Earth Sciences: Meteorology: Weather Phenomena: Hurricanes: Education and FAQs

Chief sponsor of the annual Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. More generally, AMS promotes the development, dissemination, information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences.

FAQs about hurricanes, particularly for students and teachers. Offers to answer questions submitted by e-mail.

6 classroom learning activities about the Pacific, including "Monsoon Madness." Provided by Florida Geographic Alliance.

Fun quiz asking all kinds of weather questions, some of which related to hurricanes.

An excellent, detailed, and up to date catalogue of commonly asked questions and answers, with additional links for more information.

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

This site from Gander Academy is designed for primary and secondary students and teachers. It presents a series of web pages listing hurricane related resources on the World Wide Web, plus interactive hurricane tracking maps for three famous storms.

Three-part explanation of hurricanes, with many related links.

Outline of a 4th grade lesson plan taking 5 days which uses video, an audio tape, and various other teaching aids.

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.