Tornado! You are going to make your own tornado with a partner today. Only one of you is able to take home your model, so choose a partner where you can agree who will take home the model.

Materials: A different person from each table should pick up the following: Glitter Beads A bottle for every two people A funnel

In your science notebook…. Title your page and table of contents: MAKING A TORNADO Write AND answer the following questions before you begin the lab: 1. What is a tornado? 2. When does a tornado usually form? 3. What about a tornado makes it so destructive?

Directions: Using your funnel, put a pinch of glitter in your bottle. Pick out fifteen beads to go into your bottle and drop them through the funnel as well. Have one person in your partnership fill your bottle ¾ full with the water fountain in the hallway. You MUST get approval by me BEFORE you leave the classroom.

When you are back from getting water… Raise your hand….Ms. Miller will bring by the soap necessary for the lab! When all ingredients are in the bottle, please put the lid on securely. Have one partner move the bottle in a circular motion possibly holding the neck and lid of the container until the glitter and beads are spinning in the middle of the bottle.

In your notebook….. 4. Write down three observations that you noticed as you spun the bottle. 5. How did the motion of the glitter and beads change as they moved closer to the center of the spiral? 6. What do you think the spinning motion is representative of in your bottle? 7. Think about your model as a tornado. What might the glitter and beads represent? What does their movement tell you about the movement of air within a rotating storm?

What do I do next? Please put your bottle to the side so that it does not distract you the rest of class. You may study your words for your vocabulary quiz tomorrow or read. You may not work on home fun for another class.