Overview
Enroll in the following courses before starting the lesson plan:-
- Business Applications of Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Interval Estimation
- Inferential Statistics
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Hurricane Analysis
This lesson plan allows your students to perform statistical analysis and interpretation of data (specifically, analyzing trends and determining uncertainty) by using hurricane data records.
Hurricane Katrina
In the activity, students will explore possible trends in hurricane intensity and number over the past 40 years, and will investigate a possible link between climate change and hurricane strength.
Thus, the use of this lesson plan allows you to integrate the teaching of a climate science topic with a core topic in Statistics, Geography, or Earth Sciences.
Grade Level: Undergraduate
Discipline: Statistics, Geography, Earth Sciences
Topics:
- Statistics: Inferential Statistics, Trend Analysis, Uncertainty, Confidence Interval, Student’s t-Distribution
- Geography, Earth Sciences : Disasters, Hazards, Hurricanes, Storms, Oceanography, Trends in Hurricane Intensity
Climate Topic: Disasters and Hazards
Location: Global (data in the activity is for the Atlantic Ocean)
Languages: English
Learning Outcomes
The tools in this lesson plan will enable students to:
- calculate trends in data
- determine uncertainty and evaluate confidence in trends using Student's t-distribution
- discuss the possible impacts of climate change on the intensity and number of hurricanes