Extreme Weather Events
Your child knows how extreme weather works. A hurricane spins up over warm ocean water. A tornado is a violent twisting column of air. Both can do great damage on land.
In curriculum terms
Know about extreme weather events — hurricanes (spinning storms over warm ocean), tornadoes (violent rotating columns of air), floods, droughts, and blizzards — how they form, where they typically occur, and their effects on people and the environment
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Try this together
If your child saw news about a hurricane, could they explain how it forms over warm ocean water, why it spins, and what makes it so destructive when it reaches land?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
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