Create A Tornado Game
Create A Tornado Game

FREE K-12 standards-aligned STEM

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Quick Look

Grade Level: 5 (3-5)

Time Required: 45 minutes

Expendable Cost/Group: US $0.00

Group Size: 4

Activity Dependency: None

Subject Areas: Earth and Space

Summary

Students learn about tornadoes, the damage they cause, and how to rate tornadoes. Specifically, students investigate the Enhanced Fujita Damage Scale of tornado intensity, and use it to complete a mock engineering analysis of damage caused by a tornado. Additional consideration is given to tornado warning systems and how these systems can be improved to be safer. Lastly, students learn basic tornado safety procedures.

This engineering curriculum aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Engineering Connection

Engineers learn from failures to improve structures for recurring events and natural disasters, such as tornados. Engineers also invent scales or systems to use as measurement tools. For example, engineers use the Enhanced Fujita Damage Scale (EF-Scale) to classify tornadoes based on measured wind speeds and degree of damage to certain types of structures. In order to improve the lives of those in the path of natural disasters, engineers implement a two-pronged approach to safety. First, advanced warning systems are in place to give people more time to react to impending disaster. Also, due to the fact that it is impossible to ensure that people are never in the path of a tornado or hurricane, engineers conduct post-disaster damage analysis in order to improve structures and better safeguard against property damage and injury.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, students should be able to:

Understand that windstorms and tornadoes affect humans by causing property damage and loss of life.
Understand and use the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale of tornado intensity rates.
Understand that engineers develop early-warning systems to give those in the path of tornados additional time to respond and get to safety.
Understand that engineers use damage analysis to develop better procedures and stronger structures to withstand tornadoes.

Educational Standards
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NGSS: Next Generation Science Standards - Science

NGSS Performance Expectation
MS-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects. (Grades 6 - 8) Do you agree with this alignment? Thanks for your feedback!
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This activity focuses on the following Three Dimensional Learning aspects of NGSS:
Science & Engineering Practices	Disciplinary Core Ideas	Crosscutting Concepts
Construct an oral and written argument supported by empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support or refute an explanation or a model for a phenomenon or a solution to a problem. Alignment agreement: Thanks for your feedback!	Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region, combined with an understanding of related geologic forces can help forecast the locations and likelihoods of future events. Alignment agreement: Thanks for your feedback!	Graphs, charts, and images can be used to identify patterns in data. Alignment agreement: Thanks for your feedback! The uses of technologies and any limitations on their use are driven by individual or societal needs, desires, and values; by the findings of scientific research; and by differences in such factors as climate, natural resources, and economic conditions. Thus technology use varies from region to region and over time. Alignment agreement: Thanks for your feedback!

International Technology and Engineering Educators Association - Technology

Structures need to be maintained. (Grades 3 - 5) More Details
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State Standards

Colorado - Science

Analyze and interpret data identifying ways Earth's surface is constantly changing through a variety of processes and forces such as plate tectonics, erosion, deposition, solar influences, climate, and human activity (Grade 5) More Details
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Develop and communicate an evidence based scientific explanation around one or more factors that change Earth's surface (Grade 5) More Details
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Materials List

Paper and pencils

Worksheets and Attachments

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