Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Researching Hurricanes With Technology
This lesson will help learners to understand the formation, power, and history of hurricanes. Students will do this using a combination of technological skills. Examples of technology used include: PowerPoint, Word, Netscape Composer,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Are You Prepared?
Natural disasters come in many different forms. In order to be better prepared, students have to know the different types of disasters. In this lesson students will research natural disasters in order to create a brochure highlighting an...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What Causes Storm Surge?
Learn about the many factors that impact how much storm surge floods a coast as a hurricane or tropical storm comes ashore.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Make a Hurricane
The temperature of the sea, moisture in the air, and high winds all play a role in making a hurricane stronger or weaker. Drag the hurricane over the ocean to see what happens.
South Carolina Educational Television
South Caroline Etv Commission: Hurricane Basics | Nasa Online
Simulation provides details of hurricane parts, hurricane formation, and hurricane movement.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Tornado: Q & A
This is a question an answer concerning tornadoes including how they are formed, what the funnel looks like, how tornadoes end, which are more dangerous: tornado or hurricane, inside the "eye" of a hurricane or tornado, and more.
Concord Consortium
What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?
How does energy charge when evaporation is reversed? and What powers a hurricane? are explored in this module.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?
In Activity 1 investigates How are water and other liquids similar and different? The student will see if ideas involving energy, electrostatic interactions, and atomic structure, can be used to explain why a hurricane is so powerful.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?
In this investigation students will add energy to the model of how molecules interact by completing the following activities. Activity 1 What does boiling do to water molecules? Activity 2 How hot can water go? Activity 3 How does energy...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 4: Hurricanes
Fourth graders learn about hurricanes and their impact on Louisiana as well as how historical accounts reflect the culture of Louisiana and give insight into historical events. This set builds on storytelling as a way to transmit...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
Google
Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 4: Surviving Hurricanes: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text, Surviving Hurricanes.
Ready
Ready: Kids: Hurricanes
This resource explains hurricanes, are you at risk, as well as what you should do to protect yourself before, during, and after a hurricane.
Other
Kean: Weather Systems [Pdf]
No scientific phenomena concern us as much as the daily evolution of weather systems. We live in a culture where weather, the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place,helps us define regional cultural variations. States such as...
Other
Planet Ark: World Environmental News
Welcome to Planet Ark's daily Reuters World Environment News - the most comprehensive source of environmental news on the Net. To read previous news stories, please use the search engine below to find stories relating to any...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Hurricanes Hit Harder, More Often, but Why?
From ABC News in Science, Guy Clavel's article deals with research by French scientists which suggests that hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to intensify in severity.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Preparing for a Hurricane
Find out what you should do to prepare for a hurricane. Take a quiz to find out if you are ready to meet the challenge.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Hurricanes
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
Other
Lehigh University: Weather Factoids
How many times does lightning strike the Empire State Building? What state is know as the lightning capital of the U.S.? What time of day do tornadoes usually occur? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this enlightening...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Storm Surge
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how storm surge can occur during a hurricane.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Hurricanes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives an overview of hurricanes and explores the anatomy of a hurricane. It includes video of the vulnerability of New Orleans before hurricane Katrina.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather Hurricanes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes hurricanes and the processes that come together to create hurricanes. It tells us the right precautions to take if a hurricane is coming our way!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to go along with Harcourt 2nd grade science textbook. It discusses the weather, the water cycle, seasons, and different types of storms and what to do based on the type. It...
Center for Educational Technologies
Severe Weather: Hurricane Watch
Hurricanes are the most powerful of storms. Using satellite images, this site allows you to plot the path of a hurricane and predict when it will strike land.