Activities and Lesson Plan Sites for Hurricanes

Severe Weather Actitivities and Modules leads your students as a team to review Hurricane Andrew (1992) so they can prepare for tracking and looking at another hurricane during the current hurricane season. Many of the pages provided in the background section are suitable for printing out as reference materials for students or including in a list of links you provide for them to use for on-line research. An extensive glossary of weather related terms is also provided which can be used for vocabulary activities. A link is provided for downloading software (Macintosh version is McHurricane and Tracking The Eye is the Windows version.) which can help track hurricanes.The Storms folder for the McHurricane version contains Gilbert88, Hugo89 and Andrew92 storm files.

Table of Contents for Lessons on Hurricanes from the Miami Museum of Science http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/toc.html

Center for Anaylysis and Prediction of Storms offers complete lessons with activities on general weather information- including worksheets. Includes a module on Wild Weather which directs you to build a model tornado using plastic bottles. Also talks about tornando safety and flash flooding.

Lessons which focus on Hurricane Andrew but include good information and activities for those teaching about hurricanes. A Quick Quiz - Assessment Page is included offering 4 ability levels with answer keys and activities to assess knowledge on Weather /Atmospheric topics.

Hurricane Basics - Online Meteorology Guide. Use the U. of Illinois Virtual reality - 3-D model to fly through a hurricane (need CosmoPlayer plugin and Shockwave, RealPlayer G2 for some of the multimedia pieces). Many sections of information. Try visiting and download plugins before using with students.

Lesson plans from FEMA and resources for teachers. Resources which show how schools can become more disaster resistant. Includes disaster resources, curriculum and activities, after the disaster guide, plan for a disaster simulation for a community which allows students to take roles as they plan and problem solve for the scenerio. (http://www.fema.gov/kids/teacher.htm)

Athena Curriculum - Weather has links to lessons on hurricanes as well as to lessons on other weather topics. (http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/index.html)