Heavy Weather Research Project: 7 days

• Select one of the following listed topics and build a PowerPoint Presentation following the project guidelines set out to get full credit for your project.
• Your project should be a minimum opf 15 slides; including your title slide.
• All sources that you used for information from the internet need to be listed on your last slide with links to the websites you pulled the information from.

• Choose one topic from the following list of topics to do your project on:

  • The Perfect Storm: Nor'easter Halloween Storm of 1991
  • What Causes Hurricanes?
  • Hurricane Katrina and the Flooding of New Orleans
  • Tornadoes and Twisters
  • Lightning and Thunderstorms: electrical phenomena in the atmosphere
  • Blizzard of 78
  • Other topics must be approved by the teacher in advance of starting the project

   

• Project Templet: use this templet to guide you in the creation of your project.
• Title slide
• Introduce your topic: what is your topic about?
• If a specific event: when did this event occur? (Katrina, Perfect Storm, Blizzard 78)
• If a general event (tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms); what time of year do these generally happen?
• In detailed steps: what events led (or lead) to the formation of the severe weather occurance you are discussing?
• What was the aftermath of this event: what type of damage occured?
• Could this event have been predicted better? What warning signs were ignored that should have been taken seriously?
• What steps have been taken to predict this type of severe weather event and to minimize damage and loss of life should it occur again?