If you are teaching your students about volcanoes, here are some great resources you can use in your classroom or just learn about volcanoes yourself
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Often the misconception people have is that lava is the most deadly thing about an erupting volcano! But this is ...
Lava won’t kill you but these six things could!
Trying to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) in the classroom can often seem disjointed. Having a STEM teaching ...
Volcanoes as a STEM teaching tool
Cinder cones are volcanic features that are found at volcanic sites where there has been some form of fountaining activity. Fire Fountains ...
Cinder Cones – a unique volcanic feature.
Most people believe that one of the major hazards of volcanoes are lava flows. They are surprised to find ...
Lava flows – can you outrun a lava flow?
Mapping lava flows using satellite images is a wonderful activity that you can do in your classroom. In some ...
Mapping lava flows – using color to work out relative ages
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Teaching Volcanoes
Welcome to the course! I have been helping educators teach about volcanoes for many years and hope that you ...
Magma Paperclips
Have your students model the eruption changes due to the different chemistry of magma. Using paperclips and a plastic contain, ...
Eruption Styles
Work out the eruption style of two volcanoes using eye witness accounts and reading the data from a diagram. Additional ...
Writing Prompts
Here are some writing prompts/essay questions that you can use with senior students or as research project for younger grades. ...
Volcanic Eruptions – Data
Have your students examine data about volcanic eruptions that have taken place between 1900 and August 2024. The data is ...
Plate Tectonics Battleships
Have your students play the classic 'battleship' game , but using earthquake and volcano locations on Earth. At the end ...
Flow vs Sill
Have your students look for evidence of an outcrop of basalt in a cliff to determine if it is a ...
Hekla History
Have your students examine the dates for the past eruptions of the volcano Hekla in Iceland. Using the data they ...
Lava Risk – interpreting a lava risk map
Have your students read data from a USGS lava risk map and interpret the most dangerous locations and where they ...
Thunder Island – volcanic eruption simulation
An in-class simulation where students play the role of scientists providing information about the possible eruption of volcanoes on an ...
Climeworld Eruption
Have your students map the spread of volcanic products from eruptions on the planet Climeworld. They will plot on a ...
Where to build the Hospital – Lava risk
Where to build the hospital - Lava Risk Mapping Have your students take on the role of a volcano risk ...
Mathematics on an Active Volcano
Want to make your teaching and learning of mathematics more exciting? What could be better than learning about the use ...
Engineering on an Active Volcano
Want to make your teaching and learning of engineering exciting? What could be better than learning about the use of ...
Technology on an Active Volcano
Want to make your teaching and learning of technology exciting? What could be better than learning about the use of ...
Science on an Active Volcano
Want to make your Science teaching and learning exciting? What could be better than learning about the science of an ...
Watcha Thinkin – Volcanoes
Watcha Thinkin is a way to start discussions in your classroom about an Earth Science topic (aligned to the NGSS Storyline process). This Watcha Thinkin is for Volcanoes. Suggested flow Watch video with the prompt ‘What do you notice?’ Students ...
Volcano Resources