education and faqs

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• - Outline of a 4th grade lesson plan taking 5 days which uses video, an audio tape, and various other teaching aids.
  
• - Three-part explanation of hurricanes, with many related links.
  
• - FAQs about hurricanes, particularly for students and teachers. Offers to answer questions submitted by e-mail.
  
• - Teacher's lesson plan about hurricanes. Requires no more than a 486 classroom computer and software downloaded from here. Sponsored by Tools for the Teks: Integrating Technology in the Classroom.
  
• - Chief sponsor of the annual Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. More generally, AMS promotes the development, dissemination, information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences.
  
• - Gander Academy's web site for student research and teaching activities about hurricanes.
  
• - The National Data Bouy Center, with an interactive Q & A asking such questions as, "What are hurricanes?" and "How do winter storms differ from summer storms?"
  
• - An explanation of global wind movements and hurricanes from the University of Illinois.
  
• - Hurricane news and information. Hurricane and weather science.
  
• - Teachers' and Students' corner providing links to over 100 educational sites of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as well as links to many other Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric educational sites.
  
• - Hurricane learning, lesson plans, and science projects for elementary school grades and above, by Education World.
  
• - An excellent, detailed, and up to date catalogue of commonly asked questions and answers, with additional links for more information.
  
• - An integrated weather unit of six lessons incorporating interaction with the Internet and hands-on collaborative, problem solving activities for students in grades four through six.
  
• - A bibliography of books suitable for middle school, high school, and teachers.
  
• - Superb science lessons and explanations.
  
• - On-going field test of an elementary school teacher's hurricane learning sequence, sponsored by the Miami Museum of Science.
  
• - Division of Emergency Management manages the overall response and recovery efforts to natural and technological disaster response in Florida by integrating resources statewide.
  
• - A stimulating classroom exercise designed to challenge students, make them think, and encourage them to rise to the demands of real-world problems. The lesson plan includes materials for students who are being mainstreamed into the regular class.
  
• - 6 classroom learning activities about the Pacific, including "Monsoon Madness." Provided by Florida Geographic Alliance.