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Middle School Science

Hurricane Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this comprehensive site you will find links to the following topics: parts of the hurricane, naming hurricanes, stages of development, rating hurricanes, online tracking of hurricanes, printable tracking maps, hurricane safety,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hurricane! Saving Lives With Reasoning & Computer Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop and apply the distance formula and an x-y coordinate plane on a hurricane tracking map, and then use a map scale to determine distance in miles. Then, using MATLAB computer science programming language, students help...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Lab 4: Putting Hurricanes on the Map

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores hurricanes. In this particular lab, students choose a storm through HURDAT data base. After choosing the storm, students use Google Maps, NHC Summary Report and NOAA's online...
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Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Weather Page: Hurricanes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out about hurricanes and how to track them.
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NASA

Nasa: Hurricanes

For Students 3rd - 6th
Learn about hurricanes and how they are created. Features include video animation, the histories of the most devastating hurricanes and topics such as hurricane naming and hurricane study.