This presentation can be used to engage students to learn about the geography of tornadoes through data.

1. Where do tornadoes happen?
Exploring through data analysis

2. Teacher Notes
• These slides can be incorporated in classroom
instruction in different ways:
– Class discussion
– Interactive group activities
• Consider writing the questions on butcher paper.
Having students write their answers and compare.
• Split students into groups and have them work together
answer questions
• See the notes section of each slide for
additional questions

3. Credit: NOAA

4. Credit: NOAA

8. eo.ucar.edu/webweather/maps.html

9. Tornado Alley: South central plains of the United States
Credit: NOAA, UCAR Center for Science Education

10. Credit: NOAA

11. Credit: NOAA

12. Credit: New York Times

14. Wrap-up
• What patterns did you notice in the datasets?
• Did you notice any correlations between the
datasets?
• Were there any areas that you expected to
find correlations, where in fact, there were
not correlations?
• What surprised you about these datasets?
• What additional information would be useful
to see represented as a visual dataset?