Help me give my students 3 Coriolis Apparatuses and 3 Anmometers for use in our science classrooms during our weather unit to understand struggling concepts.
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Our students come in year after year and struggle to understand the Coriolis Effect. They find it hard to grasp that the rotation and curvature of the Earth cause the wind to deflect one way in the northern hemisphere and the opposite in the southern hemisphere. This causes the Earth's complex wind patterns. With the Coriolis Apparatus, we should have the ability to really show the students why this happens. We have tried balloons, we have tried diagrams, we have tried videos, and so far, nothing has really gotten it to stick with them or allow them to understand. They also struggle with which weather instrument determines wind speed, by having an actual anemometer to show them and allow them to take outside so they can see it in action for themselves, they should be able to remember which instrument is responsible for measuring wind speed.
My students come in every day hungry for knowledge and for years they have struggled to understand these particular concepts.
Please consider helping me to obtain these materials so that each of the science teachers in my hallway will receive one so that we can run demos or a station so that students will have the opportunity to interact with these tools to help them understand these concepts.
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