You might want to explain that tropical storm names are assigned by the World Meteorological Organization . Encourage younger students to visit Making a Weather Station and help them follow the directions to create a classroom weather station. Provide students with a Tracking Map and invite them to track the path of a current storm or a storm from a previous year. Encourage students to visit Disaster Math and solve the problems. For very young students, use these word problems as a guide to creating your own.
Lightning is caused by static electricity stored in rain clouds.
Students can demo how lightning is formed by tearing a small square of paper into tiny, confetti-like pieces. Mext, take a comb and hold it near the confetti. Then they can briskly run the comb through their hair. You can't see the static electricity you've created but you can see its results. Hurricanes cause millions of dollars in damages each year.