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 spend 5 mins writing down what they NOTICED (maybe use sticky notes – one for each item)
- Students have a group discussion on what was noticed and these are compiled (you could group them into categories?)
- Watch video again with prompt ‘What do you wonder?’
- Students spend 5 mins writing down what they WONDER (use sticky notes – one for each item)
- Students have another group discussion on what they wonder and these are compiled.
- Do students notice any groups of similar ‘wonders’?
- What other phenomenon might be related to what they saw?
- What kind of questions would the class like to find out more about?
- 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:
- Volcano shapes and locations – stratiform alone, in groups, islands, eroded, near cities etc
- Volcanic features – cinder cones, ash, lava fields, types of lava
- Eruptions – steam, smoke lava flows and fire fountains, ash plumes and clouds
- Human impact – gases and masks, forest and crop destruction, roads cut by lava, Pompeii
Watcha Thinkin – Volcanoes (review)