Week 14: Hurricane

Week Fourteen: Hurricane
The Weather Viewed from Space
Weeks 13, 14, and 15 make up a three-week cycle about a hurricane. Currently, you are in the Event Study week of the cycle.

This week you and your Event Team will build on the sphere to sphere interactions you identified last week to synthesize them into causal chains or causal matrices. You will use the resources listed under Readings and Web Site, discuss your ideas in the Classroom Event Study Space, then submit your team’s work to the portfolio for a grade.

Assignments:

Team: (by midnight Sunday)

Read about hurricanes.
Review the Event Study Goal and Rubric.
Serve as a "Sphere Expert" to your Event Team.
Read your teammates' summaries about the other individual sphere effects.
Identify intersecting and overlapping effects in your discussion in Event Space in the Classroom. Refer to the Week 3: An Example of an ESS Analysis reading if you would like to review causal relationships.

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

Suggested Activities for Your Students
In "Looking at Earth from Space," start at p. 147. Either select or modify two activities that would be appropriate for the grade level you teach.

Science Is a Study of Earth, pp. 76-79. After you have done the Suggested Activities for Your Students, consider evaluating them using the scheme in Science Is a Study of Earth on p. 71. As an alternative, you might modify this activity evaluation to a more appropriate plan for your future use.

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

Welcome to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise: Educational CD-ROM. Under the Air section, click on “Atmospheric Phenomena” pp. 1-8

Satellites can not "hover" above Earth in low earth orbit. Geostationary satellites high above the earth can orbit once a day, thus appearing to hover. Many remote sensing satellites are in polar orbits and cross a given spot on the earth only infrequently (e.g., every 17 days). The close-up views given by these satellites may not be as timely as desired.

Web Site

Space Science and Engineering Center (Data and Imagery) Click Hurricane Imagery to access real time hurricane data.