[note from GreenGuy: my two older daughters (Thing1 and Thing2) have taken on summer projects to keep their brains from turning to mush over the school break. Thing2’s summer project is to learn about and simulate a tornado.]
My summer project is on natural disasters. I will do an experiment on one natural disaster…in other words a tornado. I am doing this project because I want to know what harm tornadoes do to living organisms and the environment. I first got interested in natural disasters in third grade when our class did posters on natural disasters.
For my tornado project I will take every day items to represent a tornado. I want to to get 2 big empty plastic soda containers and put them together, top to top. I will put water in one bottle filled almost to the top. I need to make sure the 2 bottles are secured tightly. Then I put the bottles vertically and I’ll shake the bottles until it makes a tornado in the water.
In addition to the tornado experiment above, I will learn many details about tornadoes like
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When tornadoes occur
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Where tornadoes occur
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What happens during a tornado
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What happens to living organisms during a tornado
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What type of storms make tornadoes
