Objectives:

1. Students will compare and contrast the three major storm types: tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms.
2. Students will learn to measure wind speed using various instruments
3. Students will learn vocabulary related to wind speed
4. Students will learn what causes strong winds that create tornadoes, hurricanes and thunderstorms.

Language
• use a KWL chart for storms:tornadoes, hurricanes, & thunderstorms
• KWL for tornadoes using Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll by Branley
• make a TV vocabulary screen to illustrate storms
• use a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast 3 storms
• write about most memorable storm experience

Science
• create a model illustrating elements of a thunderstorm over land resulting in a tornado
• make a twister in a jar
• demonstrate the eye of the storm by stirring water and dangling a paper clip in a bowl
• make lightning by rubbing feet on a carpet and touching a partner
• make and learn to use an anemometer
• play a matching game to become familiar with the Beaufort Wind Scale
Social Studies
• map the wind direction each day
• use map skills to determine location of dangerous storms in the US & NC

Math
• make graphs to determine the most frequently occurring wind direction in our area
• using a grid, graph storms each child has experienced

Art
• make a wind chime from nails or seashells
• make pinwheels to see the effects of wind speed
• make a mobile sequencing steps to a thunderstorm

Health
• discuss safety related to lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes
• discuss positive and negative effects of wind

Guidance
• read Thunder Cake by Polacco and discuss feelings related to strong wind storms

PE
• play a wind relay game by blowing cups on a string across the room