4.3. Typhoon Bulletin

Lesson Objectives

Task 1: Access the website 'https://www.brainpop.com/'. Login in using the following details:

Search for Hurricanes and watch the visual presentation
Take the Quiz - do the Review first and then take the Graded quiz
Task 2: Access the website 'http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/outreach/games/canelab.htm'
Play the game 'Create a Cane' for 10 minutes. Record the four ‘ingredients’ for a typhoon in your notebooks.

Task 3: Go to Slide 5 'What are hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones?' Let's watch the video and answer the questions below

What four variables occur simultaneously in a tropical storm?
What geographical locations do cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes usually take place?
Where do hurricanes usually begin their life?
What two temperatures were mentioned that are necessary for hurricanes to develop initially, and then develop into major storms?
What are the two elements hurricanes need to form around?
Hurricanes can only develop around a narrow band between 8 degrees and 20 degrees north of the Equator. Why is this?

Task 4: Download the document '2.Typhoon vocab'. Complete the vocabulary matching activity

Go over the responses to Task 4
Task 5: Watch the following clips on typhoons in Hong Kong and in your Google doc, describe one major impact the typhoon had on Hong Kong (Make sure you incorporate unit vocabulary) - try and think of a different impact for each typhoon.

Typhoon Haima

Typhoon Nida

Typhoon Vicente

Typhoon Molave

Task 7: Super Typhoon Haiyan
With sustained winds of 315 kph, Super Typhoon Haiyan was the strongest tropical cyclone to hit land anywhere in recorded history -CNN

Enhanced infrared satellite loop of Typhoon Haiyan from peak intensity to landfall in the Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan

Task 8: How is extreme weather linked to climate change and global warming? Watch the following video and find out!

In your opinion, what are the five key pieces of information about climate change - write them in your document and prepare to discuss (you may need to watch the video more than once)

Task 9: Is there a relationship between climate change and extreme weather? Let's see what two climate scientists have to say

Task 10: Having watched the two videos above, which source is more credible?

How do typhoons and hurricanes get their name?

Evolution of Typhoon Signals in Hong Kong - http://www.weather.gov.hk/informtc/tcsignal_history.htm

Task 11: Typhoon Warning Signals in Hong Kong - download the document '3. Storm Signals.docx'. Read about the impact of each storm signal and then illustrate each level with a drawing of what it might look like.
We will take examples of student work for Task 10 and discuss why these specific visual images were used
Task 12: Disaster Preparedness - download the document '3. Reducing Impact.docx'. Complete the following activities Read the information in the document and match the strategy to its explanation
Go through the responses to the Task 11

Disaster preparedness

Task 13: Use the information from this activity and the previous video to write a ‘Typhoon To Do List’- a precautionary plan for your family
Task 14: Access the following website to play a game about Disaster Preparedness - http://www.stopdisastersgame.org. You can view an example of a student's work below:

Stop Disasters Game Hurricane

Introduction to the summative assessment - download the document 'Summative Typhoon Poster'. Place this document into your Google Folder.
We will go through all the key elements of the summative assessment starting with the research
How to create a Poster: CARP Principles of Design

Creating a brand

See pages 11-14 of your document for information on the CARP Elements of Design
Task 15: Observe the two posters for the Transformers movie franchise. Can you make out the CARP elements in practice and, in your opinion, which poster communicates these principles better

4. Summative Typhoon Poster 2018-19.docx

Typhoon poster A.pdf

Typhoon poster B.pdf

Typhoon poster 2.pdf