Creator: Chris Kidler | visit site
Grade Range: 1 - 6
Sky Diary offers facts for students about hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, and storm chasing. Choose the link to each of the topics to find quick facts such as how tornadoes or hurricanes form, measuring intensity of hurricanes and tornadoes, or safety precautions. The storm chasing portion of the site offers insight into a typical storm chase, reality vs tv, and how to become a storm chaser. This simple site contains a great deal of useful weather information for classroom use.
In the Classroom
Share information from the site on your interactive whiteboard during weather, career, or storm preparedness units. Challenge students to create an avatar using a photo or other image (legally permitted to be reproduced). The avatars can be used to explain the development of hurricanes or tornadoes, or severe weather safety instructions. Use a site such as FotoFlexer, <a href="/single.cfm?id=14443">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Share this site with your student who is interested in storms or severe weather, or with a student who may have a fear of storms to help understand how they are formed and safety precautions to take.
Tags
hurricanes, weather, tornadoes, careers,