Pathfinders
New Zealand Disasters
These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with
your research on
Subject headings, keywords
Abbotsford landslide, Ballantyne's fire, Brunner mine, Cave Creek, Cyclone Bola, Cyclone Giselle
Edgecumbe, Murchison, Napier, Wellington, earthquakes, Influenza epidemic, Mt Erebus plane crash, Mt Tarawera eruption, Tangiwai railway accident, Southland flood, Wahine sinkingDewey Numbers
904 - about 15 books on specific New Zealand events and others on natural disasters.
Reference:
Information file - there is a list of New Zealand disasters on the front which can be looked up by name. Also look in New Zealand Encyclopedias on the Reference shelves.
On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'The following websites have information on disasters:
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Resources/Kids/History/Disasters/index.asp Highly recommended. The Christchurch Library site with good information on many disasters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Disasters_in_New_Zealand
http://www.quintura.com/ Type in "new zealand disasters", then choose which ever you want, by clicking on the disaster. Each time you click on a subject it is added to your list, and the best websites for these topics are listed on the right side of the page.
Darfield High School Library Team