HURRICANE KATRINA

LESSON PLANS & INFORMATION

Website compiled by Kathy Kaplan, Media Specialist, Carusi Middle School

HURRICANE KATRINA LESSON PLANS

Lesson on Hurricane Katrina and the Media

Excellent!

Language Arts Teachers -- Possibly use this for "feature article" tie-in

Handle a Hurricane!

Students Become Mayor of a City

Hurricane Lesson Plans

For MANY subject areas -- including Language Arts,  Math & Art!

From Education World

 

NASA Grades 5 - 8 Lesson:  Predicting Hurricanes from Measurement and Data Analysis. 

Interactive!

Lesson: Eye of the Hurricane

From National Geographic

After Hurricane Katrina

Tips for Teachers

From Scholastic Online

 

Hurricane Katrina Instructional Resource Center

Cherry Hill Schools

Click on: Welcome, Activities School Sites, Tips for Teachers, and MultiMedia

Lesson: Hurricane Tracking

Hurricane Storm Science

Elementary or Special Ed - Interactive!

 

Miami Museum of Science

The Disaster Spot

Teaches about hurricanes, and how to prepare for them

 

NASA Hurricane Links

 

HURRICANE KATRINA INFORMATION

 

New York Times Coverage of Katrina

Hurricane and Katrina Information

From Timeforkids.com

Excellent!

Online News Hour: After Hurricane Katrina

From PBS

 

Hurricane Katrina

From About.Com

Hurricane Online Meteorology Guide

 

Hurricane Visualizations (Images)

 

Environmental Lessons to be Learned from Katrina

From Nova ScienceNOW

 

Hurricane Background Information

From CNN