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What am I?

Explore the power and destructiveness of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes or typhoons. Learn about their formation, names, and impact through hands-on activities and group collaboration.

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What am I?

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  1. What am I? Hold up your whiteboard with your guess • You’ll know I’m coming up to a week before I arrive • I’m powered by the sun • I have many names, but you’ve probably never met me • Land is the only thing that can stop me • I can destroy most things • I’m a killer; I can crush you, drown you, and make you sick • I can be hundreds of miles across • I can be more powerful than a nuclear bomb • …

  2. I’m a Tropical Cyclone (also known as a typhoon or hurricane) Hurricane Maria, 2017. About 900 miles across.

  3. Tropical cyclones

  4. Word cloud Give me synonyms and descriptive words Tropical Steamy, hot, equatorial, sweaty, sticky, close. Cyclone Twister, whirlwind, storm, typhoon, hurricane.

  5. What’s a tropical cyclone like? What kind of storm is a tropical cyclone? • Organise yourselves into groups • Each person in each group has to complete their own sheet • One person at a time can come and read the information I have, then must get back to the group and share it. • I’ll give you a warning 2 turns before your time is up. • If you don’t finish, it’s extra homework, so concentrate!

  6. What’s a tropical cyclone like? What kind of storm is a tropical cyclone? Task - complete your infographic poster

  7. What did you call me?! How we name tropical cyclones (in 2 minutes)

  8. What did you call me?! • Every tropical cyclone has a name. • For many storms a list of names is written every year from A to Z. • The names are used in alphabetical order as storms happen. Hurricane names for 2019 include Barry, Imedla and Rebekah. Typhoon names include Nari, Lekima and Faxai. • If a storm is kills or hurts a lot of people its name is never used again (e.g. Katrina, Harvey)

  9. What did you call me?! • A tropical cyclone is called a hurricane if it forms in the Atlantic or north-east Pacific. • In the north-west Pacific it would be called a 'typhoon’, • Everywhere else it would simply be called a 'cyclone’.

  10. What did you call me?! To make things easier to remember, we’ve made a summary sheet with everything on it. Unfortunately, due to a mix-up each of your handouts is missing some information.

  11. What did you call me?! Go GoGo! Task: Complete your summary sheet • Between all of you, I’m sure you have all the answers! • You need to work together to get them all on your own sheet. • Find people with your missing information and swap info. • Ready? The clock is ticking!

  12. What did you call me?! Time’s up! How did we do?

  13. Checking in True? Or false? • 1-10 in the back of your books • 5 seconds thinking time per question

  14. True or false? 1/10 If a storm isn’t spinning, it can’t be a tropical cyclone

  15. True or false? 2/10 A tropical cyclone will always have a name

  16. True or false? 3/10 A tropical cyclone can form over land

  17. True or false? 4/10 The name for hot air rising is ‘convection’.

  18. True or false? 5/10 A tropical cyclone will have winds of at least 74mph.

  19. True or false? 6/10 A tropical cyclone can only form over water that is 26oC or warmer

  20. True or false? 7/10 A tropical cyclone would spin clockwise in the North Atlantic

  21. True or false? 8/10 A tropical cyclone could form in the Arctic Ocean

  22. True or false? 9/10 A tropical cyclone near Japan would be called a hurricane.

  23. True or false? 10/10 Tropical cyclones can happen in any month of the year

  24. How did you do? Q1,2,4,5,10 – True Q3,7,8,9 - False <5 The leaves barely rustle 6-8 Getting pretty breezy 9+ Blown away!

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