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Students click on fronts and describe in journal what they say. Excellent example of the progression of each front and how to describe each.

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Engaging lab

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Egg in The Bottle - Cool Science Experiment

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Eggs, glass bottles and fire are a strange combination... unless you're Steve Spangler. Today, our science guy is answering one of your questions from Twitter about the classic egg in the bottle trick. And yes, Kathy is wearing a flame retardant dress! Want more experiments like this?

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Engage: Pressure in a bottle instructions: SpanglerScience

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Students describe direction, weather symbol, movement, etc.

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Students describe direction, weather symbol, movement, etc.

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Manipulation map. Students will place symbols in locations according to teacher's descriptive question.

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Allows students to practice reading maps, filling in charts, tables, and predicting future hurricanes

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GOOD FOR EXTENSION OR IB UNIT GRASP ACTIVITY:
Students read articles, present information to classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane's story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, who was affected and how they reacted.  Home site link attached below:

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In late August 2011, Hurricane Irene traveled through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States. It was an unusual storm because it made landfall many times along its path. This led to news coverage from many different areas.

As a tropical storm, Irene made landfall in St. Criox on August 20 and in Puerto Rico on August 21. Irene intensified to a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall in the Bahamas. Irene weakened to a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall in North Carolina on August 27 and weakened to a tropical storm while making landfall in New York and New Jersey on August 28. Irene continued to plow north as an extratropical cyclone, moving across Vermont and New Hampshire and into Quebec province on August 28 and 29.

About Hurricanes in the Atlantic

Hurricanes, the name for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, are intense storms with high winds, torrential rains, and low pressure. Hurricanes in the Atlantic usually start as thunderstorms and other atmosphere disturbances in the tropical Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa and grow into tropical depressions. With high enough winds, a tropical depression becomes a tropical storm. With even stronger winds, the storm becomes a hurricane. Hurricanes rotate around an "eye" (a calm area with light winds and fair weather). When hurricanes come onshore, the heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and large waves can cause massive damage In the Atlantic, hurricane season is June 1 until November 30 each year.

One reason that hurricanes take paths that curve either into the Gulf of Mexico or up the Atlantic Coast is because of the location of high and low pressure systems. The winds flowing around highs and lows can steer hurricanes. High pressure systems are the thickest parts of the atmosphere, while low pressure systems are the thinnest. The Bermuda High is an area of high pressure that moves east and west in the North Atlantic Ocean. During the Northern Hemisphere summer and fall, it sits over the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, near Bermuda. Since hurricanes are steered by the winds around a high, the Bermuda High impacts the track and size of hurricanes. It can make them move up the east coast of the United States.

Why Is Weather in the News?

News media outlets (including newspapers, T.V. news, websites, blogs) carry stories about weather for several reasons. Of course, weather forecasts for the next several days are a staple in news (everyone want's to know if they should bring an umbrella!) but when there is a severe weather event, news media outlets carry the story with different sorts of coverage. There are forecast reports, and also stories about how communities are preparing for the event and the devastation that the event caused.

Severe weather events such as hurricanes have paths that are predicted days in advance. The weather event is in the news for days or even weeks. The stories usually have an angle such as (1) reports of storm prediction from meteorologists, (2) reports of community warnings and preparations, (3) reports on the storm during the event, (4) reports of the aftermath - the people affected and their efforts to recover.

Extensions

Strengthen writing skills by having students write a story about Hurricane Irene based on the articles.

If a hurricane (or other severe weather event) happens during the school year, have students apply the skills learned through this activity to track the storm and its impacts through news reports.

Have students make a GIS Story Map out of their notes from each article to combine the timeline with the geographical context.

Resources

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In late August 2011, Hurricane Irene traveled through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States. It was an unusual storm because it made landfall many times along its path. This led to news coverage from many different areas. As a tropical storm, Irene made landfall in St.

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Weather and Climate

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Students inquire and analyze the components needed to create a hurricane in this investigation.

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NHC Outreach Resources -- Games: Create-a-Cane | Aim a Hurricane

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In Washington, the storm forced organizers to indefinitely postpone the dedication of the new memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was scheduled for Sunday.

W. Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the hurricane was likely to drop as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas. "This will not just be a coastal storm," he said. "We can see impacts well inland."

Amtrak announced that it was canceling train service for Friday, Saturday and Sunday south of Washington because of the storm. Service in the Northeast Corridor is not affected.

Forecasters said Irene presented some unusual problems. For one thing, it is uncommonly large: hurricane-force winds of at least 74 m.p.h. extended 70 miles from its center on Thursday, and winds of at least 40 m.p.h. reached 255 miles out.

The storm was also moving due north slowly, about 14 m.p.h., compared with speeds of 30 to 40 m.p.h. for similar storms, said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the hurricane center. Both the hurricane's size and slow pace could intensify flooding in the Middle Atlantic states and in the Northeast, where the ground is already saturated in places from heavy rains this summer.

A tropical storm warning was also in effect in South Carolina, and conditions along the coast there are expected to deteriorate as the hurricane passes on Friday. It spared Florida for the most part as it lashed the Bahamas, but the authorities in Palm Beach County said at least eight people were injured when they were hit by a hurricane-spawned wave on a Boynton Beach Inlet jetty, The Associated Press reported.

Emergencies were declared in five states, and evacuations were expanded as far north as New Jersey. "The latest tracking tells us that this is going to become more serious than less," Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said at a news conference.

The New Jersey evacuations were voluntary, for the time being. But here on the Outer Banks, they were mandatory, and tourists were told to leave the barrier islands as soon as possible.

By Thursday evening, a line of vehicles four miles long was snaking toward the main bridge in Kill Devil Hills. But some vacationers said they were staying put awhile longer. "We paid for a whole week; we're staying," said Erica Shore, 18.

Ms. Shore's friends Johanna Farrand, 15, and Brennan Johnson, 16, noticed that the beach emptied out on Thursday. And in a phone call on Thursday, the real estate agent who rented the beach house to the group required each of them to identify their next of kin - somewhat to the teenagers' surprise. Brennan recalled telling the agent, "Dude, we'll be gone."

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Hurricane Irene's Approach Forces East Coast to Batten Down

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In Washington, the storm forced organizers to indefinitely postpone the dedication of the new memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was scheduled for Sunday. W. Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the hurricane was likely to drop as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas.

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The storm, now classified as a Category 3 hurricane, could make landfall in eastern North Carolina on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "It may get a little stronger over the next day or two," said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.

As it moves over the Bahamas, the storm may head more northwest, which would put it roughly in line with the North Carolina coast, forecasters said, and nearly every state along the East Coast would be affected.

At a news conference on Wednesday morning, Governor Perdue said her oft-repeated message was aimed specifically at people in eastern North Carolina: "We want folks there to take this storm seriously."

But it is the height of vacation season here, and, hurricane or no, some people have preferred not to interrupt their summer breaks and leisure activities, even finding natural disasters part of the appeal.

Surfers on Wrightsville Beach have been watching the weather reports closely. If the hurricane continues to steer east of the coast, it creates a good swell, optimal surfing conditions. But if the storm comes closer, the surf will be "windy and disorganized," said Michael Casper, 16, an employee of Sweetwater Surf Shop in Wrightsville Beach.

The shop canceled surfing lessons for the weekend and decided not to rent boards, an effort to prevent novice surfers from taking a chance in what he calls "victory at sea," meaning "when sea is so wild there's nothing you can do and you can't really be in it," he said.

Ellen Thompson, 74, who works in a gift shop at the beach and lives a few miles away, said she enjoyed "Mother Nature" - including severe storms.

"I've been through Fran," she said. "I've been through them all. They're exciting to me."

Others, though, were dutifully taking a more cautious approach.

One Wal-Mart reported selling out of bottled water, and other stores were without generators and weather radios. Various outdoor events - high school football games, concerts and farmers markets - had been called off.

At Island Tackle and Hardware in Carolina Beach, N.C., people were picking up rope and plywood to board up windows and filling propane tanks.

Dennis Barbour, the shop owner, was discussing the 1996 hurricane season, when Hurricanes Bertha and Fran hit the region.

"Personally, I'm checking my generator at home," said Mr. Barbour, a former mayor of Carolina Beach who has lived there for 45 years. "We have a generator at the store."

"It doesn't bother me to be overprepared and not get much of a blow," he said.

And as the first day of classes began on Wednesday at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, school officials advised students to make evacuation plans, especially if their families lived more than four hours away.

Erin Danneker, 18, a freshman, and her sister Megan Danneker, 21, a senior, discussed the looming hurricane as they signed up for meal plans. Much of the chatter on campus revolved around the hurricane.

"We don't want anything bad to happen," Megan Danneker said, "but we really want classes to be canceled."

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In North Carolina, Less Than Dread as Storm Lopes Northward

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The storm, now classified as a Category 3 hurricane, could make landfall in eastern North Carolina on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "It may get a little stronger over the next day or two," said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the National Hurricane Center.

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Hurricane Irene continued its trek towards the Northeast and threatens the most serious hurricane activity to hit the region since at least 1991. As the Capital Weather Gang's Andrew Freedman reported :

Millions of people from Philadelphia northward to Maine are bracing for what may be their closest encounter with a hurricane since at least 1991. Depending on the exact path and strength of Irene at its closest pass, the storm has the very real potential to sock New Jersey, Southeastern New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts with the region's fiercest hurricane or strong tropical storm in many years. In fact, most New Yorkers have never seen a hurricane pass over or just to the west of the city, a track that would bring a dangerous storm surge into highly populated and pricey real estate.

Even if Irene loses some of its punch as works its way up the coast, moderate to major impacts - including flooding, downed trees and significant power outages - are still anticipated in the heart of the urban corridor from Philadelphia to Boston, especially near and east of I-95.

As detailed by New York City's Department of Emergency Management, most of the hurricanes that have caused damage in the city have passed east of Manhattan, over Long Island or Southeast Massachusetts. There was a hurricane that made a direct hit on Manhattan in 1821, however. That example does not bode well:

"The tide rose 13 feet in one hour and inundated wharves, causing the East River to converge into the Hudson River across lower Manhattan as far north as Canal Street. However, few deaths were attributed to the storm because flooding was concentrated in neighborhoods with far fewer homes than exist today," the city Web site states.

Residents of the Outer Banks of North Carolina face the choice of evacuation or hunkering down to wait out Hurricane Irene as it passes through. As the Post's Shyamantha Asokan explained:

On a normal day in the August peak season, Cahoon's Market wouldn't be able to sell its deck chairs, beach toys and beers fast enough. But over the past 48 hours, this general store on North Carolina's vulnerable coast has mostly been selling water, crackers and batteries to its remaining few customers.

"We've managed to get a bit of business today - but that's because we're the only store still open," said Brad Donnan, the store's manager, as he glanced around the quiet aisles. "I've lived here for 22 years and this one might be the worst one I've ever seen."

As Hurricane Irene nears the Outer Banks, a thread of land just off the state's main coastline, tourists have been hurriedly vacating its popular beaches. Residents have been hunkering down for what could be northeast coast's most serious tropical storm in the past 50 years. Previous hurricanes have left roads blocked and homes without electricity here for over a week.

Irene is expected to hit the Outer Banks overnight Friday and then move up the shoreline to Washington, New York and points north over the weekend.

By Friday afternoon, Nags Head was a ghost town. Almost all of the motels and swimwear shops on the main thoroughfares were closed. Several were boarded up. The weather was cloudy and humid.

Local ocean rescue officials, armed with walkie-talkies in case cellphone signals go down during and after the storm, had placed red flags in the sea to warn people that swimming was already unsafe. Police officers were going to door-to-door to remind residents that the county-wide mandatory evacuation orders did not just apply to tourists.

President Obama urged residents in the path of Hurricane Irene to take the necessary precautions in advance of its arrival, and then took his own advice, cutting short his vacation to return to Washington Friday evening. As Washington Post White House reporter David Nakamura reported:

President Obama is cutting his vacation short.

Obama told his staff that he would return from Martha's Vineyard to Washington Friday evening, a day earlier than planned, to monitor the progress of Hurricane Irene, a Category 2 storm that will move up the eastern seaboard after making landfall Friday in North Carolina.

The president's wife and two daughters will remain on the island until Saturday, White House officials said.

Obama read a three-minute statement to reporters Friday discussing his administration's preparations for the storm.

"I cannot stress this highly enough: If you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. Don't wait. Don't delay," he said. "We all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. All of us have to take this storm seriously."

Obama had disregarded critics who had said his 10-day vacation on a 28-acre compound on the tony island would send the wrong signal at a time when 14 million Americans are out of work.

He played at least three rounds of golf and spent parts of at least three days at the beach, according to press pool reports. He also hit a local bookstore and spent time visiting wealthy donor friends.

More from The Washington Post

Hurricane Tracking Center with Tweets from NHC

Q&A transcript: Prepare for Hurricane Irene

Live updates: Follow the storm all day

Tropical Storm Warning for most of D.C. metro area

Hurricane Warning for Va/Md/De Beaches

Irene: Are You Prepared?

Live webcams of East Coast beaches

Federal Eye updates

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Hurricane Irene continues path towards New York, Philadelphia, Boston and the rest of the Northeast

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Hurricane Irene continued its trek towards the Northeast and threatens the most serious hurricane activity to hit the region since at least 1991. As the Capital Weather Gang's Andrew Freedman reported : Millions of people from Philadelphia northward to Maine are bracing for what may be their closest encounter with a hurricane since at least 1991.