Your learning will be presented in the form of a mind map. It is intended as an introductory exercise and you will have lots of questions about the how mind maps should be designed and how useful they may be for your future learning................sadly these questions can only be answered by yourselves. MindMaps should be personal to yourself and they map be of limited value to a small percentage of you.
Aims:
To know where in the world tropical storms form and the conditions needed for them to grow.
To understand the hazard they pose to many in the world.
To be able to offer a case study of a severe tropical storm (hurricane Katrina)
To be able to explain why Katrina was particularly damaging.
In addition to these academic aims most of you will gain an understanding of what a mind map is and how they van prove useful in a learning environment.
Outcome:
Each pupil will produce a "mind map" on A3 paper. Each mind map must contain certain information (see below).
You should aim to dedicate approximately half the space available to the topic of tropical storms in general and the remainder should focus on Hurricane Katrina.
Work will be done in class on what information you should be looking to include and notes on this may appear here at a later date.
AS a guide though you should remember the What? Why? Where? Who? When? and How? pricipals to Geography.
Computer Lesson 1 (Thursday)
You are to use this lesson to complete your research on;
the formation of Hurricanes,
http://www.defencedynamics.mod.uk/resource/view.html?id=238&lessonplans_id=217
http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/geo0008.html
and the naming and classification of Hurricanes.
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/
ABC OF HURRICANES - American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/010524ABCs.html
Computer Lesson 2 (Friday)
Use this lesson to find out deatails about your case study, Hurricane Katrina
Useful Stuff
BBC NEWS ON HURRICANE KATRINA INCLUDING ANIMATED GUIDE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm
NASA
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2008/jan/28/hurricanes
Animation Showing Hurricane Categories
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/hurricane/ap/
IMAGES S:\Read Areas\Geography\Year 8
Extension: What do you think this cartoon from the Guardian newspaper is trying to say?
the following link will take you to a word document on mind mapping
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6139840/How-to-Mind-Map
