Students will:If time permits, have pairs or groups share their information with their classmates, and then work together to create a larger picture of the types of hurricanes that hit various counties of the coastal United States.
Suggested Graph Questions
Questions for Understanding
- How many total hurricanes struck your assigned county in the last century?
- During which decade did the most hurricanes hit the county?
- How many of those hurricanes were category 1-2?
- How many hurricanes were category 3-5?
- How many hurricanes were direct strikes vs. indirect strikes?
- What is the difference between direct and indirect strikes?
- How many of the hurricanes that struck your county moved from water to land (Conventional Landfall Storm)?
- What was the population of your county as of 2000?
- When did a hurricane last hit your county? Describe it (direct/indirect/ category?/conventional or exiting).
- Questions for Analysis/Inference
- Given all the information on the graph, which hurricane in your assigned county (give the year) was most damaging? Consider population, media, as well as hurricane data.
- Using the information on the graph, describe the typical hurricane that hits your county (direct/indirect, conventional/exiting, category 1-2 or 3-5).
- Considering the hurricane data on the graph, would you choose to live in that county? If you did live there, what precautions would you take (construction,
- Interpret data displayed in a graph
- Make inferences based on graphical data
- Work efficiently with a partner or team.
