Hurricane Katrina

What happened next?

Your task this lesson is to produce a powerpoint presentation that investigates what happened after hurricane Katrina. You should include:

• summary of the main impacts
• what happened during and immediately after the event (short term responses)
• what happened over the weeks and months after the event (long term responses)
• criticisms of the responses
• your opinion about how successful responses to Katrina have been

Use these following links to help:

BBC In-depth report

Wikipedia Katrina page

CNN Katrina report

Guardian Katrina report

Wycombe High school Katrina page

The BBC has a very good interactive map about the effects of climate change on the planet. It gives you case studies of places and other factors including coasts, industry, food, health and water. It would make an excellent revision aid for GCSE.

Click on the image to go to the BBC page.

The death toll has now moved into the 1000's in the aftermath of Cyclone Sidr. The category 4 storm devastated the extremely low lying southern coast of Bangladesh - home to over 5 million people - on the night of 15th November. The news report below outlines the main impacts of this storm on the people of Bangladesh. More detail can be found on the BBC news web pages.