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Teach Engineering: Tornado Damage! ActivityTeach Engineering: Tornado Damage! Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Activities & Projects
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Lexile Measures
1120L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Tornado Damage!

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Students will learn about tornadoes, the damage they cause, and how to rate tornadoes. Specifically, students will investigate the Fujita Damage Scale of tornado intensity, and use it to complete a mock engineering analysis of damage caused by a tornado. Lastly, students will learn some basic tornado safety procedures.

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Concepts

engineering, stem, tornadoes

Additional Tags

tornado, tornado damage, tornado intensity, tornado safety, fujita tornado damage scale, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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