Lab Assignment
What content area and specific topic are you focusing on?
What instructional strategy will you be using?
Reflect on your lesson and the use of your strategy. On a piece of paper, write down:
What went well?
What didn't go quite as planned?
How could you improve this lesson/use of your strategy?
The topic: Hurricanes in America
Standard: Students learn many concepts about hurricanes.
Learning Objectives
After completing the lessons students will be able to:
1. Define hurricane.
2. Determine what conditions are necessary to create a hurricane.
3. Locate when and where hurricanes form and travel to within the Atlantic ocean.
4. To understand why hurricanes slow down and lose power when moving over land.
5. How the hurricanes form.
Pre-assessment
Hurricanes lessonFourth grade
1. What are hurricanes?
2. Which season of the year the do hurricanes begin?
3. What the last hurricane hit America?
4. Do you think hurricanes speed up or slow down while over land?
5. Would you rather live in an area that received fewer, very strong hurricanes or frequent, weaker storms? Why?
6. What is one of the characteristics of the ocean that can cause hurricanes to grow in intensity or weaken?
7. What does a hurricane look like?
Post-assessment
Hurricane lessonFourth grade
- Choose the correct answer
1. Which season of the year the do hurricanes begin?
• Summer
• Winter
• Fall
• Spring
2. What do you think causes the motion of hurricanes?
• Wind
• Moisture
• warm temperatures
• All of the above
3. Where does hurricane come from?
• West Africa
• South America
• Atlantic ocean
• Caribbean
4. Which states do Hurricanes move over in America?
• Illinois New York
• Georgia, Mississippi
• Florida, Louisiana
- Which of the following statements is (√) or (×)
1. Each hurricane usually lasts for over a week, moving 10-20 miles per hour over the open ocean ( ).
2. Hurricane season start from June 1 to November 30 ( ).
3. Warm waters and weak winds may decrease the strength of a hurricane ( ).
4. Many hurricanes cause severe flooding ( ).
Attachment:- Hurricanes-in-America.rar