Week Thirteen: Hurricane
Tropical Twisters
Weeks 13, 14, and 15 make up a three-week cycle about a hurricane. Currently, you are in the Sphere Study week of the cycle.

This week you will become “experts” in the relationship of individual spheres to a hurricane. You will need to study the resources listed under Readings & Web Sites, discuss your key ideas in the Classroom Sphere Study Space, then submit your team’s work for a grade.

Go to Group and Team Formation to find out which sphere you are studying during this module.

Assignments:

First, submit your individual questions, theories, and prior knowledge about this event and Earth Systems Science to your Portfolio in the Classroom.

Submit to the Portfolio in the Classroom your team's most accurate analysis of the Sphere - Event interactions with reasoning and support.

Suggested Activities for Your Students

Use Weather in Our Lives to help students design a weather based newspaper or to link to the Earth Systems Education program centered at Ohio State University.

You will want to locate other resources locally and on the Internet to supplement these. Post the resources you find in Resource Space in the Classroom.

Readings

Go to NASA's "For Kids Only" See Natural Hazards.

Web Sites

About Hurricane Dennis

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Click on Natural Hazards, then Tropical Twister

NOAA's home page for hurricanes: Start with Hurricane Basics for general information about hurricane structure, origin and more.

University of Illinois: Online Meteorology Guide allows you to fly through a 3-D hurricane.

OSU Atmospheric Science Program Provides graphic and text weather data to meteorologists and the general public.

UNISYS Weather Home Page Realtime and archived data and images of hurricanes and other types of severe weather.

USA Today's weather pages A comprehensive source for all types of weather data

If your state has a major university with an atmospheric sciences department, it is likely to have an accessible and useful weather Web site.

Additional readings from NASA's EOS Observatory web site:
Hurricane Floyd's Lasting Legacy
Hurricane Floyd: Fearing The Worst
Sedimental Reasons

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