TEACHER: In science class, we're discussing catastrophic events. Particularly, this student is working on the vocabulary word hurricane. And we're talking about how those catastrophic events affect communities and the landscape.
So for this experiment, we have a device that allows two different switch activations, and the left switch we have labeled with wind and the right switch we've labeled with rain, which are both things that are associated with hurricanes. We set up a model of a community in a plastic tub because this is a little messy experiment. The switch device is hooked up to a power link device, which allows us to attach to appliances.
And so the appliances we've chosen. We've chosen a fan to represent wind, and we've chosen a Waterpik, which squirts water to represent the rain.
So when the student is demonstrating what a hurricane might look like, they're going to add wind and rain and see what it does to this community. We may be videotaping this experiment also to use during part of a classroom presentation for one of our review activities.
In this video, the teacher explains how she is setting up an experiment on hurricanes for student participation.
