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 * ===‍Title of Project: Weather Database===
 * ===‍‍‍Grade Level and/or Subject Area: 8th Grade/ Computer===
 * ===‍‍‍Curriculum Framing Quesitons:===

Essential Question:
Why care about forecasting?

Unit Questions:
Were there any locations that got hit by a disaster more than others? Why does disaster occur? What is the importance of preparation for disasters?

Seeing Reason Question:
What are the causes and effects of a hurricane?

Content Questions: 
When you compare NC //hurricanes// during the past century, which //hurricane// was the most damaging of them all?

Who really cares?

//Visual Ranking// Prompt:
How does where you live determine choices you make?

List the hurricanes in order from the most damaging to the lease damaging.

Visual Ranking


 * What damage did the hurricane cause—from the most damaging to least damaging?
 * clean-up cost for each - from least expensive to most expensive
 * number of disasters in each county - most to least
 * names of hurricanes - pre/post of what order students would put them in to the actual strength of disaster.
 * fatalities from each - rank in order

Seeing Reason
 * What are the causes and effects of damage to the hurricane environments?
 * What impact can disasters have on a community?

Showing Evidence
 * Database with a list of names, dates, causes & effects.
 * List concerns you have using Showing Evidence in your unit