Education and FAQs

FAQ: Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones - An excellent, detailed, and up to date catalogue of commonly asked questions and answers, with additional links for more information.

Florida Division of Emergency Management - Division of Emergency Management manages the overall response and recovery efforts to natural and technological disaster response in Florida by integrating resources statewide.

How Stuff Works: Hurricanes - Three-part explanation of hurricanes, with many related links.

Hurricane Blog - Hurricane news and information. Hurricane and weather science.

Hurricane Georges: An Interdisciplinary Lesson - 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.

Hurricane Theme Pages - Gander Academy's web site for student research and teaching activities about hurricanes.

Lesson Planning: Hurricane Watch - Hurricane learning, lesson plans, and science projects for elementary school grades and above, by Education World.

Miami Museum of Science-Hurricane Main Menu - Superb science lessons and explanations.

Movement of Hurricanes - An explanation of global wind movements and hurricanes from the University of Illinois.

My Hurricane Tips - Tips, tools, resources and up to the minute news on the hurricane season.

NPR: Hurricane Season - Animation illustrating the Saffir-Simpson scale and the type of damage caused by each category of hurricanes, and a map showing the path of previous hurricanes from 1850 to today.

Science Education Pages - The National Data Bouy Center, with an interactive questions and answers asking such questions as, "What are hurricanes?" and "How do winter storms differ from summer storms?"

Selected Hurricane Readings - A bibliography of books suitable for middle school, high school, and teachers.

Wind and Sea - 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.