When teaching about disasters, like the natural disaster hurricane, it is important to remember to give as much information to help students better understand the disaster all while teaching them important skills. Thinkfinity offers links to help teach students about hurricanes (http://www.thinkfinity.org/hurricanes). One of the links is BBC’s Animated Guide to Hurricanes. Before a student experiences a hurricane, or even after, I believe it is important to understand how hurricanes are formed. The teacher can use this view to help assist teachers in teaching the formation of hurricans. After viewing this animated guide I believe it would be most effective to use Hurricanes 1: The Science of Hurricanes’ E-sheet to view Hurriane Andrew which devastated the southeast U.S. in 1992. The second portion of the E-sheet shows the students the anatomy of a hurricane and third portion has the students read about Hurricane Andrew as has them respond. A follow up to The Science of Hurricanes is Hurricanes 2: Tracking Hurricanes E-sheet which helps students understand how technology can assist in viewing and tracking hurricanes. After teaching a lesson to help students understand the hurricane and seeing pictures of past hurricanes one can find pictures, models, etc. of a current hurricane (in this case Hurricane Irene) and compare and contrast the hurricanes. Using another link from Thinkfinity one can even have teach the lesson on Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters.
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