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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore how tornadoes are the most violent storms on earth. Raging at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour, their awesome winds can flip cars through the air like leaves, snap trees like matchsticks, and reduce entire towns to kindling. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students research tornadoes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students simulate a tornado by using swirling water in connected bottles. They discuss what causes the vortex to be started in a real tornado. Full Review »
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- 6th - 7th
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Students discover the organization that needs to occur in order for a tornado vortex to form by examining a tornado in a bottle toy. Students use stopwatches to time how long it takes for the water in the upper bottle to completely move down to the lower bottle during three trials. Students calculate averages and graph their data. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research tornadoes and hurricanes by exploring Internet Web Sites, reading trade books, and watching high-interest videos about wild weather. They record their information on bubble diagrams. They compare and contrast the information collected for tornadoes and hurricanes. They create a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences in formation, geographic locations, forecasting, preparedness, composition, and aftermath. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore and identify what a tornado looks like and identifies at least one trait or descriptive word about tornado's utilizing a K-W-L chart. They experience a machine called Mr. Twister and summarize what it creates in a matter of seconds. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore tornadoes. They discuss how tornadoes are formed, where they can occur and how they affect the people and environment of a region. Students view clips of tornadoes using YouTube. They discuss severe weather safety and what to do in an emergency. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students research how many tornado's occurred in different Indiana counties and then use a color code to represent how many were in each county. They also record/color the total number of people killed, injuries and the "F scale" of the specific tornado. This site doesn't contain a map or the information needed to complete the rubric, but the rubric is good if you used your own map and found your own tornado statistic information to use. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students complete an interactive web page to learn about tornadoes. They also see a map about Tornado Alley, diagrams to help them understand how a tornado happens, and a video of a real tornado. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students participate in a cross curricular project on tornadoes. They work on and complete this project in their English, science and technology classes as well as utilizing the library. They have a variety of preselected websites to choose from for their projects. Full Review »
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