Read Works
Read Works: A Volcano Erupts
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes a volacano and an eruption of a volcano. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Rock, Rumble
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining what causes volcanoes to erupt. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Oh No! Volcano
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about volcanic eruptions and the problems they create. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Volcanoes Interactives
A full-featured investigation of volcanoes that answers questions about our ability to predict eruptions. Site begins with a review of the fundamentals (defines lava, magma, and related terms and describes how volcanoes form) and then...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Volcanoes
This interactive from Annenberg Learner asks the question of whether erumptions of volcanoes can be predicted. Review what you already know about volcanoes, and move on to forecasting potential. Several short video clips are included as...
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Olympus Mons
General information about the biggest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Includes one image. Vocabulary words are linked to a glossary of terms.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: Hot Topics: Lava Flows
How long does it take a volcano to grow? What are the different types of lava? What's a lava tube? All of these questions are addressed by this resource.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Volcanoes
Learn about the role volcanoes have played in shaping the Earth by engaging in interactive activities such as building a volcano or learning about the lava, water vapor, and gases that erupt from volcanoes.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa Classroom of the Future: Volcanoes
Use this site to discover some interesting facts about volcanoes and how they affect the earth. See some great animation and photos of volcanoes as well.
Ready
Ready: Kids: Volcanoes
This resource explains volcanoes as well as what you should do to protect yourself before, during, and after a volcano.
PBS
Pbs Teachers:costa Rica: Volcanos and Soil Formation
Examine why newly-formed lava has little plant life, explain why one generation of plant life allows subsequent plant life to grow in an area and determine why organic soil formation is a slow process.
Other
Goodearth Graphics: The Virtual Lava Tube
Explore this photo archive from Goodearth Graphics to learn more about lava formations and effects.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Chocolate Lava
Learn about the two different types of lava in this hands-on science experiment that uses chocolate as lava. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of the difference between the two.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science in Paradise: Paradise Postponed
Research the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano that devastated the island of Montserrat, and create a mini volcano using the chemical reaction caused by mixing baking soda and vinegar.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Italian Style: Eruption!
Research Mt. Vesuvius and scientists' preparations for a future eruption. Produce a television program about volcanoes for middle school students as part of a public information campaign to inform citizens of Washington State about Mount...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Volcano Lesson Plan
Use this site to understand how volcanoes work.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Volcanoes: Lesson 4
This lesson will provide models or diagrams that explain how volcanic eruptions occur, and discuss their impact on living things. It is 4 of 5 in the series titled "Volcanoes."
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Volcanoes
Kids learn about the science of volcanoes including how they form mountains, lava, and magma; types such as cinder cone, composite, and shield; watch a video about volcanoes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Intro
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how the different landforms are created. There will be two follow up lessons - one on volcanoes and one on mountains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Volcano
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how volcanoes are created.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Volcanoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students are given a brief description of a volcano and asked to identify the parts of the volcano.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Volcano
Illustrated resource explores how volcanoes are formed and the different types of volcanoes.