Volcanic+Eruptions

//Curriculum Links:// Geography and Earth Science
 * Volcanic Eruptions **

//Objectives:// Students will read a TFK article about Mt.Saint Helens. Students will complete a cluster map by brainstorming ideas, thoughts, prior-knowledge, and "wonderings" they have about volcanoes.

//Materials:// Teacher Tube Volcano Resources: @http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=98520 @http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=The_Volcano_Song&video_id=27461 *BEST VOLCANO SONG!

//Time:// 1 Period, 45 minutes

//Scope and Sequence:// Begin by taking students on a trip around the globe, to various locations of volcanoes. Ask what they already know about volcanoes, what occurs when a volcano errupts? Have students generate questions about volcanoes. Students may have heard about a very famous volcanic eruption from long ago - Pompeii Check out the link for the discover volcano explorer, and build a virtual volcano. Next students will learn about a volcanic eruption that happened not long ago in the United States. Follow the lesson from Time For Kids below.

@http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/minilessons/wr/0,28171,1588232,00.html 1. Ask: Why are volcanoes dangerous? Are volcanoes found in the United States? (Yes, the largest volcano in the world is Mauna Loa in Hawaii.) 2. Tell students that they will be reading a story about Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in Washington. 3. Download the cluster map for student's to use for brainstorming. Have them write the word volcano in the middle of the cluster map. 4. Read the article, A Sleeping Giant Awakes about Mount St Helens aloud as a class. During the first reading, have students just listen. Then have students read the story individually, filling in their web with volcano facts from the article. **THINK:** Why are volcanoes dangerous? What tools do scientists use to study volcanoes to help keep people safe?

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">//Supplementary Materials:// __Volcanoes and Earthquakes__, by Patricia Lauber __Volcanoes Inside and Out__, by D.M. Souza __Volcanoes__, by Franklyn M. Branley ** Time For Kids: Earthquakes! ** by Editors Of Time For Kids ** Volcano & Earthquake (DK Eyewitness Books) ** by [|Susanna Van Rose]

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">//Assessment of Students:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will write information in their notebooks about how volcanoes erupt. Students will correctly identify the parts and vocabulary about volcanoes. Students will be able to locate areas on the map where volcanoes can be found. <span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">//Evaluation of the Lesson:// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will be able to locate areas on the map where volcanoes can be found, and describe what happens in the earth that causes a volcano to erupt.

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">//Extension Activities:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> From Easy Fun School: http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1153.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 1. Take a wire tomato cage, the kind that you put in the garden that is roughly conical in shape. Cover with brown paper to create the mountain or volcanic cone. You can decorate the top in two ways, (1) paint the top white to mimic a snow-covered peak or (2) use red and orange streamers to mimic lava. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 2. Make a paper mache volcano. This is a messy craft so do it out of doors. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 3. Homemade volcanic eruption at [|Lots O' Lava] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 4. Look around your house to make it “earthquake safe” – FEMA for Kids http://www.fema.gov/kids/volcano.htm or http://www.fema.gov/kids/eqhunt.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 5. Take a virtual fieldtrip to different volcanoes around the world: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/kids/vrtrips.html or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/kids/kids.html or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://www.field-guides.com/volcano/volcan.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 6. Science: Create a volcano in a bottle -- http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/volcano.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 7. Geography: Build a elevation map of the Hawaiian Islands. You can use any salt dough recipe or use this [|hypoallergenic clay] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 8. Read a personal narrative of what happened during the most recent eruption of Mount Saint Helen: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vnarrative1.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 9. Photography & Art: Study photographs of the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helen. Try and reproduce these pictures using pencil and paper. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://www.aone.com/~robert/helens.html or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/StHelens.html or <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/msh.html <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 10. Study Hawaiian volcanoes. How do they differ from other volcanoes around the world? http://www.volcanic.com/~dan/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 11. Visit the website of the National Volcanic Monument at Mount Saint Helen http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 12. Make a tasty earthquake gelatin treat: http://www.fema.gov/kids/tastyeq.htm <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 13. Creative Writing: Pretend you are at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. If you were writing to relatives after the eruption, what would you say? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 14. Research: Find out about some of the most recent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Which have been worse in the passed six months. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> 15. Research: Who invented the seismograph? http://inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/inventors/blseismograph.htm <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">//HOME//