Educational Material and Games

Educational Material and Games

Below is a list of resources to help you learn more about emergency preparedness and get started in developing a kit:

Disaster Master Game
Multi-level game where you work through 8 levels answering questions about what the comic book characters and the disaster they are facing. Different disaster every level. At the end of each level you can print chapters of your graphic novel and move on to the next level.

Build a Kit Game
Multi-level game where you pick items from the room that belong in an emergency kit. It will tell you if you’ve pick something incorrectly and make you go back and change your choices.

Play and Learn to Stop Disasters
This game is very intensive. There are 5 different types of disasters to choose from. Once you choose the disaster you want to play, you have to build a resilient community by building shelters, disaster resilient housing, defensible space, etc.

Challenge: Extreme Weather Game 
This game has 4 sections. First section you learn about weather and thunderstorms and get to build a weather balloon. Second, you learn about winter storms and build a winter rescue vehicle. Third is hurricanes and build a strong structure to survive a hurricane. Last is Forest Fires and you design an aircraft. After building each thing you use it to complete a task. If you do not build it correctly you fail the level and get to try again. I had a lot of fun with this game. Specially the aircraft one at the end cause you get to fly it around and try to put out forest fires.

Make a Plan Website
This is the Ready.gov site to learn how to make a plan.

Build a Kit Website
This is the Ready.gov site to learn how to build a kit.

Kids Activities Book
A Disney Preparedness Activity Book for kids.

Booklist for emotionally building resilience in kids
A list of books to help kids emotionally prepare for disasters.

Disaster Flashcards
A fun activity for parents to engage with their kids around emergency preparedness.

Tornado Simulator
Can change the pressure and rotation speed along with diameter of the tornado and run the simulator to see the damage caused.

NOAA: Zap Game
An educational game helps you learn more about lighting.

Tornado coloring book for kids

Weather Safety for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Smithsonian Weather Lab 
Player can predict spring weather by choosing ocean currents and air masses.

Emergency Financial First Aid Kit
Teaches people how to financially prepare for a disaster and has forms they can use to organize their financial information.