tornado image gallery: teaching tornados through images

Tornado Image Gallery(and classroom activities)

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Teacher Notes: These tornado images can be incorporated in the classroom in multiple ways different ways:

Consider having students:- Write down adjectives for each image- Compare and contrast different images - Sort through the images and group them based on size,

shape, appearance, formation stage, estimate of Enhanced Fujita Scale, etc. (For more of a challenge, give students the images and let the them determine their own criteria for categorizing images).

Possible extension: There are a three tornado formation sequences in this collection of images that can be used to enhance student learning:

- Give an entire tornado formation sequence to students and have them identify the order of how the tornado formed.

- Have students write down adjectives for each image and then compare/contrast adjectives as the tornado formed

First edition of the “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

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Credit: National Weather Service

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Credit: NOAA

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