Hurricanes



Essential Questions: How do hurricanes form? How do hurricanes impact our lives in Kansas? How can responding to natural disasters unite a community? How can responding to natural disasters unite people from different countries in a common bond of humanity?

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Weather Wiz Kids: What is a hurricane? Web Weather for Kids: Hurricanes

 Hurricane Tracker : This is an interactive map showing the latest tropical storms. Explore this map. Zoom in, type in an address, change the map style. After you change some of the settings you might wish your map was back the way it was when you first started. Just refresh the page. Do you think this map would be helpful to anyone living along the southern or eastern coasts of the United States? How might you use the hurricane tracker?

Interactives: Create-a-Cane!  What surprised you most?

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Anatomy of a Hurricane <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If the graphic appears too small, hold down the command key and tap the + key until it is large enough to read. Tapping the - key will reduce the size.

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Study the dictionary entry on Tropical Cyclones. Are these the same as hurricanes or are they different? Compare the diagram with the diagram on the infographic, Anatomy of a Hurricane. What is the same? What is different?

===<span style="color: #0079ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">WolframAlpha: === <span style="color: #0079ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">In the search field, type in Hurricane Irene, Hurricane Rita. Study the comparison chart of the two hurricanes. What information do you find interesting? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

===<span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Google Earth Layer: Hurricane Irene Historical Path === <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Open this layer in Google Earth then answer the questions. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At what point did this storm move from a tropical depression to a tropical storm? What were the wind speeds of the tropical storm? Which states were affected most severely by this hurricane? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">