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Mission 4 - Lesson 2: Tropical Cyclones
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Primary: Lesson Plan
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Monster Storms
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Mission 4: The Hunt
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Science
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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lesson plan, mission 4
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00:00:00 (HH:MM:SS)
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Teachers
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8/13/2007
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From: Monster Storms Mission 4: The Hunt |
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Mission 4 - Lesson 2: Tropical Cyclones Describe the structure and dynamic nature of tropical cyclones. |
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Time required: 60 minutes
- Students will need paper for creating their picture dictionaries.
- Create all transparencies for Mission 4.
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Transparencies to support Mission 4. |
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To be used with Mission 4. |
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To be used with Mission 4. |
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Motivate |
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Discuss your challenges/findings with Google Earth.
If you completed the critical thinking activity, present your findings to the class. |
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Instructions:
- Read the Flying into the Eye article on page 70 and circle all adjectives (and other words) that describe the emotion and feeling of flying into a hurricane.
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A powerful hurricane is moving towards the East Coast of the United States. While most people are trying to flee the path of the storm, a group of scientists is flying into it! One of the scientists is Jason Dunion, a research meteorologist with NOAA's Hurricane Research Division. Read about Jason and his work. |
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- Use the teacher's edition to facilitate a discussion of what students read.
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Instructions: - When finished, watch the Mission 4 Briefing video while answering the guiding questions.
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Learn about what a hurricane is and how it forms, what influences a hurricane's strength, how scientists measure the conditions in a hurricane, and how to interpret a storm's intensity. You are also invited to join NOAA research meteorologist Jason Dunion in a Digital Lab, which contains tools to predict the path and intensity of incoming hurricanes. |
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These are the guiding questions for the videos that appear in missions 1-5. |
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- Then, read the mission briefing article: Tropical Cyclones on page 71. Either draw a picture and use the vocabulary words as labels, or create a picture dictionary of the new vocabulary words presented.
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In this briefing, discover the characteristics and structure of a hurricane, and learn how hurricanes are a form of tropical cyclone. |
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- For a quick assessment of what students have learned, choose a couple questions from either the assessment center, or class discussion to answer (or re-answer) on a half sheet of paper, or in their JASON Journals.
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If you have internet access at home, complete the Hurricanes and History connection, and write a short response about how history might have been different if these hurricanes or other events had not occurred. |
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