This brief video lesson discusses the weather conditions that foster tsunami formation. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are also included.

Explore relationships between temperature, pressure, and humidity with daily weather forecasts.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

In this investigation, students will look at a number of videos, animations, and images in order to gain a better understanding of how hurricanes work. In the first part, students will learn about some of the satellites that researchers use to study and make forecasts about hurricanes. Then students will get a chance to look "under the hood" of a hurricane to see how these storms develop.

In this activity students will learn about advances in computer models and observational methods which have made it possible to learn more about how hurricanes develop.

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

In this unit students will learn about hurricane season and patterns of hurricanes.

This online article describes hurricanes, how they form, and factors that cause them to intensify and/or weaken.

In this instructional module, students will learn about hurricanes and how they form. They will also investigate the factors that influence strength and intensity of hurricanes and how warm ocean waters fuel them.

In this lesson, students investigate the link between ocean temperatures and hurricane intensity, analyze instrumental and historic data and speculate on possible future changes.

Students will use real maps, images, and data to develop an ozone forecast for a particular day in Charlotte, North Carolina. They will then check their forecast against the actual ozone forecast and measurements for that day. Students should already have experience reading weather maps and forecasting weather before doing this activity.

Students will make a hurricane and learn about the factors that control that control the strength of the storm, including temperature, wind, and moisture.

Students will analyze a map that shows the surface weather conditions for Superstorm Sandy.

The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce the characteristics of cyclones, the associated air masses and fronts, and finally how to locate the center of a cyclone from wind observations. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.

The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce how precipitation develops along cold fronts and along warm fronts. Two animations have been constructed to visualize these distinctly different processes and students will use this information for comparison. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.

The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce characteristics of pressure, high and low pressure centers, and a brief analysis of an idealized pressure field. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.