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Take Your Students By Storm!
Take your students by storm by using the SEACOOS virtual hurricane classroom – featuring an “eye”-catching poster, hurricane information and activity websites, a hurricane glossary, and classroom activities.
COSEE SouthEast,
COSEE Florida,
COSEE Gulf of Mexico,
North Carolina SeaGrant,
South Carolina SeaGrant, and
UGA's Marine Extension Service
are SEACOOS education partners in developing these materials.
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Bring gusts of excitement to the classroom.
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This 36 by 32 inch poster, Forming Hurricanes, brings gusts of excitement to the classroom. Learn about concepts such as causes of hurricanes, hazards associated with hurricanes, and hurricane facts for the southeast Atlantic United States.
To get a full sized printed poster, contact your Sea Grant office:
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North Carolina Sea Grant:
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University of Georgia Marine Extension Service (UGA MAREX):
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South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium:
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Florida Sea Grant:
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COSEE Florida:
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For educators outside of FL, SC, GA and NC, contact the NOAA Outreach Unit:
NOAA Outreach Distribution Unit
1305 East-West Hwy. Room 1W524
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Track the path of hurricanes.
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A chart to track hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
Print out the chart. Monitor the National Hurricane Center for new Atlantic storm advisories. Read the latitude and longitude of the storms from the advisories. Mark the coordinates on the chart. Keep checking the advisories to see how the positions of the storms change with time. Perfect for following up the "Exploring Latitude and Longitude" classroom activity.
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Learn the language of hurricanes.
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This handy online glossary helps students learn the most common scientific words heard in reference to hurricanes. Includes links to deeper explanations, tables explaining details about hurricane categories, and lists of example hurricanes.
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Based on National Science Education Standards
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Hurricane Bingo is a great game for grades 6 and up. Students will learn hurricane terms in a fun, fast
atmosphere. The game can be played independently or in groups.
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The Surge of the Storm
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The Surge of the Storm is a Grades 5-12 classroom activity which poses the question, "How does the storm surge of a hurricane affect the low-lying areas along the coast?" Includes web references and related material.
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Watch the wind blow by!
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Make Your Own Anemometer is a classroom activity in which students construct and use a simple anemometer (an instrument that meteorologists use to measure wind
speed) to investigate wind speed.
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You can take the pressure!
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Making, Using, and Understanding a Barometer is a Grades 6-8 classroom activity which poses the question, "How do scientists use pressure changes to predict the arrival or
strengthening of a storm?" Includes web references and related material.
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North, South, East, and West
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Exploring Latitude and Longitude is a Grades 6-8 classroom activity which teaches how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective. Includes web references and related material. This is great classroom preparation for using the Atlantic Hurricane Tracking Chart.
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What do you think?
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What did you think of the Forming Hurricanes poster and the supporting web resources? Your answers to a simple survey will help evaluate the educational effectiveness of the poster and web site as similar products are developed.
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Please direct your comments on this virtual Hurricane Classroom to
greganti@uga.edu
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