Final project due to Mr.

Fischer by Friday, Feb 12th

Name _______________________________________________

Quarter 3 :Severe Weather

Project
Since the weather unit is a very important unit in Earth Science and also a very long
unit, we do not get a lot of extra class time to discuss severe weather events. Because of
this, you will be doing a project that focuses on severe weather.
This project will require you to choose up to 2 other people (but NO more). With
them, you will research a chosen severe weather event and then create a presentation of
some sort. This will not be presented to the class but must be something that Mr. Fischer
can view. Like a Prezi, Glogster presentation, or a paper with a poster board.
You may work with at least 1 other person. YOU MAY DO THE PROJECT
ALONE under any circumstances. That being said, make sure you choose your partners
wisely!!
It is NOT REQUIRED that you spend out-of-class time to work on this project, just
like with all your projects. I will take the class down to the library on MONDAY AND
TUESDAY. You will be expected to spend the entire class period in the library
researching and gathering information on your chosen topic and ONLY on your chosen
topic. You WILL NOT do any other school work or non-school work during that time.
TOPICS: You choose only ONE storm under ONLY one category. For example, you
only research and present the Blizzard of 77. You do not do one storm from each of
the 3 categories.
Severe Tornado Outbreaks:
1. The Super Outbreak April 3-4, 1974
2. The Enigma Outbreak February 19-20, 1884
3. The Super Tuesday Outbreak February 5-6, 2008
4. The Northern Illinois Outbreak April 21, 1967
5. April 6-8, 2006 Tornado Outbreak
Famous Hurricanes:
1. Hurricane Andrew
2. Hurricane Hugo
3. Hurricane Camille

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4. Galveston Hurricane of 1900
5. Hurricane Katrina
Famous Winter Storms:
1. Blizzard of 77 (Western New York)
2. Buffalo Snow Storm of 2001 December 26-27, 2001
3. Buffalo Snow Storm 2000 November 30, 2000
4. Blizzard of 93 March 12-13, 1993
5. Surprise October Storm (October 12-13, 2006)

YOU MUST HAVE YOUR PARTNER (OR NO PARTNER) AND YOUR

TOPIC CHOSEN BY TODAY.

ONLY 2 GROUPS MAY DO THE SAME SEVERE STORM! IT IS FIRST

COME, FIRST SERVE ON THE TOPICS! AND ONCE YOUVE
COMITTED TO A TOPIC YOU MAY NOT CHANGE IT.

THIS PROJECT MUST INCLUDE ALL OF THE FOLLOWING

INFORMATION: IN OTHER WORDS THIS IS ALL REQUIRED!
1. Specific information on the storm itself:
a. Name of storm(s)
b. Date(s) and time(s)
c. Location(s)
d. Who did it affect? In other words, how large was the population that was
affected by it.
e. Did anyone die, and if so, how many?
f. If there were a lot of injuries what were they? What was the most
common one?
g. What type of damage did it do?
h. What was the approximate cost of the damage?
i. MUST include a few preventative measures that were actually used or
should have been used. Preventative measures are things that help prevent
damage, injuries, or loss of life.
j. MUST include some general information about your type of storm. In
other words, general information about tornadoes, hurricanes, or
blizzards/winter storms. Background information on how your type of

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storm begins and/or strengthens and the actual meteorology behind this
type of storm.
k. *** If you choose a hurricane, you MUST include information on the
Saffir-Simpson scale and if you choose a tornado, you MUST include
information on the Fujita scale. What are they, what do they measure?

2. Information on specific weather conditions about the storm (any and all
weather information you can find about the storm)
a. What was the weather like a few days leading up to the storm(s)?
b. What was the weather like during the actual storm(s)?
c. What was the weather like a few days after the storm?
d. Was there a specific type of weather or front that caused the storm?
3. A summary/description
a. This should be a brief, yet detailed and clear summary or conclusion of the
storm you chose and conclusion of your presentation. This should go at
the very end of the presentation.
4. References in MLA format
a. Must TYPE your references, in MLA format, on separate paper and hand
this paper to Mr. Fischer
b. Easybib.com

How Should I Present This?

You may choose to submit all this information to Mr. Fischer in ONE of the
following ways:
o PowerPoint/Prezi make sure its interesting and creative and
includes pictures, or videos, or links.
o Glogster this is an online digital poster board so-to-speak. If you
know how to use it, great. IN ADDITION to this you would need to
submit a written paper of some sort with the rest of the information
that is required.
o Poster Board make your own, fun, creative, colorful poster board to
hand in. IN ADDITION to this you must have a written paper of some
sort with the rest of the information that is required.

PLEASE NOTE no matter which option you choose, you MUST hand
in a typed, MLA format works cited/references sheet!!!

Final project due to Mr. Fischer by Friday, March 20th

Final project due to Mr. Fischer by Friday, Feb 12th

Final project due to Mr. Fischer by Friday, March 20th

Final project due to Mr. Fischer by Friday, March 20th