Weather and Natural Disasters
Welcome to the greatest show on Earth. Propelled by intense heat simmering beneath the crust, Earth’s surface is dramatically reshaping itself in an endless, slow-motion ballet called plate tectonics. Deep inside Earth, there are many layers and students learn about each one in this lesson as well as how volcanos produce a lot more than just lava, and come in more shapes than simply a cone. They'll visit Pompeii and then make a volcano of their own (and erupt it of course). Finally, they'll become experts in the science of stratigraphy as they determine once and for all which came first, the crack or the rock?
A tornado isn't likely to sweep down and take you to Munchkinland, as it did to Dorothy in Frank L Baum’s, The Wizard of Oz but this lesson will take students into the center of the storm and down into the heart of tornado alley. They'll learn about the Fujita scale and the recipe for the perfect storm, grow their own tornado in a bottle, and become engineers as the endeavor to construct a tornado-proof house. They'll also create terrific twisting tornado art and see what they know with a review game that just might blow them away.