I m sure your students will enjoy joining the Hurricane Hunters as they fly into the Eye of Hurricane Opal. As an added reward, after the plane is back on solid ground your student Hurricane Hunters can receive a cyber-patch as a memento of their flight. This site would be an excellent resource for independent study projects. By using the technology available to us in the classroom the students can be active in their learning while investigating this site. Additionally, students can extend their research by clicking on links to related sites.
Gifted students can utilize the information available as part of a multi-media presentation.
This site offers students excellent background information on hurricanes, including a time-line, which traces hurricanes back to Christopher Columbus day. There are many opportunities to link classroom science to real life applications. I especially like the Hurricane Hunter s link which offers a birds-eye view into the eye of Hurricane Opal. If all this is not enough, this site also provides an official advisory with tropical outlooks, interactive tracking and satellites and radar, CBS4 Real-time Radar and live towercam shots of South Florida.