On Wednesday, Meteorologist Alex O'Brien visited Turman Elementary School in Colorado Springs. During her visit, she spoke to the kindergartners in Mrs. Hernandez's class and the SSN students in Ms. Archuleta's class about severe weather safety.
The students were great listeners and had smart ideas about how to be safe during dangerous weather. The students learned the phrase "when thunder roars, go indoors." And they learned the weather dance!
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For more information on how to have First Alert 5 Weather visit with your classroom, email lauren.brand@koaa.com.
Want to get your young scientists and artists in your family involved? Download the First Alert 5 Storm Safe activity book (20MB PDF).
They'll find useful and fun information on winter storms, thunderstorms, lightning, hail, strong winds, tornadoes, flooding, how to be a safety kid, cool ideas for safe at-home experiments, and more!
Your young scientist can also send in a portion of the activity book to be featured in a First Alert 5 forecast.
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