Hurricanes and Climate Change

• This resource about hurricanes and climate change includes a lesson plan, student worksheet, podcast, discussion, interactive computer modeling, and a graphing and data analysis exercise. 
• Students will learn about how hurricanes form, the economic costs of these storms, how climate change is making these storms more extreme, and what some coastal communities are doing to adapt.
  

Positives

• The podcast provides a great explanation of the science behind hurricane formation.
• The educator guide can help incorporate this topic into many subject areas including science, math, English language arts, and design.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know how to graph data.
  
• A timestamped transcript accompanies the podcast for offline use.

Differentiation

• The economic costs of hurricanes are discussed, which could be used to open a conversation on trade-offs between the costs of climate change and the costs to implement solutions.
• To add a more personal component that students could connect to, explore these Youth Climate Stories from Florida, Puerto Rico, and North Carolina.
• Other resources on hurricanes include the lesson plan Hurricanes, the NOAA Hurricane Tracker, and the video How Climate Change Has Intensified Hurricane Season.

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