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

  1. Watch video with the prompt ‘What do you notice?’
  2. Students spend 5 mins writing down what they NOTICED (maybe use sticky notes – one for each item)
  3. Students have a group discussion on what was noticed and these are compiled (you could group them into categories?)
  4. Watch video again with prompt ‘What do you wonder?’
  5. Students spend 5 mins writing down what they WONDER (use sticky notes – one for each item)
  6. Students have another group discussion on what they wonder and these are compiled.
  7. Do students notice any groups of similar ‘wonders’?
  8. What other phenomenon might be related to what they saw?
  9. What kind of questions would the class like to find out more about?
  10. Optional – Hold Zoom meeting with Geologist.

 

 

Direct link to video is here (YouTube)

Video breakdown

The video is less than 2 mins long.

The video is divided up into four sections.  The sections are divided by an image fading to black before the next image.   Images in a section fade into each other.  Students will not be aware of these transitions.

The sections are:

  1. Volcano shapes and locations – stratiform alone, in groups, islands, eroded, near cities etc
  2. Volcanic features – cinder cones, ash, lava fields, types of lava
  3. Eruptions – steam, smoke lava flows and fire fountains, ash plumes and clouds
  4. Human impact – gases and masks, forest and crop destruction, roads cut by lava, Pompeii

 

 

Watcha Thinkin – Volcanoes (review)