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The lesson plan summarizes a lesson on tornadoes for 8th grade students. It includes an activity where students will create a model tornado in a jar to demonstrate tornado formation. The lesson aims to teach students about tornado safety and identification. Formative assessment will include a labeled diagram of a tornado. The lesson aligns with state standards on identifying weather events like tornadoes.

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Case Study 2 Lesson Plan

The lesson plan summarizes a lesson on tornadoes for 8th grade students. It includes an activity where students will create a model tornado in a jar to demonstrate tornado formation. The lesson aims to teach students about tornado safety and identification. Formative assessment will include a labeled diagram of a tornado. The lesson aligns with state standards on identifying weather events like tornadoes.

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Ashley Mills

Kaitlyn Speckman
Kelly Liu

Case 2 Lesson Plan


Overview of Lesson
We will be asking the students to recount on their prior knowledge of tornadoes.
We will be showing the students how tornadoes form as well as place they can go to be
safe in the event of a tornado. They will be creating a small model tornado in a jar to gain
an understanding of the movement of tornadoes. They will be taking a small quiz at the
end of the lesson to show their understanding about tornadoes.

Description of Learners and the Learning Environment

Tecumseh Middle School


Lafayette, IN
Average number of students per class: 20
8th grade
Students: often of lower socioeconomic status.

Learning Objectives

Given a diagram of a tornado, the students will be able to label the different parts
in 10 to 15 minutes.
In the case of a tornado, the students will know how to properly take cover.

Standards

8.2.5 Describe the conditions that cause indiana weather and weather-related
events such as tornadoes, lake effect snow, blizzards, thunderstorms and flooding.

Required Materials

Glass jar
Water
Dish Soap
PowerPoint
Tornado diagrams to serve as assessment

Procedures

Start off with asking the students what they know about tornadoes. Ask if they
have ever seen or know of some of the major tornadoes. Attempt to get a baseline
of what the students already know.
Play a video of how a tornado is formed (Youtube Video)
After video, have a class discussion on what they learned and saw from the video.
Teach the students more characteristics about tornadoes with the use of the
created powerpoint.
Also mention that since it is tornado season, this is the perfect time to discuss
tornados. Being that it is tornado season, it is also important to remind the
students where they can go to be safe in the event of a tornado.
Then we will have the students get up and demonstrate how to take cover in the
case of a tornado. We will have the mentor students demonstrate the proper
technique first and then have the kids follow suit. By doing this we hope the
students will be able to fully understand what to do.
After this we will move into our activity.
We will have the students break up into small groups with a mentor in each group.
We will give each mentor a tub with all of the materials necessary for the activity.
The activity will be making a tornado out of household objects. During the
activity they can see the up-close movement of a tornado. While this activity may
seem a little elementary, everyone loves playing with a tornado in a bottle!
We will have the mentor give instruction in the following way during the activity:
o One student will fill the jar almost full with water
o The next student will add just a small drop of dishsoap
o The other students can choose from the craft items to add debris to the
tornado. (glitter, string, etc)
Finishing up the lesson, we will give the students a diagram to label the different
characteristics of a tornado.

Assessment

Students will take the information that was learned during this lesson and
correctly label a diagram of a tornado.

Journals and Summaries


Streitwieser, D., & Light, G. (2010). When Undergraduates teach undergraduates:
Conceptions
of and approaches to teaching in a peer led team learning
intervention in the STEM
disciplines: Result of a two year study.
International Journal of Teaching & Learning in
Higher Education. 22 (3),
346-356
From this article, it stated that the students performed well in the STEM courses
and overall enjoy the experience they got out of it. Over the course of two years, a group
of students were studied and observed at the beginning and end of the school year on how
their stem courses were going. In the article it talked about how when the students felt

uncomfortable in the classroom because of not knowing people that they would do
activities to make it more comfortable. We used this strategy by having the students get
up during the class and actually demonstrate what a tornado looks like. By this the
student will have to collaborate with their students and this could lead to new friendships
being built and them getting more comfortable around their peers.

Zakaria, F. (n.d.). Fareed Zakaria: America's obsession with STEM education dangerous.
Retrieved March 30, 2015, from
http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/othervoices/fareed-zakaria-america-sobsession-with-stem-education-dangerous/article_40bcdb20-dbbb-5eed-8fb8076d2c8e9122.html
No matter how strong your math and science skills are, you still need to know how
to learn, think and even write. (Zakaria). This article was interesting because he discusses
how it is not only important to be skilled in math and science, but it is also of great
importance to maintain a certain level of creativity as well as critical thinking. We used this
point with our activity. The hands on of creating the tornado as well as the visual
representation.

Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWh9jV_1ac (Youtube Video)

Video Submission Link


https://youtu.be/bhfn-dDo1XQ

Quiz
Name________________
Date__________________
Label the diagram below with the words below.
Cold downdraft

Warm UpDraft

Mesocyclone

________________________________________________________________________
_________________

________________________________________________________________________
_________________

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