Meteorology

Tornado Box (How to build your own classroom tornado on the cheap.)

Walk-along Gliders (Instructional Video, Pattern) (Use air to keep a paper spinner suspended.)

Seeing Air Movement (Demo or Station Lab) (Just because you can't see air doesn't mean it isn't there.)

Convection Boxes (Demo or Station Lab) (Homemade set up from cardboard and florescent light covers to see how convection happens in gasses.)

Gasses have Density (Demo or Station Lab) (Bubbles and CO₂)

Direct vs Indirect Radiation (Getting to the real cause for temperature differences from equator to Pole.)

• Direct vs Indirect Radiation: Seasons Extension (Understanding misconceptions about seasons)

Layers of the Atmosphere (Using a temperature graph to determine the layers of the atmosphere.)

Make a Cloud in a Bottle (Only need water, a little smoke from a match, and the pressure from students squeezing a bottle.)

• Cloud Formation Extension

Hurricane Tracking (I used this after we learn about wind, Coriolis Effect, and cloud formation: the questions are geared to tying these concepts to Hurricanes.)