This lesson is designed and developed using the PBL instructional methodology.
PBL was utilized with students working in small groups to reach successful outcomes such as:
- developing critical thinking and creative skills
- improving problem-solving skills
- increasing motivation
- helping students learn to transfer knowledge to new situations
Objectives
The learner's (Middle School Grades 6-8) will…
Subject Areas:
- determine what conditions are necessary to create a hurricane.
- locate where hurricanes form and travel.
- understand when hurricane season starts and ends.
- describe the stages of development and recognize the parts of a hurricane.
- explain how the intensities of hurricanes are measured and the damage they inflict.
- understand how hurricanes are named.
Subject Areas:
- Earth Science > Hurricanes
- Social Studies > World > The World Map
- Art > Medium > Presentations
- Language Arts > Creative Writing/Research Skills > Interpreting graphs/charts
- Technology > Internet Research (Web 2.0 Tools) > Presentations
- Critical analysis
- Critical thinking
- Discussion
- Gathering, classifying and interpreting written, oral and visual information
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Representing ideas and information orally, graphically and in writing
- Using primary sources
- Visual analysis