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Student Activities Throughout the project, students engage in multidisciplinary and multimedia activities 
Students discuss hurricane preparedness, using Publix's and Miami Herald's Hurricane Guide.
They track hurricanes in real time through whole class interaction, projecting future potential hurricane paths.
- Students create weather journals.
- They design and use weather instruments: wind vane, anemometer, barometer, and sky windows.
- Students measure weather conditions using student made instruments and manufactured instruments.
- Students virtually fly with a hurricane hunter during his assignment.
- A speaker from CSTARS (Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing), the University of Miami’s newest facility that conducts research with remotely sensed data received from earth-orbiting satellite systems, discusses hurricanes and weather with our students. CSTARS is a state-of-the-art real-time satellite reception and analysis facility in southern Miami-Dade that provides data for environmental monitoring of the Equatorial Atlantic region, northern South America, Central America, the Caribbean Basin, Gulf of Mexico, and the Southeastern US.
- Students create a brochure to share with school-wide classmates.
- They create Powerpoint presentations to deliver information during the project, and extend the acquired skills to other science areas.
- Students research hurricane history and compare, analyze and evaluate structure among hurricanes that have had the most impact.
- Students create a Powerpoint presentation about hurricane awareness and preparedness to share with the rest of the school.
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