Lesson plan
Storm Trackers: Tropical Storms Around the World
GeoSTEM
Description
In this lesson, students will identify the regions where tropical storms occur and the conditions that can result in a tropical storm. Students will also practice using the cross-product method to solve proportions of speed of tropical storms to estimate the time it will hit a specified location, the distance it will travel, or its rate of travel.Duration
2 class periodsAuthor
Gretchen
Loken
Standards
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information4: The physical and human characteristics of places
5: That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
15: How physical systems affect human systems
17: How to apply geography to interpret the past
18: How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future
Teacher Instructions
LokenStormT.pdf
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Student Materials
LokenStormS.pdf
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Storm_Trackers_v4.pdf
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hurr_hugo.jpg
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hurr_isabelrgb.jpg
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katrina-08-28-2005.jpg
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Materials To Assist Teachers and English Language Learners
Supplemental Files
hurr_compare.jpg
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