Natural Hazards-Extreme Weather Event-

What has happened in this picture?

Natural Hazards – Y7Tornado

Lesson Objectives:

1. To find out where tornadoes strike2. Where are the areas most affected?3.How are Tornadoes measured?

Take a look at this video clip..

• On your word document, write down three words to describe a tornado……..

Click on photo for link to YouTube

Twister Fate

Tornados can happen at any place at any time given the right conditions. BUT, there is one country that experiences more tornadoes than any other…..

Map of the USA showing….

If you were a storm chaser…….• Which three states would you definitely visit

during tornado season? Use an online map of your choice to help you.

Why and How?

Over to you……

Complete the cartoon story board using the website here and the outline sheet.

Written Task

Type “Animated Guide tornadoes” into Google and choose the first result – BBC News.

Using your cartoon and the full animation, use Word on your laptop to write an account of how Tornadoes form. Try to include as much geographical vocabulary as possible.

Give your work a suitable title and save the file as Introduction to Tornadoes.

Just imagine……• You are on the school yard watching a game

of football and without warning, this happens!!

Other forms of Tornado…

The Dead Man’s Walking – A Poem

Tranquil blue and billowy white, turns gray and dark, hint of night.Spring showers gone, rocks of ice, things outside will pay the price.Quietness, stillness, sirens sound. Heart racing, to the underground.Gentle breeze, soft and warm, turns violent, cold, funnel form.Electric blue brightens the dark, sounds like the world's being torn apart.Protective walls secure all around, blown to bits, fall to the ground.Chaotic, loud, cover your ears, close your eyes and feel your fears.Eternity, eternity, so long, but so fast, will this day be my last?Then silent, still, is it gone? What if I move, what if I'm wrong?The stench of mud and wet grass, electric sparks and broken glass.It took the trees, it took the homes, it shattered lives and broke some bones.It has no guilt and no remorse, just takes what it wants while on it's course.Listen close, nature's talking, it just might mean the "Dead Man's Walking".

1. What sort of words / language is used in this poem?

2. What types of feelings is it wanting to create?

The Dead Man’s Walking – A Poem

Tranquil blue and billowy white, turns gray and dark, hint of night.Spring showers gone, rocks of ice, things outside will pay the price.Quietness, stillness, sirens sound. Heart racing, to the underground.Gentle breeze, soft and warm, turns violent, cold, funnel form.Electric blue brightens the dark, sounds like the world's being torn apart.Protective walls secure all around, blown to bits, fall to the ground.Chaotic, loud, cover your ears, close your eyes and feel your fears.Eternity, eternity, so long, but so fast, will this day be my last?Then silent, still, is it gone? What if I move, what if I'm wrong?The stench of mud and wet grass, electric sparks and broken glass.It took the trees, it took the homes, it shattered lives and broke some bones.It has no guilt and no remorse, just takes what it wants while on it's course.Listen close, nature's talking, it just might mean the "Dead Man's Walking".

How can we categorise Tornadoes?

• Using the same tornado animated guide on the BBC website – look at slide 9.

• What is the name of the scale?• Click on each level of strength to view an

animation of damage caused by F1-F5 tornadoes. • Use the internet to research the tornado scale.

Create a factsheet to show each level of strength and add a photo to show typical damage.

Humans v Tornadoes…….

Toulouse Tornadoes

Extension Task

• Type “World tornadoes and agricultural areas” into Google images and copy and paste the first picture.

• Underneath, comment on the relationship between location of tornadoes and farming, and therefore populated areas.

• Why do people and their lives come into contact with Tornadoes?

People v Twisters

• So, we have found out that people and tornadoes live (and die) side by side.

• What can people do in the high risk areas to minimise the risk of loss to life and property?

• Conduct some research and produce a factsheet to be posted to every resident in Tornado Alley outlining what measures they should put in place to plan and prepare for a Tornado strike.

• Google seach term ‘prepare for tornado’