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Kicks Up a Storm

From The Magic School Bus · 1994

Kicks Up a Storm
26 min2nd3rd4th5thScience
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Summary

A heat wave has everyone cranky until the class rides the bus up into a building thunderstorm. They learn what conditions brew up wild weather.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A heat wave has everyone cranky until the class rides the bus up into a building thunderstorm.

  1. What does the air need for a storm to build up?
  2. Why does it often feel cooler after a storm?
  3. How do forecasters know a storm is coming?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: weather, storm, cloud.

Try it: List two things you'd watch in the sky to guess that a storm is on the way.