tornado project
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Exploring Knowledge Creatively
During our preparations for Valentine’s Day, we have also begun our class project for the semester with some very basic discussion of tornadoes. The boys are fascinated, and when I was finally able to get out our tornado tube they dropped everything and worked with it for an entire afternoon. This was some of the most authentic learning I have seen in months, and at that moment I knew that we had found that coveted project topic They have a pretty good understanding of the basics, seeing as we get some pretty bad storms in the summer months, and most of my students were affected in some way by a…