Tornado in a Jar

Mālō ni everybody!

This term we have moved onto learning about tornadoes and yesterday we made our very own! How, you ask? Well! Let us tell you.

Renesmee - Today I have created a tornado in a jar. We used glitter to make it look like the tornado was sucking all of the stuff off the ground. The tornado is created by centripetal force.

Mohamed - I shook the jar to make a tornado. The glitter represented the debris that gets sucked up by the tornado. The centripetal force is what pushes the air to the middle.

Malia - We shook a jar and we made a twister. We made it look like a twister. We put soap, water and glitter in the jar. The centripetal force makes a twister by pushing the air to the middle.

Awan - I shook the jar to make a tornado. The glitter represented the debris that gets sucked up in a real tornado. A centripetal force is the air that's pushing the water and that's how you make a tornado in a jar.

Check out these videos to see how we did it. You might even like to give it a go yourself! Let us know if you do, we'd love to hear what you think of our little experiment. 😊

Happy Friday bloggers!