Hurricane Georges: An Interdisciplinary Lesson
Student Web Links

Students: Here are the links you need to complete this assignment:

• Your Project Instruction Sheet: page 1 (the questions) and page 2 (the tracking chart)
• CNN Links (these may expire)
  • Hurricane Georges becomes 'extremely dangerous' storm - 20 Sept 98
  • Georges belts Dominican Republic: Powerful hurricane plows through Puerto Rico - 22 Sept 98
  • A look at the damage wrought by Hurricane Georges - 25 Sept 98
  • Hurricane Georges spares Florida ...for now - 26 Sept 98
  • Georges deluges Gulf Coast - 29 Sept 98
  • Georges losses counted: 'Everything gone' - 30 Sept 98
• Map of Georges' path across the Caribbean (your map will look to similar to this one)
• Complete weather data for Tropical Storm / Hurricane Georges: Use this webpage if you want to plot more points than those listed on your instruction sheet.
• Photos of Georges' path across Puerto Rico (originals: http://www.endi.com)
• 1998 Hurricane Storm tracks: January through September, 1998 (original: http://www.fema.gov/hu98/tracks98.gif)
• Graph of when hurricanes form (original: http://www.fema.gov/hu97/strmfrm.htm)
• World Time Scale information, including "GMT" or "Zulu" time (http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/world.html)
• Hurricane Classifications: The Saffir Simpson Scale (http://www.citi-net.com/george/ss-scale.html)

If you have "LIVE" internet access, the following links may also be helpful:

• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (www.noaa.gov)
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Satellite Server (www.goes.noaa.gov)
• The site "El Nuevo Dia Interactivo" (www.endi.com) is the Puerto Rican equivalent of CNN in Spanish.
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency website (www.fema.gov)
• FEMA's Tropical Storm Watch page (www.fema.gov/fema/trop.htm)
• Information about hurricane origins is available from The Weather Channel online at http://www.weather.com/breaking_weather/encyclopedia/tropical/origins.html
• Visit www.cnn.com/video_vault/explore and search the video archive for the keyword "hurricane" to find videos clips about hurricanes.

Teachers: This page can be WebWhacked 2 levels deep for transfer to computers WITHOUT "live" internet access. Information about WebWhacker and other offline software is available.

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