CIWRO, in partnership with the Oklahoma Mesonet and the Oklahoma Science Teachers Association, provides free workshops to teachers to empower them to teach about atmospheric science with confidence in their classrooms.
In our Twisted workshop series in fall 2024, nearly 100 teachers visited the National Weather Center. Our researchers broke down the four basic ingredients of tornadoes in terms that could be conveyed to students. The lessons presented focused on thrid- through sixth-grade academic standards.
Highlights include:
To join our email list for a future workshop, email annette.price@ou.edu.
Teachers learn about convection by observing how red dye that has been heated is now rising to the top of the water.
Teachers assemble simple sling psychrometers, insttuments that can measure humidity in the air. They later used the data to calculate relative humidity.
Teachers learn about the four ingredients of tornadoes in the Twisted teacher workshop.
