Oak Park Newspaper

report by Ed Vincent

Ms. Amy Freeze is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, and was
one of the first 20 females in the world to have that level of
certification. She is knowledgeable in the weather sciences but she also has a gift for dealing with kids and the public.

Ms. Freeze asked the kids a series of questions and even used a Socratic method for leading them to some of the correct answers to given topics. In a short time she had covered the water cycle from evaporation to the formation of hurricanes. She asked the kids how heavy they thought a cloud of a small size might weigh. Some of the kids thought it might be a hundred pounds, some thought as little as five pounds. The kids learned that some clouds can weigh many tons in weight, because they carry
ice crystals and when you have lots of them-you have lots of weight.

Amy Freeze Gets the Kids Involved and Shows How Much Fun Learning Can Be.
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Amy Freeze Shows the 2nd Grade Kids How They Do the Weather on Fox, How Maps are Changed used the famous "Clicker" and more....
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Amy Freeze holds her anemometer up and explains how it works, what it measures, and how she recorded tornado winds over 85 miles an hour on that very instrument.
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Ms. Freeze poses for photos, shakes hands, and answered every questions the kids could think of.
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All the kids got fun work books on weather from Fox news
and had a great time while they all learned a lot about the
weather. The teachers liked her too, when she was asked if it
was hard to be a meteorologist and she said not as hard as
being a mom (she has two young children) and no where as
hard as being a teacher....

It all ended with a dance lesson. A dance called the Tornado Dance. Watch it below and give it a try, and thanks to Amy Freeze for a fun educational time.

Amy Freeze Teaches the TORNADO dance.