Week 15: Hurricane

Week Fifteen: Hurricane
Geoengineering, "Forming the Earth"
Weeks 13, 14, and 15 make up a three-week cycle about a hurricane. Currently, you are in the Classroom Application week of the cycle.

This week you should refer to the resources listed under Readings & Recommendations, and you need to complete the assignment listed under Classroom Application Assignment & Rubric. This week’s assignment focuses on …

Creating or contributing activities to help your students develop the concepts you have explored in your studies of a hurricane
Contributing to Resource Space the location of Internet sites or print material you have discovered that can be used as content resources or activities for students
Responding to other class members' contributions

You have the option of doing an extra credit Local Event Study.

Classroom Application Assignment & Rubric
This week you will develop cooperative activities that engage your students in understanding Earth as a system through analyzing the causes and effects of an event.

Click on Classroom Application Assignment & Rubric for directions.

Local Event Assignment & Rubric
You also have the option of doing a Local Event Assignment & Rubric this week.

Readings & Recommendations

Read: "Woods on Fire". This article provides some background on the question of whether fires should be left to burn their course in forests.

Read: ILT Publications See the readings on pedagogy and technology.

Recommended Web Site: Planetary Engineering Bibliography