High overhead or right on your doorstep. Weather is an amazingly powerful force.
From tornadoes in Toronto to hailstorms in Hamilton it affects each of us - every day. Turbulent Weather brings it down to earth...
Curricula-based and delivered by a current pilot and Soaring Micrometeorologist, Turbulent Weather is more than entertaining learning; it's the science that saves lives.
November 10, 1975...The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald A storm right here in Ontario cost 29 experienced mariners their lives..
A touching homage to the tragic windshift that sunk a 729 foot ship in just seconds, Turbulent Weather sets your students on an unforgettable journey through the wild ways of weather.
Turbulent Weather animates our weather in a novel and captivating, hands-on presentation. From Hurricane Hazel to the May, 1985 tornadoes that destroyed more than 200 southern Ontario homes... audiences see the weather right here in Canada, in brand new ways. More than just helping you cover the Weather Strand in a single class, it's unforgettable, practical learning.
"Great stuff...every teacher wants you back next term." - Brian Dixon, W.L. MacKenzie C.I.
"One of our OAC students, absolutely set on physics, is now thinking on a career in meteorology..."
"Is this guy worth it, or what?"
-Bob Giza, Science Head, Chaminade College
What weather did Montreal have today? Tomorrow?
Turbulent Turbulent Weather is a rare chance for participants to do some some fascinating things with weather.
With a real-life pilot/ micro- meteorologist, they learn not just how clouds are formed, but what kind of weather they bring. Right inside storms audiences marvel at how rain, snow, hail, lightning and amazingly powerful winds are created.
In an exciting hands-on session, participants capture, touch, carry and perform experiments with real clouds which they create
The unforgettable finale... a four foot tall tornado! Students with their heads in the clouds...
Turbulent Weather brings the weather into your classroom - showing students that warm air rising is responsible for much of our weather.
Learning by DOING, audiences prove to themselves that weather really matters.
Hands-on, with their heads in the clouds, they see and understand the dynamics of weather.
Far from another stormchaser show, Turbulent Weather shows how our weather is both friend and foe...how the forces that carry gliders high into the sky can turn harmless clouds into dangerously severe storms.
A fascinating, hands-on way to teach the new Ontario Science and Technology curricula, Turbulent Weather addresses nearly every Specific Expectation in the Weather strand, and several from Properties of Air and Heat.
Demonstrating the real implications of our local weather, it concentrates on the kind of weather that your students actually experience.
Answering everyday questions like:
"How can I know what weather is coming?"
"What do different clouds tell us about the weather...now and later?"
"Where am I most safe, during a tornado?"
"What causes a storm and when can they become severe?"
"What makes the thunder sound, with lightning?"
"What's the difference between a Storm Watch and a Storm Warning?"
Turbulent Weather explains and entertains... it's science that saves lives. A hands-on, interactive guide to the sky above us, it fascinates anyone ever affected by the weather.
Participants learn useful and potentially life-saving facts about real weather phenomenon:
A sudden drop in temperature, very dark or tall clouds forming on the horizon, a rapid change in the wind's direction and speed, or a sudden drop on your barometer's dial... these are clues that severe weather may be coming.
A cloud is really just a collection of very tiny ice crystals and/or water droplets suspended in air. These small droplets of water or bits of ice are very far spread apart from each other. When the drops get too big and heavy to stay in the cloud, rain or snow falls.
Cirrus CloudsCirrus clouds are very high, wispy clouds made of ice. Even in the summer, cirrus clouds are made of ice because it is cold high above Earth.
A cloud is really just a collection of very tiny ice crystals and/or water droplets suspended in air. These small droplets of water or bits of ice are very far spread apart from each other.
When the drops get too big and heavy to stay in the cloud, rain or snow falls.
Cumulus CloudsCumulus (the word means "heap") clouds are the large, sometimes very tall clouds that look like huge puffs of cotton. Sometimes cumulus clouds get dark gray and rain or hail falls from them. They are then called cumulonimbus clouds. The taller they are, the more turbulent they are...these clouds often create lightning and thunder.
Touch a real tornado!
After learning how weather patterns affect our lives every day, audiences verify some basic but fascinating facts, with hands-on experiments on real clouds, fog and a tornado which they help create. Using special heatless cloud-machines to make hundreds of litres of safe, cool cloudstuff (about 5 degrees below room temperature and made entirely of water) your classes take weather into their own hands and see what the sky is REALLY like.
TornadoFollowing its month-long debut at the Ontario Science Centre in June, 1999,
Turbulent Weather is available at schools and seniors residences. Call for availability.
Up to 4 classes can participate in a morning or afternoon. Or, individual class sessions are available, to suit your schedule.
Presentations include all materials and require nothing more than a slide projector, a screen and the drapes drawn.
Tailored for each audience...Turbulent Weather can be an introduction, concurrent with the curricula, a culminating activity or a fun, science-based session for audiences at an amazingly wide range of age levels.
Four-foot-tall, touchable tornado!It's fun for teachers, too. A welcome break from the blackboard that comes complete with a weather guide and activity manual to evaluate the students' learning, Turbulent Weather brings an avid aviation micrometeorologist to your school. Exciting and entertaining, it's a unique and practical perspective on the sky... from someone who's spent more than 500 hours up in it!
An animated, exciting and highly informed educator, Steve Bellerby has also conducted teacher workshops for the Science Teachers Association of Ontario and for the National Association of Montessori Schools.
For District School Boards from Waterloo to Durham, his curricula workshops on Flight, Air and Weather have helped teachers implement the new Ontario Curricula, S&T.
Rates are $295 per day... morning and afternoon sessions of up to 4 classes each. Mornings or afternoons (up to 4 classes) are available at $195.
Bookings with Balloon Science allow up to 3 classes to view each presentation, at a great discount... $345 for both sessions, or as little as $1.75 per student.
Multiple-day discounts are available for larger schools and for nearby facilities booking together. A limited number of presentations are offered at reduced rates for smaller schools or those in less affluent areas.
Rates include all materials and an activity handout to be copied for each group of participants... feel free to photocopy the booklet for every student to take home.
All presentations are satisfaction-guaranteed... or your school will not be invoiced!
For more information about availability, please call Steve at 416-588-2396 or click below to send a message to: sbellerby@aol.com
