Hurricane Strike!

Tuesday, August 1

In the Living Room

The Castillo's living room, with lights on and the Weather Forecast showing on the TV.description

It's 5:00 in the afternoon on Tuesday, August 1st. This is your 3rd day visiting the Castillo family. You're lounging in the living room and decide to check the TV weather forecast for the latest info on the hurricane you heard about yesterday.

After you finish listening to the weather forecast, you turn around and there's the Castillo's dog, Hugo, again. This time he's holding Carla's purse in his mouth! Looks like someone wants to go shopping!

Hugo holding a purse in his mouth.description

When Carla spots him, she laughs and says, "Hugo’s got my purse; you know what that means, Camille!"

Carla holding out some dollar bills in her handdescription

"Here’s some money, could you and your friend run down to the market for me to get some extra emergency food and supplies just in case the hurricane hits us?"

Your next stop is the grocery store to help Camille do the shopping.

After that, Gilbert needs some help preparing the yard and house for a possible hurricane.

In the Office

Now that the shopping is done and the outside of the house is ready, it's a matter of just waiting to see if the storm hits. You decide to head to the office to find something to do.

The Castillo's office.description

It might be a good time to check out the computer to see if there are any updates to the storm track. It also looks like Camille has loaded a new hurricane activity onto the laptop—check it out!

The Castillo's Laptop Computer.description

On the Laptop

As usual, the Storm Track is new for today. The new hurricane activity is called "Aim a Hurricane". Be sure to check them out as you work on today's Worksheet. You can also view the things that were available on previous days.

Stuff to Check Out

  1. Today's Storm Track
  2. Aim a Hurricane

Previous Learning Topics

(To return here, you'll need to click the link in the exercise that returns to the main menu and then choose the link for Tuesday.)

  1. Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
  2. Create-a-cane

Earlier Tracks

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  1. Sunday, July 30
  2. Monday, July 31

Resources

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  1. Print the Worksheet
  2. Print a Track Chart (To print the chart, choose "Landscape" orientation on the Printer properties and set the page margins to the minimum possible on the Page Setup options for your browser.)
  3. Conversion Chart

On to Wednesday

That's all for today at the Castillo home. Now, you can go to the next day, Wednesday, or you can return to the menu page.