Tornado Safety

Name: ______

Tornado Safety

K
What I already know. / W
What I want to know. / L
What I learned.

Group members’ names: ______

______

Here comes a tornado!

It is a warm spring afternoon. Mom is getting dinner ready for the family. You look out the window at the sky. You see that the sky has turned very dark, it is raining, lighting, and the wind is blowing very hard. You rush into the kitchen where mom is cooking. You tell her that the sky is very dark. She looks outside and turns on the news. You hear that there is a tornado warning. What should you do?

Before the tornado? ______

During the tornado? ______

After the tornado? ______

Name: ______

Tornado Safety

K
What I already know. / W
What I want to know. / L
What I learned.
· Tornados can cause a lot of damage.
· You need to go into a basement or underground shelter when a tornado is around.
· Tornado warning means a tornado has been seen on the ground.
· Tornado watch means the weather outside (dark sky, rain, and wind) could cause a tornado in your area. / · What should I do when there is a tornado watch?
· What should I do when there is a tornado warning?
· Do I have a lot of time to find a safe place to hide from the tornado?
· How do I know if there is going to be a tornado?
· What do I do during a tornado? / · Before a tornado you should have a plan of where to go for safety.
Make sure you know what city you live in. because the will tell you on the news or radio if the tornado is in your city so you can quickly find a safe place.
Make sure you have a safely kit that has food, first aid, water, flash light, and battery operated radio.
Quickly go into a basement or underground shelter is there is a tornado.
· During a tornado go to a basement or underground shelter. Find a place to hide like under a table or piece of furniture. If you live in a mobile home get out. If you are in a car get out. If you are in a car or mobile home find the lowest place outside and lay flat. Stay away from phones, power lines, and damaged areas.
· After a tornado, stay indoors until it is safe to come out. Make sure no one is hurt around you. Watch out for down power lines. Lastly use a flash light to look around in your house.
· Tornados can form very quickly, so you need to get into a safe place fast.
· There could be a tornado in your area if, the sky is dark, it is very windy outside, hot outside and possibly rain and lighting.

Group members’ names: ______

______

Here comes a tornado!

Before the tornado? You should watch the weather outside. Listen to the news to see if your area could have a tornado. Make sure you have a safety plan in case of a tornado in your area. Make sure you have a safety kit with food, flashlight, water and radio.

During the tornado? Inform your family that you need to get to safely. You need to get to a safe place as soon as possible. If you are in a basement you should hide under a table or furniture. Have your safety kit with you. If you are in a mobile home or car you should get out and find the lowest place possible and lay flat.

After the tornado? Wait inside until you are sure that the tornados are gone. Keep listening to the radio. Make sure every is ok and not hurt. Use your flashlight to look around your house. Do not go close to any open or down wires.

Frank Danowski

Jeannie Wilbur

Weather and Climate 311

11-20-08

Serve Weather safely

Presentation

Standard: E.ES.01.24 Describe precautions that should be taken for human safety during serve weather conditions (thunder storms, lighting, tornados, high winds, blizzard, and hurricanes.

Grade : 1st

Lesson title: Serve weather safety precautions.

The Teaching Process

Lesson overview:

After completion of the lesson students will be able to:

- Discuss the safely precautions they should take before a thunderstorm, lighting, tornado, high winds, blizzard, and hurricane.

- Discuss the safely precautions they should take during a thunderstorm, lighting, tornado, high winds, blizzard, and hurricane.

- Discuss the safely precautions they should take after a thunderstorm, lighting, tornado, high winds, blizzard, and hurricane.

List of material:

KWL chart for each student, scenario exercise 1 per group of four, engaging book (Aunt Minnie and the Twister), and Power point presentation.

Phase one: Engage the Learner

We will be reading a book to the class called Aunt Minnie and the Twister. This will engage the students by getting them interested in tornados. The pictures in this book are great and the book is grade level appropriate. The students can relate to the story along with forming new questions about the information in the book.

Phase Two: Explore the Concept

Each student will get a KWL chart. On their own they will fill out the K and the W. They can either do this by drawing pictures or certain words that they know. When they are finished we will go over it as a class. We will write down their thoughts on the board for everyone to see. This allows for all students to be able to participate and learn new things. For each of the serve weather cases we will use a different graphic organizer. Once they are done with this portion we will ask some addition questions to help explore the concept more. Some questions we will ask: How do you feel about a tornado? Have you ever seen a tornado? Do you know any one that has been in a tornado? Do you think you will ever be in a tornado? Do your parents know what to do if they heard a tornado warning siren? Do you have a basement you could go into?

Phase Three: Explain the Concepts and Define the Terms

We have put together a power point presentation. The power point consists of all five of the serve weather topics we are supposed to cover. They discuss the precautions you should take before, during, and after each of them. The slides consists of a lot pictures so the 1st graders do not get bored with the presentation and also so that they understand the concepts better. Students’ are to take notes on the power point. They can either draw their own pictures or write down the notes that we have in the power point.

Phase Four: Elaborate on the concept

After the power point presentation we are going to ask students what questions they have. Also make sure they understand the PowerPoint slides. We will then take time to finish our KWL chart. They will each need to fill in the L portion of the chart, either with pictures or words. Again we will go over this portion when everyone is finished. We will write down everyone’s answers on the board so they can copy them into their notes. We will also have pictures to go along with the main points we hit that are important for them to know before, during, and after a severe weather situation. We will pass out a scenario sheet to groups of four. They will read the scenario, discuss with their partners and write down what they would do before, during and after the tornado. We will walk around the room to make sure everyone understands the scenario and is able to pull what they learned from the power point to answer the questions. After every one is finished we will go over the answers as a class. They will also be turning in the worksheets.

Phase Five: Evaluate Students’ Understanding of the concept.

We will evaluate the students’ knowledge they gained from the presentation by looking over the L part of the KWL chart. Also, we will collect the scenario exercise from each group once they are finished. This will allow us to see how well the students’ actually understand the concept of safety precautions you should take before, during, and after a hurricane. For each of the different severe weather cases we will use a different assessment method.

References:

Prigger, Mary. Aunt Minnie and the Twister. 2002 published by Houghton Mifflin Company New York, New York.

Internet sites:

Wiz Kids Weather:

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/ (no dates given)

http://www.smartsafetysolutions.com/ (no dates given)