4.3. Typhoon Bulletin

Lesson Objectives

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

1. Username: rchk
2. Password: lirc

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

How do typhoons and hurricanes get their name?

See - https://public.wmo.int/en/About-us/FAQs/faqs-tropical-cyclones/tropical-cyclone-naming

• 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

• 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:

• 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

• 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

• You can begin your research on typhoons in Hong Kong