Extreme Weather

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Extreme Weather

• By Mrs. Slonneger

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Project

• At least six slides
• Title slide (name it the name of your weather
  such as Hurricanes) dont forget to tell us who
  your presentation is by.
• Causes what causes your weather?
• Zones where on earth is your weather found?
• Record Breakers what are worst ever
  occurrences of your extreme weather?
• Conclusion summary statement of your extreme
  weather.
• Sources - cite the sources from which you got
  your information

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Question

• If a science reporter were to interview you about
  the worst weather youve ever witnessed, what
  would you say? What made that weather so
  remarkable?
• Brainstorm a list of other kinds of extreme
  weather. How many examples can you come up with?

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Definition of Weather

• What is the definition of weather?
• The state of the atmosphere with respect to heat
  or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm,
  clearness or cloudiness.

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Choose One Form of Extreme Weather for your
Presentation

• Examples
• Hurricanes/typhoons
• Tornadoes
• Drought
• Blizzard/snow storm

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Meteorologists

• You will now become a crack team of
  meteorologists with special expertise in
  tracking, analyzing, and explaining your chosen
  weather extreme via a PowerPoint presentation.

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Your Mission

• To figure out what makes extreme weather act the
  way it does, find the most awesome examples of
  its power, and then create a PowerPoint
  presentation to explain it all to your
  classmates.
• Ready to take the weather world by storm?

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Keep These Things in Mind

• Keep it short be concise or you will bore your
  audience
• Save your presentation in a new folder under your
  name on your floppy disk or the hard drive of
  your computer name the presentation with your
  name, first and last
• Use special effects only when they will enhance
  your presentation
• Copy graphics (pictures) into your folder before
  inserting them into your PowerPoint presentation