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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Hurricane Tracking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners track and plot hurricanes paths for study.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hurricane! Saving Lives With Reasoning & Computer Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop and apply the distance formula and an x-y coordinate plane on a hurricane tracking map, and then use a map scale to determine distance in miles. Then, using MATLAB computer science programming language, students help...
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Tramline

Hurricane Virtual Field Trip

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What conditions are necessary to create a hurricane? Where do hurricanes occur? When is hurricane season? What is the difference between a tropical cyclone and a hurricane? How is the strength of a hurricane measured? Where do hurricanes...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Tracking Hurricane News

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read news articles about Hurricane Irene, present information with classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane's story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, how people were affected,...
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Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Weather Page: Hurricanes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out about hurricanes and how to track them.
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Center for Educational Technologies

Exploring the Environment : Severe Weather:hurricanes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about hurricanes by analyzing data and predicting possible new hurricanes. Lots of good background and some extension activities.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Hurricane Hunters: Tracking Katrina and Rita

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students can use data collected on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to study functions, predictions, and probability models. Students will track the two hurricanes to see how the paths of the hurricanes affected the Gulf...