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1.1 Information Problem
-what information do we have to find? -why do we need to gather information? -what sites can we trust? -how do we gather information? **1.2 Information Needed - 10 Questions**

1-how is a tornado different from a hurricane? 2-why do tornadoes occur? 3-why do less tornadoes happen near the coast? 4-why do tornadoes spin? 5-how are tornadoes good to take pictures of? 6-how do the mere winds of a tornado do damage? 7-why are tornadoes stronger but smaller than hurricanes? 8-why do tornadoes suck up things? 9-how do tornadoes dissipate? 10-why are tornadoes usually gray? This is a tornado from Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. 11.-Why is a tornado or hurricane called typhoon or cyclone? 12.-how do hurricanes cause floods? 13.-why does a tornado need energy? 1.-Tornadoes are smaller but stronger and usually found in the mid-west, or the tornado alley. Tornadoes are usually formed when hot air meets cold air and starts spinning rapidly. Other tornadoes are formed using thunderstorms. When a tornado hits water, it creates a water spout. Hurricanes are huge and are large enough to engulf an entire state. Hurricanes and tornadoes are also called typhoon or cyclone. Hurricanes usually form near the water around the gulf coast. They both have a circular center that is usually called “The Eye of the Storm” 2.-Tornadoes usually form when hot air meets cold air and starts spinning rapidly. It can also happen when a thunderstorm that was just made gets so pressurized that it shoots down a rotating column of spinning air. 3.-Tornadoes happen more near the coast because hot air and cold air meet more frequently in the mid-west. It is also because thunderstorms happen more frequently near tornado alley. 4.-Some thunderstorms also spin up and down. When they form tornadoes, the same spin happens to the tornado. And also because a tornado wouldn’t form if it doesn’t spin. 5.- There are a lot of reasons why people take pictures of tornadoes. One of them is just for the mere fun of it. I wouldn’t do it just for that, but most of the time they do it for a living. Storm chasers like Warren Faidley take pictures and put them online. And if you want to use them, you have to pay some money. Others do it so they can study tornadoes because there is still many things we don’t know about them. 6.-Tornadoes do damage because there winds are really strong. Some weak tornadoes only do a little damage such as sucking up shingles and branches. Since there are so many types of tornadoes, someone named Fujita made up the Fujita scale to measure how much damage a tornadoes do. 7.-Tornadoes can spin faster because they are smaller and can spin faster because a hurricane controls more air and needs more energy to move it, so hurricanes spin slower. But hurricanes can still cause floods and are a danger to more people because it is way bigger. 8.-They have such strong winds that they bounce of the ground and then push air up which causes them to lift anything in its way. 9.-Tornadoes dissipate when they have no more energy to power it and then the tornado's winds start slowing down and then eventually dissipate. 10.-It all depends what the tornado sucks up. Not all tornadoes are grey. some are white, green, and even red. But usually it is all dust and grass. 11.-tornadoes, cyclones, and typhoons are actually different things. But hurricanes are the same as cyclones and typhoons. It all depends where on the planet they happen. Typhoons are on the coast of the Pacific ocean while cyclones occur around the Atlantic. But they are all hurricanes. 12.-The hurricane suck up water from the coast and then spits it back out more inland. When in goes back down to the coast, the water goes in faster then it flows out so it causes a flood. 13.-because if a tornado doesn’t have any more energy, it will stop spinning. That is also another reason why tornadoes dissipate.
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2.1 Possible Sources
[] [] [|__http://www.gohsep.la.gov/factsheets/WHATTODOINATORNADO.htm__] [|_] [|_http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornintro.html__\] [] [|__http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/storm-chasers/tornado-chase-game/tornado-chase-game.html__] *[|__http://illiniweather.com/pages/kids_weather_links.htm__] *[|__http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tornado1.html__] *[|__http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/tornadoes/preview.weml__] *[|__http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/tornado/__] *[|__//http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/2006-04-03-tornado-basics_x.htm//__] *[|__http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/tornadoes/__] *[|__http://tornado-facts.com/interesting-tornado-facts/__] *[|__http://www.google.com/#q=about+tornadoes&hl=en&safe=active&prmd=ivun&source=univ&tbs=nws:1&tbo=u&ei=T4cKTc7dJ5Ks8QPw2cU8&sa=X&oi=news_gr] [|__http://www.kidzworld.com/article/577-all-about-tornadoes__] [|Famous][|Tornadoes][| - Life123] [|Tornadoes][| —][|FactMonster][|.com] [] [] [] [] [|_http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/tornadoes/preview.wem] []

**2.2 Best Sources**
[] [] [|__http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tornado1.html__] [|__http://www.kidzworld.com/article/577-all-about-tornadoes__] [|Famous][|Tornadoes][| - Life123] [] []

**3.1 Locate Sources**
[] [] [|__http://www.gohsep.la.gov/factsheets/WHATTODOINATORNADO.htm__] [|_] [|_http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornintro.html__\] [] [|__http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/storm-chasers/tornado-chase-game/tornado-chase-game.html__] *[|__http://illiniweather.com/pages/kids_weather_links.htm__] *[|__http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tornado1.html__] *[|__http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/tornadoes/preview.weml__] *[|__http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/tornado/__] *[|__//http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/2006-04-03-tornado-basics_x.htm//__] *[|__http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/tornadoes/__] *[|__http://tornado-facts.com/interesting-tornado-facts/__] *[|__http://www.google.com/#q=about+tornadoes&hl=en&safe=active&prmd=ivun&source=univ&tbs=nws:1&tbo=u&ei=T4cKTc7dJ5Ks8QPw2cU8&sa=X&oi=news_group&ct] [|=title&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CFUQqAIwAw&fp=46a3aa67685d478a&safe=on__] [|__http://www.kidzworld.com/article/577-all-about-tornadoes__] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[|Famous][|Tornadoes][| - Life123] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[|Tornadoes][| —][|FactMonster][|.com] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[|_http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/tornadoes/preview.wem] <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: #2c2eaf; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[]

**3.2 Information Within Sources**
1: Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, these destructive forces of nature are found most months. In an frequently in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries. A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of 250 mph or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and 50 miles long. 2: Tornadoes can take place anywhere, but the majority occwhich most tornadoes hit, which include the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois! The spring season is a very popular time for tornadoes to happen! Tornadoes also occur a little less near the coast and occur more in the summer.
 * About Tornadoes**

Tornadoes can destroy buildings and create a damage path a mile wide. It can be as long as 50 miles long! Its wind speeds can top 300 miles a hour. The best place for making a tornado is Tornado Alley. It starts from Texas through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to Dakota. Warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air from the north bumps together and forms a tornado. Tornadoes are usually made from thunderstorms. There usually are tornadoes at Spring or summer, in the late afternoon. The reason why people die or get injured is mostly from the flying debris in the tornado. When a tornado comes, the sky is a darkish, greenish color. Before a tornado comes, the air will be still, and won’t have wind. A tornado appears like a rotating funnel, coming down from the sky when a thunderstorm appears. Tornadoes start at a line which separates moist air and dry air. There are three types of tornadoes. There are multiple vortex, waterspout, and land spout. The multiple-vortex tornado is one that has two columns rotating in the center of the tornado. Waterspouts form from severe storms and go on water. They are very fast. Land spouts have short life-span and has a short, smooth funnel which does not reach the surface. Although they are weaker than normal tornadoes, they give out strong winds that can cause serious damages. Tornadoes occur when a bunch of cold and warm air masses meet. They also occur when thunderstorms happen. When the warm air rises to the top of the thundercloud, a sheet of cool dry air blocks and pressure builds up, the energy released it sometimes creates a tornado. It is more likely for a tornado to occur using that method in the mid-west, where the air is both warmer and more humid. That is why that area is called Tornado Alley. _ There are different types of tornadoes(landspout,multiple vortex tornado,and the waterspout)tornadoes come from cumulus clouds,and are created when funnel clouds rotate and when hot and cold air collide.There are also tornadoes such as wedge tornadoes,which can get to be miles wide and look some what like a wedge of dust,air,and mud. And there’s the rope tornado,which is a long winding skinny looking tornado. Funnel clouds are rotating funnel shaped clouds thaty reach down from cumulus clouds,they’re also called pendant clouds, tornado clouds, or tubas.Tornadoes are often spawned by huge thunderstorms called supercells. Tornadoes form anytime at the day or night, but by 12 hours of landfall, tornadoes tend to occur in the day time. They can go as fast as 100mph to 300mph. Tornadoes usually last a few minuets. Questions: 1.-How is a tornado different from a hurricane? 2.-Why do tornadoes occur? 3.-Why do less tornadoes happen near the coast? 4.-Why do tornadoes spin? 5.-How are tornadoes good to take pictures of? 6.-How do the mere winds of a tornado do damage? 7.-Why are tornadoes stronger but smaller than hurricanes? 8.-Why do tornadoes suck up things? 9.-How do tornadoes dissipate? 10.-Why are tornadoes usually gray ? Answers: 1.-Tornadoes are smaller but stronger and usually found in the mid-west, or the tornado alley. Tornadoes are usually formed when hot air meets cold air and starts spinning rapidly. Other tornadoes are formed using thunderstorms. When a tornado hits water, it creates a water spout. Hurricanes are huge and are large enough to engulf an entire state. Hurricanes and tornadoes are also called typhoon or cyclone. Hurricanes usually form near the water around the gulf coast. They both have a circular center that is usually called “The Eye of the Storm” 2.-Tornadoes usually form when hot air meets cold air and since hot air rises and cold air sinks, the air starts spinning rapidly. 3.-Tornadoes happen more near the coast because hot air and cold air meet more frequently in the mid-west. It is also because thunderstorms happen more frequently near tornado alley. 4.-Some thunderstorms also spin up and down Because cold air goes down and then the hot and cold air start spinning and creates a tornado. When they form tornadoes, the same spin happens to the tornado. And also because a tornado wouldn’t form if it doesn’t spin. 5.- There are a lot of reasons why people take pictures of tornadoes. One of them is just for the mere fun of it. I wouldn’t do it just for that, but most of the time they do it for a living. Storm chasers like Warren Faidley take pictures and put them online. And if you want to use them, you have to pay some money. Others do it so they can study tornadoes because there is still many things we don’t know about them. 6.-Tornadoes do damage because there winds are really strong. Some weak tornadoes only do a little damage such as sucking up shingles and branches. Since there are so many types of tornadoes, someone named Fujita made up the Fujita scale to measure how much damage a tornadoes do. 7.-Tornadoes can spin faster because they are smaller and can spin faster because a hurricane controls more air and needs more energy to move it, so hurricanes spin slower. But hurricanes can still cause floods and are a danger to more people because it is way bigger. 8.-They have such strong winds that they bounce of the ground and then push air up which causes them to lift anything in its way. 9.-Tornadoes dissipate when they have no more energy to power it and then the tornado's winds start slowing down and then eventually dissipate. 10.-It all depends what the tornado sucks up. Not all tornadoes are grey. some are white, green, and even red. But usually it is all dust and grass. New questions corresponding to the old ones 1.-Why is a tornado or hurricane called typhoon or cyclone? 2.-how do hurricanes cause floods? 3.-why does a tornado need energy? New answers 1.-tornadoes, cyclones, and typhoons are actually different things. But hurricanes are the same as cyclones and typhoons. It all depends where on the planet they happen. Typhoons are on the coast of the Pacific ocean while cyclones occur around the Atlantic. But they are all hurricanes. 82.-The hurricane suck up water from the coast and then spits it back out more inland. When in goes back down to the coast, the water goes in faster then it flows out so it causes a flood. 3.-because if a tornado doesn’t have any more energy, it will stop spinning. That is also another reason why tornadoes dissipate. Websites used:
 * Question_sand_answers_about_tornadoes.com
 * Answers.com
 * Weather_Wiz_Kids.com
 * Yahoo.answers.com
 * Wral.com
 * WIkipedia.com
 * weatherdudes.com
 * experts123beta.com
 * Others that are on Xxx's

**4.1 Engage**
Tornadoes come in many different colors, depending what they suck up. For example, if a tornado sucks up a lot of grass, then it would be green, if a tornado sucked up dust, it would be gray. And tornadoes have really strong winds, so if you were in a tornado, you would probably want to hide in the basement so you won't get sucked up and killed. But if you don't know it it's coming, and you get sucked up, then that will almost definitely be the end of you. Unless you are really lucky and then you land on a tower of one-thousand mattresses (with memory foam). So you probably would want to check the weather channel if you live in tornado alley. So you ask what is tornado alley?(or not?). Tornado Alley is a section in the middle of the United America that is prone to having tornadoes. That is because southwest of tornado alley has a lot of moist air, east of tornado alley has a lot of warm air, and west to tornado alley has a lot of cold air, and tornadoes usually form when hot air meets cold air. For example, if you were in Antarctica, and you make a very warm and long fart, you might whip up a tornado, or what I call, a fart-devil, which would get you in a stinky situation. But then again, what is the chance of you going to Antarctica.

**4.2 Extract**
This is the information that [] provides : It says that a tornado is a violent column of rotating air that comes down from a thunderstorm. It also says that there is a weaker type of tornado calles gustnado or land spout. It says that these type of tornadoes are weaker, because they aren't with a wall cloud. A wall cloud is a cumulonimbus cloud that isn't dense enough to rain and tornadoes start from a rotating wall cloud. It also stated that a funnel cloud is basically a tornado that isn't touching the ground. It also has a graph called the Fujita scale that measures how powerful tornadoes are.


 * = Fujita Scale ||= Speed ||= Result/Damage Done ||= Enhanced Operational Fujita Scale ||

65-85 ||
 * F0 || 40-72 M.P.H. || Pretty weak, but enough to break some branches. || E.F.0

86-110 ||
 * F1 || 73-112 M.P.H. || Enough to snap trees or move mobile homes.......................... || E.F.1

111-135. ||
 * = F2 ||= 113-157 M.P.H. ||= Strong enough to unroot trees and take of the roofs of strong houses ||= E.F.2

136-165 ||
 * F3 || 158-206 M.P.H. || Very strong and has enough power to turn trains over or lift cars of the ground. || E.F.3

166-200 ||
 * F4 || 207-260 M.P.H. || Strong enough to lift strong homes of the ground. || E.F.4

200 & up || .
 * F5 || 261-318 M.P.H. || So strong they can shoot cars that were sucked up faster than mistles. || E.F.5

5.1 Presentaion Plan
Slide 1/ Title: Some Facts About Tornadoes

Slide 2: Title= How Do Tornadoes Occur? Text=List some facts about tornadoes forming.

Slide 3: Title=Why Do Tornadoes Spin? Text= Write the reason tornadoes spin.

Slide 4: Title=Why Do Tornadoes Suck Up Things? Text =list how tornadoes suck up things.

Slide 5: Title=Why are tornadoes called cyclones or typhoon? Text=Write reason.

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6.1 Judge the Product
Davin:I think that we don't have enough slides on the keynote, but overall, I think we did fine. Ashley:

6.2 Judge the Process
Davin: I think the process was good, but I think we should of spent more time on our Keynote, and getting Annabel to do more.