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Mission 3 - Lesson 4: Tornado Formation
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Primary: Lesson Plan
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Operation
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Monster Storms
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Mission:
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Mission 3: The Chase
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Science
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5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Keywords
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lesson plans, teacher resources
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Duration
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00:00:00 (HH:MM:SS)
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Audience
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Teachers
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Created On
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9/5/2007
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From: Monster Storms Mission 3: The Chase |
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Mission 3 - Lesson 4: Tornado Formation Understand the formation of tornadoes. Appreciate the relationship between thunderstorms and tornado formation. Learn about Tim’s tornado atmospheric data probe. Understand the Fujita and EF-Scale and apply them to inferring tornado wind speeds. |
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Time required: 45 minutes
- Obtain the Mission 3 Briefing Video and test your playback system to ensure an uncompromised viewing experience.
- Locate the transparency, Frontal Thunderstorm, used in lesson 2
- Create a transparency of the Tornadic Thunderstorm from the master that appears in the online Mission 3 Teacher Resources.
- Make sure all Internet connections are functional and access to the suggested URLs is not blocked by the local server.
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All the resources you'll need to teach Mission 3. |
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Join Tim Samaras, a scientist and storm chaser, as he uses his specially-equipped truck to gather data from a forming tornado. Learn how he uses special probes to measure wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure, and relative humidity within the tornado while making video recordings of the tornado passing over the probe. |
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- Have student compare and contrast the transparencies that illustrate frontal and tornadic thunderstorms.
- Discuss the operation of the Tornado Atmospheric Data Probe.
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This gallery shows the damage that can be caused by hurricanes. |
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- Discuss the use of a cutaway image to reveal hidden interiors. Then, have students create a blueprint that illustrates the interior of the Tornado Atmospheric Data Probe based upon the cutaway illustrated on page 56. Each component of the probe should be identified and its role described.
- Have student teams create a series of hand drawn or computer generated images that illustrates the damage associated with each category of the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
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For homework, have students complete the Critical Thinking activity that addresses the Enhanced Fujita Scale. For an extension, access the images from the online Tornado Damage Gallery. Have student teams use these images to create a PowerPoint presentation that illustrates the progressive categories of the EF-Scale. |
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