Hurricane Tracking
Learning Target
Students will analyze satellite data to track and predict information about hurricanes.
Success Criteria
I can collect and analyze data about the origins and paths of hurricanes.
I can identify patterns regarding hurricanes.
Questions to Ponder
What do you know about hurricanes?
How have hurricanes affected you?
Where would you expect to find a hurricane?
Hurricane Tracking
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The NHC mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous tropical weather and by increasing understanding of these hazards.
Hurricane Tracking Chart
Click the image of the map to download a Hurricane Tracking Chart.
Collecting Data
Use the Hurricane Tracking link and the tracking chart to collect data each day about Atlantic Hurricanes for 2 weeks.
Use the same symbols to locate and describe the paths of the hurricanes.
Include dates of each observation.
After two weeks of data..
Hurricane Tracking
Click the question mark to answer a question about the hurricane tracking lesson.
Hurricane Motion Gizmo
Use data from up to three weather stations to predict the motion of a hurricane. The wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover and air pressure are provided for each station using standard weather symbols.
Mr. Honer's Gizmo Class Codes
Period 1 - PQLWT39TVV
Period 2 - TWLV4J
Period 3 - PPRPZD
Period 4 - CGZQQV
Meteorology