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Famous Volcanoes

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars investigate volcanoes, especially the ones that have caused extensive damage.  In this famous volcanoes lesson students choose from a list of projects and work as a team to complete.
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Volcanoes and Urban Planning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze satellite image data of Volcan Villarica. In this earth science lesson, students identify dangerous areas surrounding the volcano. They propose a new safe location for the town.
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Gelatin Volcanoes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students enjoy a hands on activity to understand how and why magma moves inside volcanoes.
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Vacation Under the Volcano

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this volcano worksheet, students locate 15 vocabulary words in a clever volcano shaped puzzle. It is unclear if this is related to a book.
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Volcano Acrostic

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students create an acrostic poem about volcanoes. Students use the letters in VOLCANOES to begin each line of poetry.
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Earthquakes And Volcanoes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this earth science worksheet, learners find the words that are associated with the events of earthquakes and the landform of a volcano.
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What Causes Volcanoes?

For Students 4th - 8th
For this volcano worksheet, students will label the parts of a volcano on a diagram. Then students will identify the 3 kinds of places where volcanoes can occur and describe how volcanoes are formed in the Pacific Ring of Fire. This...
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What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners read legends about volcanoes. They develop their own legend and shares them with the class. They practice their writing skills as well.
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Aerosol Lesson: Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a model of a volcano. They read "NASA Facts Atmospheric Aerosols" and discuss the impacts of volcanic eruptions. They write informative essays about how aerosols impact the Earth.
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Los Volcanes Mexicanos

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on Mexican volcanoes. They explore various websites, complete a website worksheet, answer questions in Spanish, and create a timeline of a volcano's eruptions.
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Ring of Fire

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students locate some of the 1,500 active volcanoes on a world map. Then by comparing their maps with a map of the world's tectonic plates, they discover that volcanoes occur because of the dynamic nature of the Earth's lithosphere.
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Hill of Fire

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine Paricutin eruptions. For this science lesson, students locate Paricutin on a map and take a virtual tour of volcanoes around the world. Students email questions to a geologist and create a news report on the original...
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Where Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars identify volcano locations by latitude and longitude. They analyze a world map, and complete a "Volcano Event Locations Chart."
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Aerosol Lesson: Mathematics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students convert volcano elevation from feet to meters.
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Forcasting the Path of Mudflows

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students visualize consistency of mudflows and how they move down stream valleys away from a volcano's summit. They use topographic maps of Mount St. Helens before the 1980 eruptions to forecast the path mudflows might take during an...
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It's Going to Blow Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Get your ocean explorers online, reading articles about submarine volcanoes. They answer a series of questions and take a geometery challenge in which they calculate how much of a volcano has been blown away. Make sure to explore several...
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Creating a Legend

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a legend that explains the existence of Mount St. Helens. They discuss how natural occurences often have no clear explanation. After listening to legends concerning the formation of Mt. St. Helens, students create their...
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Hazards: Third Grade Lesson Plans and Activities

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Learners discover hazards related to volcanoes and predict the effects these hazards have on people and land. As blossoming geologists explore various volcanic eruptions, including the hazards associated with them, they create their own...
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It's About Time

Volcanos and the Atmosphere

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
In the summer of 1815, snow fell every month in New England. Was this related to the volcanic eruption of Tambora in Indonesia earlier in the year? Young scientists design their own experiments to research the long-term effect a volcanic...
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Volcano

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource will blow your mind! Young mathematicians estimate the rate of volcanic lava flow by watching a video. They apply the rate formula to determine how long it would take the lava to reach a city. Let's hope everyone gets out...
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Volcano

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this volcano worksheet, students use the riddle key to decode the answer to a question about the largest volcano. Students write the letters in the blank and read the answer.
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Volcanoes: Shield or Composite?

For Students 5th - 8th
In this volcano worksheet, students read a 1-paragraph selection regarding shield and composite volcanoes and then identify the 8 errors in the paragraph.
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Soil and Volcanoes

For Students 7th - 8th
In this soil and volcano worksheet, students read information about soil and volcanoes and answer questions provided. Students also build model of a volcano and participate in soil activities.
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Volcanoes

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students participate in groups to complete a volcano project. In this volcano instructional activity, students work in groups to follow directions and create a working, model volcano. Students then answer discussion questions about their...

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