Throughout the information on the pages about using the Internet there will be links to information in the resource which can be used to teach about weather concepts and hurricanes. The strategies and ideas in the chart below are cumulative and build on one another. A Category 5 Internet - Using Educator is or probably has used all of these ideas and more. As you integrate the Internet into your curriculum you will find different strategies work best for some units or topics. Don't feel that anything found online is superior to what can be found in books or in another form.
All materials have their place.
Students must be taught good information processing skills and to authenticate information found online. This becomes more critical as Internet resources become more widely included and students begin to use search engines to gather their own information. Work with students to view and evaluate Internet sites. Several rubrics for evaluation of sites can be found online or you might create your own. These should be sites that you previewed or that you and students evaluated together.