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Aerosol Activity: Baked Volcano Cookies

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students make cookies to predict and identify the three types of volcanoes: Cinder Cone, Composite, or Shield. They shape a walnut-sized piece into a volcano and place on a cookie sheet.
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Volcanoes: Death and Recovery

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils examine the aftermath of a volcano. In groups, they participate in activities focusing on the impact on plants and animals. To end the lesson, they discuss the positives to the environment after a volcanic eruption.
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Types of Volcanic Eruptions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Blow the roof off your classroom with this multimedia science lesson on volcanic eruptions. A short online video teaches young geologists about shield and composite volcanoes and explores the examples of Kilauea and Mt. Vesuvius, before...
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Volcanic Environments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A diagram showing a cross-section of Earth points out the location of different plate boundaries and displays the numbers one through five. Beneath the diagram are five photos of different types of volcanoes. The object of the activity...
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Active Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics and the "Ring of Fire"

For Students 8th - 10th
In this volcanoes, plate tectonics and "Ring of Fire" worksheet, students view the location of volcanoes on a map of the Earth, they see the "Ring of Fire" and they locate the major plates of the Earth's crust. They use the map as...
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Volcano Notes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this earth science worksheet, students examine the notes that are concerned wit the concept of a volcano and the diagram is interpreted for its meaning.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 1

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Vacation Under the Volcano activity, students use vocabulary words from chapter 1 of the book to fill in the blanks in 9 sentences.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 2

For Students 2nd - 6th
For this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students use vocabulary words from chapter 2 of the book to fill in the blanks in 15 sentences.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 4

For Students 2nd - 5th
For this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students use vocabulary words from chapter 4 of the book to fill in the blanks. Students complete 8 problems.
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Vacation Under the Volcano: Chapter 5

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students fill in the blanks with vocabulary words for chapter 5 of the book. Students complete 7 problems.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 6

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students fill in the blanks with vocabulary words for chapter 6 of the book. Students complete 7 problems.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 8

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students fill in the blanks with vocabulary words for chapter 8 of the book. Students complete 6 problems.
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Vacation Under the Volcano Chapter 9

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this Vacation Under the Volcano worksheet, students fill in the blanks with vocabulary words for chapter 9 of the book. Students complete 6 problems.
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Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Challenge geography classes to locate the major volcanoes and earthquake faults on a world map. In groups, they identify the pattern made and examine the relationship between the locations of the faults and volcanoes and tectonic plates....
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Dante's Peak Movie Review

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Middle or high school volcanologists watch the 1997 film, Dante's Peak. They make observations as they watch and then write a movie review, focusing on what was accurately represented. They also point out what facts were stretched by...
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Forces of Nature: Ring of Fire

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will research the Ring of Fire and be able to share their findings with their partner. They will also demonstrate volcanic eruptions using a baking soda and vinegar volcano model. Then they will discover how continental...
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Death and Recovery

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, devastating plant and animal life for miles around. Two activities are included in this lesson plan. In one, learners evaluate tree rings to determine the age of a tree and the year of a volcano....
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Lesson 2 Activity 2: Mapping Mount St. Helens

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use topographic map skills to interpret impact of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens on the volcano's topography, and draw profile views of Mount St. Helens before and after the May 18, 1980, eruption.
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Rock My World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a hands-on experiment designed to demonstrate how continents and oceans formed and why the manner of formation is relevant to a study of volcanoes.
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Volcano Contour Models Activity and Tracing the Highs and Lows in San Francisco

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate how to draw topographic contours and read topographic maps.They examine the topography of San Francisco and contrast the elevation of different points within San Francisco.
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The Eruptor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use the internet to research facts about volcanoes. In groups, they locate the nearest volcano near them and find photographs of volcanoes erupting. To end the activity, they build their own model of a volcano with different...
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Ocean Explorer

The Volcano Factory

For Teachers 5th - 6th
The tectonic processes that have resulted in the formation of the Marianas Arc, and the Marianas Trench are explored. Groups of pupils access websites that give them a wealth of information about these formations. Each group must prepare...
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Inside the Crater

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners explore and analyze what's inside the crater of an active volcano. They research the history of powerful eruptions and how they have helped to make our planet what it is today. Each student then illustrates, designs and...
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Volcanoes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the formation of volcanoes. In this earth science lesson, students build their own volcanoes in the lab using different materials. They identify the different types of volcanoes.

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