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

The National Data Bouy Center, with an interactive Q & A asking such questions as, "What are hurricanes?" and "How do winter storms differ from summer storms?"

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

Hurricane learning, lesson plans, and science projects for elementary school grades and above, by Education World.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Superb science lessons and explanations.

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