Hurricanes

Grade 3-5

East Valley School District

Objectives (EALR/GLEs):

Materials

Internet

Handout

Description

Show the slide show about HURRICANES.

If you can’t get the current satellite picture website up above click on:

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/satellite/

Then choose Infrared Color on the left, loop-big on the right, then click on the picture of Florida.

Have students answer these three questions:

1) What is a hurricane?

2) How do you classify a hurricane?

3) How does a hurricane get its name?

Go to this website:

http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm

If students finish early they can…

Explore the website (play the games about hurricanes)

Extension:

This website contains a printable map for kids to draw the travel pattern of the hurricanes around the world currently. Use the website farther below to actually see the travel patterns. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/hurricanes/extreme/track.htm

You can actually watch the path with longitude and latitude lines recorded-the path that hurricane Ivan has and is following. This site also gives the advisory information for that area too. http://hurricane.terrapin.com/ATL-09A/

Other hurricanes around the world occurring now...

http://hurricane.terrapin.com/