XIP 5050 -- Mattie M. Kelly Summer Institute -- Hurricanes 6 contact hrs (Offered as needed) Workshop for high school science teachers; counts for continuing education with the DOE, which the Okaloosa school board will arrange. Attendees will be able to describe and teach to their own students the following: What a hurricane is and how it forms, moves and intensifies; What the environmental and economical impacts are on Fla.; What the possible effects of global climate change are on hurricane frequency and intensity; How scientists study hurricanes (i.e., hurricane hunters, numerical models, satellites and radars, etc.); How to forecast and track a hurricane. In addition, attendees will have discussed and practiced the scientific process and identifying the independent variable as appropriate for the topic. Mattie M. Kelly Summer Institute for Teachers, sponsored and funded by the Mattie M. Kelly Cultural and Environmental Institute.