5E Lesson Plan

Teacher(s): Jasmine
Date: 9/25/2021
Subject / grade level: Science/ 2nd grade
Materials: Water bottles, vortex bottle connectors, pencils, notebooks, little plastic toys

State Standards: ESS1-2-1. Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can
occur quickly or slowly.

Lesson objective(s):
• Students will be a put together two water bottles with a vortex bottle connector and work in small
groups to try different ways to make a tornado.
• Students will be able to see how they could make a tornado as well as why we have tornadoes and
what they do.
Differentiation/Accommodation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:
• We wil be able to get into groups and make sure that the students are spread out evenly like those
who understand it more and those who don’t. So if you have a group of four you could put two that
are understanding it and two that are still figuring it out to help with the process of understanding.
ENGAGEMENT
• We will be doing several trial runs to see if we are able to make a tornado. We will investigate what
techniques work as well as seeing if we could find different ways in making a tornado.
• What technique worked best in making a tornado?
Did we find any new way in making a tornado?
Were you able to make a tornado?
EXPLORATION
• Students will write down what they think will happen if they tip the bottle over, shake the bottle, or
spin the bottle. After that we will explore what actually happens when we do that.
• What do you think will happen if we turn the bottle upside down?
What do you think will happen if we shake the bottle up and down?
What do you think will happen if we spin the bottle?
What do you think a tornado is?
Do you know what a tornado looks like and how they work?
EXPLANATION
• Tornadoes are made when hot and cold air combined, before they start the weather gets stormy
and the winds pick up. When a tornado is going above you or around you they often carry things up
and throw them. When we spin the bottle that is resembling the winds mixing and coming together
to make it stronger.
• When you spin the bottle is the tornado you made really fast or slow?
When you made a tornado did it lift any of the plastic toys?
ELABORATION
• Students will be able to see what effects the tornado has on the plastic toys lifting them into the air
and spinning them around. They will be able to know how a tornado starts and what it can do.
• Tornado, observation, cause and effect, investigation
• If they were ever to live in a tornado zone they will be able to see the beginning of it and go from
there.
EVALUATION
• We could write our own little book about a story of a tornado and what happened. We could draw a
picture of what we think a tornado is and how it’s made.