Hurricanes Unit Labs

• In this series of nine labs about hurricanes, students will study satellite imagery, videos, and animated visualizations, learn about weather systems, air pressure, and heat transfer, and access a live hurricane tracker tool.
  
• Each lab can be divided up into smaller sections and many can be completed individually in a flipped classroom format.
  

Positives

• There are so many great labs to choose from and they include assessments to check for understanding.
• Key questions and learning objectives are outlined in the teacher pages.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Review teacher resources for general background information relevant to each lab.
• Students will need access to the Internet.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies classes could use some of these labs to connect to topics such as sea level rise, climate justice, and climate migration.
• Science classes can use these labs to connect to various topics in chemistry, physics, and Earth science classes.
• Biology classes can connect these labs with lessons about ecosystems, the greenhouse effect, biomes, and natural disasters.