all the information we have gathered, see if your conclusion is the same as ours ... that these mysteries will most likely remain unexplained for ages to come.
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1999
This web site tells about natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes and tsunamis. It also explores some well known industrial disasters. These include Chernobyl,Exxon-Valdez, the Challenger, the Hindenburg, and the Titanic.
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1999
The purpose of the entry is to teach about the history of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The main topics include the Great Flood of 1889, the other two smaller floods, the history of the steel mill, Grandview Cemetery, and the inclined plane.
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1999
Our webpage is a compilation of some of the worst disasters of the last century, in a somewhat way of celebrating the Millennium. We chose the last hundred years instead of the last thousand years, because we thought that would be too broad, and we narrowed it down. We have a total of six different disasters; some were very popular, such as Titanic, and others were less well known, such as the Mount Pelee eruption. Our page includes Hurricane Andrew, one of the worst hurricanes to ever hit America, the Tri-State tornado, that lasted for hours, instead of minutes like a normal tornado, and Titanic, which was sunk by an ice burg on its maiden voyage. There is also the Mt. Pelee volcano eruption, which destroyed the town of St. Pierre without any lava, the Ebola virus outbreaks, and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, one of the largest on the San Andreas Fault. You will see on our page that we went into depth on these disasters, including some quotes of survivors of the catastrophes. We believe that good information is very important, so you don't spend all day searching several websites to find information. We want to expose the public to various disasters, so they can learn more about these dark points in history. However, we learn from these disasters, so we can be prepared the next time one of them occurs. The purpose of learning the past is to learn our mistakes, to protect the future.
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1999
We have included a lot of information about the Bermuda Triangle that you can learn from. We have also included a glossary for information that you may need to know before you access our web site. The timeline has been added to tell when certain ships and planes were lost in the Bermuda Triangle. We tried to include facts that were found not just mysterious information.
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1999
Our Entry provides the user with information about the Titanic. It gives a picture tour to give the user a idea of what it looked like. The "Did You Know" page provides the user with lots of interesting facts. The activities page provides the user a fun way of learning important words, and provides the user with a fun way of learning Morse code. The code that the Titanic used. The educational objective is to provide the user with a fun and interesting way to learn facts and figures about the Titanic. Most classes do not spend much time if any on learning about the Titanic. This site would provide a social studies class a way of learning the information quickly. It would allow the student to get out of the usual routine of the classroom and be able to learn the information by just reading and browsing through our site.
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1999
The Titanic page allows people to learn all about this important event in the history of the world. Objectives: To understand the historical perspective of the Titanic's sinking. To understand how this event effected others during this time and later. To understand the different aspects of the ships sinking and how the ship was built. To understand the ethics involved during the whole event. To look at the event through the eyes of others and think critically. The Titanic page allows people to learn all about this important event in the history of the world.
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1999
Our webpage tells about the Titanic and it's passengers. We tell about what happened the night it sank. We teach about exactly what happened and the different classes of passengers.
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1998
The forces of nature are powerful and affect our lives in ways that we cannot control. This site looks at earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, and more. How is the weather predicted? Do sunspots contribute to global warming? What is a greenhouse effect? Learn how lightning is formed in the atmosphere, it's electrifying!
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1998
Our Great Fires home page was used as a model of technology integration into the curriculum of the 4th grade. Beginning with the theme of the Peshtigo Fire (their study of Wisconsin), our students explored, researched and created an internet site that expanded to the Chicago Fire when they discovered, through research, that both occurred on the same date. Students acknowledged and utilized technology in every aspect of this project. They saw the connectedness between academic study and Internet use.
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1998
The wrecks of the Titanic, the Normandie, the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria, and the Empress of Ireland are explored at this web page. Its authors did a nice job exploring the history and the causes of each maritime disaster. The research, graphics, and additional links are also excellent. Some of the neatest links are found on the pages of the guest book. There are some pictures of excavations from the Lusitania added there.
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1998
How can you protect yourself from the deadly effects of tornadoes? What is a tsunami? Science students can find out these answers plus a lot more information on Natural Disasters. Tornadoes, Volcanoes, Lightning, Tsunami, Earthquakes, Drought, and Hurricanes are all discussed in-depth with glossaries, pictures, and graphs. There are also helpful links for each subject in addition to all the information already provided by this site.
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1998
On the night of March 23, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran into a submerged reef, and spilled eleven million gallons of oil into the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. This and other oil spill disasters are covered at this site, with discussions of the environmental consequences. The types of emissions that cause air pollution are also discussed.
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1998
Four forces of nature are examined: tornadoes, lightning, tsunami, and aurora borealis. All of these natural events are outstanding examples of nature unleashed, from the terror and strength of a tornado or tsunami to the magnificent beauty of the aurora borealis. Find out how each event occurs, the impact it has on our world, and how science studies these phenomena.
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1998
The story of the great passenger ship RMS Titanic, and of its sinking on its maiden voyage in 1912, has captured the popular imagination. The recent movie was wildly popular. Here you can read the story of the ship's creation, the disastrous voyage, and the decades-long search for the sunken vessel.
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1998
We wrote a timeline of what happened to the Titanic. This could help people find education about what happened and how it happened.
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1998
This website is about the Titanic. It has information about the ship, the collision and the sinking of the Titanic.
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1998
Take a brief tour to many areas of the Titanic. Find out all about the ship and its passengers by visiting the Captain's Cabin. The Navigation Room staff will tell you about Titanic's ports of call. The Medical room explains how to combat seasickness. The best part of the site is the boiler room, where the friendly workman teaches you all about coal and how it's formed. There's a long list of web sites, too.
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1998
We chose the Titanic for our topic because of all of the interest about the movie being made. We wanted to use this interest to present some of the real information about the Titanic. Our educational objectives are: - To inform students of the real facts about the Titanic, not just in the movie - To make learning fun for students -To include some of the events that happened before and after the sinking of the Titanic so that students get a feel for the history of the period. - To make the study of history more interesting by including an in-depth study of a real historical happening -To include some science information about icebergs, etc.
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1998
For many years since the sinking of the Titanic people have dreamed of finding its final resting spot on the ocean floor and salvaging its remains. Finally, the dream was realized. Find out more about the effort to "rescue" the Titanic, but first read of its doomed voyage and the tragedy that struck it. There are great details about this ship's maiden journey, including complete passenger and survivors list. It's a must for Titanic enthusiasts.
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1998
Perhaps the most well-known transportation tragedy is the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This entry provides a history of the ship, starting with White Star's dream and ending with the rediscovery and exploration of the wreck. Stories from the survivors are provided to give a first-hand account of the collision.
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1997
Nine different natural disasters are examined here: bush fires, cyclones, drought, earthquakes, famine, floods, tornadoes, tsunami, and volcanoes. Find out what they are, what causes them, where they occur, and read about recent or famous occurrences of each disaster. Then visit the personal account section to read what it's like to live through one of these events, or share your own survival story.
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1997
Oil has had a major effect on Alaska for many years both before and since the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989, when 11 million gallons of it spilled into Prince William Sound. This web site attempts to document the damage caused by the oil. It also provides a history of Alaska, showing how Alaska became prosperous because of oil, and gives an overview explaining what happened during the spill and the cleanup methods used to recover from it.
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1997
For fans of the film "Titanic," this web site provides another viewpoint and lots of interesting detail. The story of the shipyard where the boat was built and the personalities behind the ship's birth are nicely delineated from a local viewpoint. Using a chapter-type approach, the web site illuminates hidden facets of the history behind this great disaster. Photos from the era and modern-day shots of important locales add interest.
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