Part 1: Hurricanes Affect Us
Hurricanes Affect Us is Part 1 of Hurricane Resilience, a high school environmental science curriculum for use in coastal locations where hurricanes are common.
The three lessons in this part of the curriculum are linked below along with associated resources such as presentation slides, interactive visualizations, hurricane data, and videos that are needed for each lesson.
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About Hurricane Resilience
Through 20 days of instruction, students make connections between the science of hurricanes, how they affect their community and region, and how we can plan for a more resilient future. Making local connections, students develop an understanding of 1) the risks that their community faces now and in the future due to hurricanes and tropical storms, 2) how sea level rise increases the risk, and 3) how our actions can help us be less vulnerable and more resilient. The curriculum unit aims to empower high school students to have a voice in resilience planning and understand the relationship between the science of hurricanes and the local impacts these storms have on people and places.
- Part 1: Hurricane Affect Us (current page)
- Part 2: Hurricane Characteristics & Future Projections
- Part 3: Planning for Hurricane Resilience
- View the full Hurricane Resilience curriculum.
The Hurricane Resilience curriculum was prepared by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) under award NA18SEC0080003 from the Environmental Literacy Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the U.S. Department of Commerce. The UCAR Science Center for Science Education created this curriculum in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Laboratory and the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center in Houma, Louisiana.