Please humour me. Can you think of any reasons why hurricanes wouldn't be a suitable topic for a Science Day project?

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I mean, it's science, innit?

erm...because the teacher doesn't know enough about them? Because they don't cross her national curriculum radar?

Sounds like an excellent topic to me.

Lol, thanks duchesse. Not having to do any research/printouts for dd will save me loads of time

Hard to do a practical on it?

Hard to explain the basic reasons to children of this age?

Oh God is it MB? Have to admit to knowing little about them myself. Thankfully it's going on a wall so no practical involved. Are they really quite hard to get your head around?

Actually I still have her making magnets from batteries one from last year. She has a different teacher this year - do I dare try and pull it off?

extend it a little by showing that the more turns on the coil the better the magnet? That adding an iron core improved the magnet?

Or did you do that last year?

We covered them in geography at school, but can definitely see where they are science too.

what age group ?

Hurricanes are nice visually because you can really see the eye in the middle - and you can get a sequence of images to show how it builds up and then dies once it gets over land - ie once its war water supply is cut off.

You can also superimpose the wind field on it to show where the strongest winds are and which direction they are going in.

So you can make it an observational thing - without going into the why very much - I am guessing the fluid dynamics of it would be a bit much for everyone !

Because someone in the class lost a much-loved relative in one?

ahem - think they are more Geography than Science

although according to Channel 4 Geography as a subject doesn't seem to exist, lots of 'our' stuff gets lumped in with the Science.

The kids love learning about hurricanes, they are easy to teach to teach basically too.