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Learning Activity: Examine how technologies save lives from storms
RELATEDSPECIAL REPORTCNN STUDENT NEWS(CNN Student News) -- Students will learn how recent technological advances have helped to improve survival rates for those living in hurricane-prone areas. ProcedureHave student groups conduct research to learn how technological advances during the past 15 years have helped protect those living in hurricane-prone areas. Instruct students to focus their research on developments in the areas of advance warning systems, hurricane forecasting, and building materials. After groups deliver formal presentations of their findings, pose the following questions for class discussion: Correlated StandardsPlaces and Regions Standard 7: Knows the physical processes that shape patterns on Earth's surface Level III Grade : 6-8 Benchmark 3. Knows the consequences of a specific physical process operating on Earth's surface (e.g., effects of an extreme weather phenomenon such as a hurricane's impact on a coastal ecosystem, effects of heavy rainfall on hill slopes, effects of the continued movement of Earth's tectonic plates) McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks Technology Standard 3. Understands the relationships among science, technology, society, and the individual Level III Grade : 6-8 Benchmark 4: Knows that technology and science have a reciprocal relationship (e.g., technology drives science, as it provides the means to access outer space and remote locations, collect and treat samples, collect, measure, store, and compute data, and communicate information; science drives technology, as it provides principles for better instrumentation and techniques, and the means to address questions that demand more sophisticated instruments) Benchmark 7: Knows ways technology is used to protect the environment and prevent damage caused by nature (e.g., new building technologies protect cities from earthquakes, bacteria are used in cleaning water) McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks Keywordshurricane, technology, forecasting, warning systems 
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