The end of the year ....

As your 7th grade year comes to a close, what have you enjoyed this year?  What was your favorite thing we did in science?  What do you wish we could have covered?  What would you do different?

Endeavour in sppace

Check out the following link describing some damage that has been spotted on shuttle Endeavour.

Endeavour

How would you feel about re-entry if you were on the shuttle?  Why is re-entry so dangerous?

Kansas Tornado

As the spring storm season continues to reek havoc, Kansas became the latest victim.  Check out the following link and read and watch about the destruction that occurred Saturday evening in Kansas.

Kansas tornado

Leave a post about your thoughts.  What would you do if that would happen here.

Create a weather map

Go to the following link.  Under the words weather activities, click in the green area where it says 'click here to start'.
Create a weather map based upon the forecast!

weather map

Clouds

We learned about the various types of clouds this past week and the weather associated with each.
Check out the following link and complete the activity matching the cloud types and their names.

Cloud types

The rising Mississippi

The water continues to rise in the lower Mississippi, go to the following link and see what is happening and what the thoughts are down south.

The rising Mississippi

What did you learn?

Tornados

We have talked quite a bit about tornadoes this year.  With all of the destruction that occurred down south a few weeks ago lets take a look at what a tornado actually is.  Check out the following link.

Tornado

Leave a post telling me ........
What is a tornado? How do tornadoes form?  How do tornadoes stop?  What is a supercell thunderstorm?  What is a mesocyclone?  What is a wall cloud?  What are the levels on the fujita tornado scale of intensity?  What happens at the different levels?