Day 3 was a complete success! Today we taught about hurricane Katrina and toured the museum's exhibits. Among the exhibits we got to go in a hurricane simulator, but we measured wind speeds (as all good meteorologists do) and it turns out it was more like a "tropical storm" simulator topping out at 54 mph. We also saw a garage door from the wreckage of Katrina. I got to teach the kids about the circulation of a hurricane (counter clockwise and inward) and what to put in a disaster kit.
We also checked out the earthquake exhibit and learned about the primary and secondary waves created by quakes.
Our hands-on experiment was "cloud in a bottle". By using a two liter pop bottle, hot water, smoke, and decompression we created a cloud in a bottle.
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