This project was really fun and took a long time and took a lot of work! First Mrs. Rago told us our groups. My group was Me, Elizabeth and Madeline, we were the tornado group. Then Mrs. Rago gave me books about my topic and we started researching about tornadoes. That part took about a week. After that we got to choose what we wanted to study about for our topic. I choose Causes. Elizabeth choose Effects and Madeline choose Important events, First hand experiences and safety and finally Prevention. Then we went to computer lab and we made a google docs and I wrote a paragraph (Narrative) about Causes of Tornadoes. Writing the narrative took 2 days. Some people called the Paragraph a Brain Pump. Once we finished that we took the important parts of the narrative and put them in our script. I had 2 slides to talk which were each 15 seconds. Then me and my group timed our slides to make sure our slides were 15 seconds. Mrs. Rago told us that we also had to make an Introduction and Conclusion. I did the Intro and Elizabeth did the conclusion and Madeline didn’t do that because she is doing 4 slides and me and Elizabeth had 2 slides until we each got the extra slide.
Here is my brain dump and Script:
Brain dump
Causes: For a tornado to form it needs warm moist air from a warm climate, like the Gulf of Mexico, and cold dry air from somewhere like Canada. When they meet they make the atmosphere unstable. Then when the wind changes direction and gets faster and higher it creates spinning that is invisible, when that air rises makes the spinning go up and down.
Tornadoes often start by an unusually thunderstorm. The most common thunderstorm to make a tornado is a supercell thunderstorm. (That is the highest thunderstorm there is.) Did you know that some tornadoes are so complex that scientists still don’t understand tornadoes,but even though they might not know a lot about them the more they study them, the more we will be safe. You know what scientists also don’t know? How tornadoes die out. The only continent that doesn’t get tornadoes is Antarctica. Some places besides North America get a lot of tornadoes like Northern Europe, Western Asia, Bangladesh, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In the middle of the United States there are really strong tornadoes so they call it tornado alley. Tornadoes often happen in the summer because of all the warm air.
Script
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Education of Tornadoes is very important in understanding strong weather storms. They’re giant spiraling wind funnels; Also known as Twisters. Learning about creation process, destructive effects as well as safety measures will increase your chance of survival. |
| 2 Causes (Allie) |
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For a tornado to form it needs warm moist air from a warm climate, like the Gulf of Mexico, and cold dry air from somewhere like Canada. When they meet they make the atmosphere unstable. Then when the wind changes direction and gets faster and higher it creates spinning that is invisible, when that air rises it makes
the spinning go up and down. |
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| 3 Causes (Allie) |
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The most common thunderstorm to make a tornado is a supercell thunderstorm. A supercell thunderstorm is the strongest and most dangerous type of thunderstorm. Supercells cause damaging winds, large hail, and strong and violent tornadoes.
When a supercell forms a tornado it is very dangerous and very scary. |
After we made a Google Slide and started making our Ignite side show. I have the first 3 slides and after that Elizabeth had 2 slides then Madeline had her 4 slides and then Elizabeth had the last side. IN each slide we were only allowed to put 1 picture or max of 6 words. Then we had to memorize our scripts and then we had a lot of practices. After we finished memorizing our scripts Mr.Casal made one big slide show of all the groups.
Here is My groups Presentation:
