This Teaching Box combines activities, data analysis, and discussion to help high school students consider how weather can affect clouds and how clouds can affect climate.
Resource Type: Activities
Students learn that storms with unusual amounts of rainfall can cause a flash flood.
Flash floods happen when quick and heavy rainfall causes placid waterways to turn into raging torrents. This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn the science of flash flooding. Students will learn that storms with unusually heavy rainfall can cause a flood, that the shape of the land and the ability of the ground to hold water influences whether a flood is likely, and they will learn how flash flood risk and probability is assessed. Get your feet wet by bringing the science of flash floods.
Resource Type: Activities
Students learn that water flows downhill on land and that the shape of the land and the ability of water to soak into the ground influences whether a rainstorm causes a flash flood.
Students learn how flash flood risk and probability is assessed.
Build your own understanding of flash floods with additional resources, data, maps, and research.
Students learn how tornadoes form and the atmospheric conditions that are conducive to tornadoes.
Tornadoes, also called twisters, are rare and powerful weather events in which columns of air rotate dangerously fast. In this teaching box are resources to help students learn why and where tornadoes happen and how these weather events impact people’s lives.
Resource Type: Activities
Students will understand where tornadoes happen.
Students will learn how tornadoes impact communities and develop a safety plan.