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Teaching Volcanoes
Packet is available here. Click
here to see the Table of Contents. The Packet contains over
100 pages of ready-to-run materials covering: Types of Volcanoes &
Lava, World Volcano Zones, & the Relationship between Earthquakes
& Volcanoes. The CD or Email-Delivered Download contains: detailed
lesson plans & ideas,
bellwork and journal suggestions, labs and worksheets with answers,
tests & quizzes with answers, active learning suggestions including
Types of Volcanoes & Types of Lava Foldables©, and several Team
Game
suggestions you can run off on colored paper. Also includes: Three
PowerPoints! Can be
purchased as a Download or a CD. Several items from this Packet
are also available below at NO CHARGE! |
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You
are welcome to use these ideas in your classroom, within your science
department, within your school district, or to distribute to any
teacher who may find these lessons useful. I only ask that:
1. You cannot sell these lessons or make a profit on them in any way.
2. You cite the lessons original source, and do not white-out the
copyright footer on the pdf files
3. Do not copy and paste lessons onto your website. A link to the
original is to be used.
4. Do not claim these lessons as your own work.
NOTE: This disclaimer is
modeled after a couple of my favorite websites: The Science
Spot and Middle School Science. Thanks, teachers! |
Volcano
Study Guide |
Based
on Heath
Earth Science.
You can make a similar one, related to your own textbook. Add your own
diagrams for labeling. Click here
for my version.
UPDATE: I don't use Study Guides
much anymore. Boring isn't educationally
sound, in my opinion. Much better to do a Cut & Paste
FactSheet. Students cut out provided answers and paste into the correct
position on the FactSheet. Provide space for some written answers,
usually higher compare/contrast questions, such as How are Mafic and
Felsic Lavas different? Great interaction between students as they
strive to paste answers correctly. I usually see 100% of the students
involved which can't be said for the traditional Study Guide!
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Types
of Volcanoes |
Emphasizes the
three main
different
volcanoes. Also hits on Felsic and Mafic lava. Follow up with Volcano Skits. Click here for pdf worksheet.
Add your own sketches or ask the student to do the sketches!
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Volcano
PowerPoint Presentation |
Click here to
download.
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Volcano
Skits |
Assign groups
one of the three
main
types of volcanoes: composite, cinder cone, or shield. Require each
group to illustrate the following in their skit: the slope of their
volcano, the type of eruption, and the type of lava. they cannot talk,
but can makes noises, especially to make the eruption noises. Everyone
has to participate for full points. Let the rest of the class guess
which one is being presented instead of having a group announce it.
I've seen some great stuff with this assignment and I think they
remember them better. |
Construct
a Volcano
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This is a
deceptively simple
lab.
Even high schoolers are challenged by having to correctly construct the
three types of volcanoes out of "play dough." This works well in tandem
with Types
of Volcanoes worksheet. Click here
for the lab.
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Plotting
World
Earthquakes & Volcanoes |
One of the best
ways to wrap up
a
Plate Tectonics Unit is to use the plotting of earthquakes and
volcanoes on a world map and have the students DEDUCE the plate
boundaries. This works even better if you use recent world volcanoes
and earthquakes. You'd need to start early in your
Tectonics unit. I've done this on a world map on a bulletin board with
different colored push pins. Students also plotted on their world maps.
Click
here for
one version with
"canned" plot points.
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Email: mjkrech@yahoo.com
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