Teaching Hurricane Sandy: Ideas and Resources

As New York City and the East Coast begin to recover from Hurricane Sandy, we offer some ideas for responding to the storm and its aftermath with students. We will continue to update this post.
For live updates, check here. For a quick overview, consult the Times interactive “Assessing the Damage From Hurricane Sandy” which reported on Oct. 30:

More than six million customers lost power Monday as Hurricane Sandy felled trees, downed power lines and flooded substations. The storm led to power failures in at least 17 states, including more than a million customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and about 660,000 in New York City. Roughly a quarter million customers lost power in Manhattan alone after a fiery explosion at a substation on East 14th Street, leaving nearly the entire island eerily dark south of 34th Street. Con Edison officials called the power failures “the largest storm related outage in our history.”

Below, some ways to bring Hurricane Sandy into the classroom. Please tell us how you’ll be addressing it. We want to collect ideas from classrooms around the region.

Strength and weaknesses

My Streangth is My Family and God.
My Weaknesses is I don't know how to speak Ilocano.

MyAutobiography

I was born on a warm, sunny day in April in Tagum Doctors Hospital. I still live in Kapalong Davao del Norte and I go to school at Kapalong National High School. I live with my mom, Eunice; my sister, Anne. When I was born, my sister was 3 years old. Anne is a sweet kid and he would do anything for me, but like all brothers and sisters we fight like cats and dogs. Sometimes when no one was around, Anne would come up to me and bite my toes for no reason. I still love her because she is my sister.