Teacher Notes
Weatherproof Your Home (20-30 minutes) > Print/View All Notes
This activity contains the Weatherproofing Tool. Before looking at the tool as a group, discuss the term weatherproofing to make sure students understand it means adding or changing materials in and around your home to help protect it against weather.
Next, assist students as they navigate the tool and work as a team. Students may take turns inputting information into the tool if the whole team is working at one computer station, or choose one person in the team to input information into the tool as other students dictate. Alternatively, students may work at individual computers, inputting the information that they decided upon as a team.
Some students may wonder why they cannot choose a tornado as a severe weather event in the tool. Let them know that unless a home is passed over directly by a tornado, it may experience strong winds and rain similar to a hurricane.
Once students have completed the tool, instruct them to move on to the next page of the website.
Answer key for appropriate weatherproofing materials:
|
οΎ |
Hurricane |
Blizzard |
Excessive Rain |
Heat Wave |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Mobile Home |
Tie and anchor systems
|
Insulation
|
Caulk
|
Insulation
|
|
Townhome |
Wooden boards
|
Insulation
|
Caulk
|
Insulation
|
|
Single-family home |
Wooden boards
|
Insulation
|
Caulk
|
Insulation
|
|
Apartment Building |
Wooden boards
|
Insulation
|
Caulk
|
Insulation
|
Standards Addressed:
3-ESS3-1,
3.D.1.a,
MTLSS 3.B.1
