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The article offers suggestions for integrating the phenomena of hurricanes into teaching fluid mechanics in high school. It also provides recommendations for using information about hurricanes, particularly Katrina, in a physics class and various ways to modify standard physics problems. Main topics for teaching high school fluid mechanics such as pressure, buoyant force, fluid flow continuity and Bernoulli's equation are also outlined.

The article presents a continuum by which to evaluate an activity's level of inquiry instruction with their students designed and implemented by elementary teachers in the U.S. This four-level continuum includes confirmation, structured, guided, and open which is useful in classifying the levels of inquiry in an activity. In addition, the continuum focuses on how much information such as guiding question, procedure, and expected results is provided to students and how much guidance one will provide as the teacher.