The brief introduction to El Niño presented in this article also offers insights into its role during the quiet 2009 hurricane season. This article is part of the Climate Kids website, a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
This article from the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle provides appropriate science lessons for Grades K-5. The focus is on acquainting young learners with climate-change concepts that are not too complex for their grade level and will not frighten them. In each issue, the magazine develops articles around one of the seven essential principles of climate science. The author believes early lessons about water availability and extreme weather events will prepare students for complex climate concepts they will encounter in later grades.
This article identifies age-appropriate national science education content standards and curriculum connections for introducing complex concepts contained in Principle 7 of the Essential Principles of Climate Sciences. The principle describes consequences of climate changes on Earth systems and human lives. The content standards will help teachers determine appropriate topics for their students. A number of resources from the online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle are highlighted for their connection to the science curriculum in the early grades. In addition, the article identifies common misconceptions about weather and the water cycle often held by students.
This multimedia resource, part of the NC Science Now series, describes a new computer model of storm surge, developed by the UNC Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Science, that leads to a new way for NOAA to issue hurricane warnings starting this year. The model also allows forecasters to better predict the area most likely to experience flooding due to storm surge following hurricane winds. Components of this resource include a video, related text articles, and an interview with David Glenn, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Morehead City, NC. Links to these components are provided on the page under the heading "UNC-TV Media."
When New England was hit by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, there was not a satellite monitoring tropical storms that far north; the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was operating in a band between the 35-degree latitudes. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission will change that. GPM will build upon TRMM's capacity by examining a larger swath of Earth with instruments that are more advanced and more sensitive. This video introduces the GPM satellite, its instruments and their capabilities.
This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.
This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML
This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.
This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML
This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.
This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML
This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.
This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML
This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.
REMIX: Tie-in Impact of storm by looking at specific storm data points before, during and well after US landfall.
This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML
This resource is a 4 x 6" lenticular card on NASA's HS3 (Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel) aircraft mission, which will overfly tropical storms and hurricanes using NASA's Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the Northern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. These flights will improve our understanding of the processes that lead to the development of intense hurricanes. The mission will take place for one-month periods during the 2012, 2013, and 2014 Atlantic Basin hurricane seasons.
This article highlights resources that can be used to supplement lessons on extreme weather, including games and video clips. The article appears in the free, online magazine for K-Grade 5 teachers Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The magazine focuses on the essential principles of climate science.
This activity helps students learn how to find, interpret, and describe weather data. Students learn also about drought, flooding, wind and dust storms, hurricanes, and lightning, as well as the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite -- the information it provides and why that information is important.
In the wake of a hurricane and beset by an economic recession, the University of Texas Medical Branch on Galveston Island rebuilt for future resilience.
After conducting an assessment that showed their buildings vulnerability to wind damage, the Nicklaus Childrens Hospital in Miami looked for a way to improve safety for patients and staff.
Hurricane Sandy served as a wake-up call for many coastal communities along the East Coast: they learned that planning and preparation for future hazards and climate change impacts needs to take place before the next disaster. As this type of planning was new to many communities, they needed assistance in identifying the most beneficial data, tools, and resources that could inform their local planning and decision making.