• Dynamic Earth - http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/dynamicearth/ - This K-5 lesson plan from Discovery.Com uses a hands-on demonstration and student illustrations to teach how tsunamis form. (This lesson plan supplements the Discovery video of the same title, which is for sale, but the plan can be used by itself.)
• Help is on the Way - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20041229wednesday.html - This grade 6-12 exploration of the relief efforts comes from New York Times Daily Teacher Connection (see our January 10, 2003 edition for a general review of Teacher Connection). There's also a plan on the event itself.
• Tsunami Research Program - http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/ - Although mostly technical, we include this site from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory because it shows Dec. 26 water levels during the tsunami, as well as real-time levels from instruments off the western coast of America.
• Surviving a Tsunami - http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/ - This 1999 publication of the U.S. Geological Survey is an excellent tsunami resource, with lots of information and pictures.
• Pictures - We include a couple of excellent before-and-after image sources showing the devastation of the tsunami:
  • Earth Observatory (NASA): http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=12643'
  • Digital Globe: http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

The contributors to Wikipedia (see The E-Line review in our May 28, 2004 edition) have provided this large and growing page of specific relief organizations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donations_for_victims_of_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake. As the disclaimer at the top indicates, an openly editable list like this may contain bogus and dishonest contact sites. Determining which are most likely legitimate would make an excellent Web lesson!

• American Red Cross- http://www.redcross.org/ - This longstanding relief organization has local chapters who will happily help coordinate fund-raising efforts, and international channels for funneling relief where it is needed. See their Youth Services page for some helps.
• CARE - http://www.careusa.org/ - CARE is another international relief organization. Take a look at Care Corps Teens (http://www.careusa.org/getinvolved/youth/), a part of CARE's "Get Involved" program, for an initiative targeting young people.
• UNICEF - http://www.unicef.org/ - The United Nations Children's Fund targets the international needs of children. The international site above is covered with streaming video and audio appeals from a broad range of celebrities and pubic figures. The U.S. site (http://www.unicefusa.org) has specific helps in implementing a fundraising activity (look in "Youth Action").