They can learn how hurricanes are formed, how they move, and how they are categorized. There are opportunities to learn how to read charts, create hurricane tracking maps, how scientists predict hurricanes, assign names to them and finally, navigate through the eye of a hurricane. The possibilities in this are really endless. The Art teacher can help students make graphic images or maps. Math teachers can have children keep track of sea levels, ocean temperatures, chart hurricanes, and use linear measures to determine distances on a map while they create a fictional hurrican travel paths.
Science teachers can focus upon careers in oceanography, as well as meterology.
At the completion of this activity, all students will be able to create at least one type of project, multimedia, written, or digital that answers each of the questions above. On-line computer, printer 2. Presentation system, digital camera, multimedia software or Slide show software 3. Art Materials for drawing, creating multimedia art 4. Disks to save material retrieved on line.