🧪 Science with Sarah: Soda bottle tornadoes 🌪️

👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s science experiment at Anne Frank Inspire Academy NW Military here!

Hello parents, teachers and students!

Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays when Meteorologist Sarah Spivey does the demonstrations and explains the science behind it.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Two 2-liter soda bottles with the labels removed
• Plastic tornado bottle connector. Find them here
• Water
• Food dye (optional)
• Glitter (optional)

DO THE EXPERIMENT

• STEP 1: Make sure to remove all parts of the plastic lid from the soda bottles
• STEP 2: Fill one of the soda bottles 2/3 with water. Add only a couple of drops of food dye and glitter to the water.
• STEP 3: Screw tight the tornado connector onto to the filled bottle
• STEP 4: Take the empty soda bottle and connect it to the top of the other soda bottle. Make sure it is screwed on tight or else your tornado will leak!
• STEP 5: Flip the soda bottles so that the empty bottle is on the table and the filled bottle is on the top. Give everything a quick swirl and you should see a tornado develop!

SCIENCE WITH SARAH

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