Goal 9 - Volcanos
Goal 9 Prelab
Activity #1
Go to the web site below:
http://kids.discovery.com/games/build-play/volcano-explorer
1. Click on ENTER
2. Find the menu button on the left side.
3. Follow the prompts and rewrite the following tabs in the menu:
a) Global perspective:
b) Volcano types:
c) Inside a volcano:
4. Find the “Build your own volcano and watch it erupt.” Change the settings (mix up high and low, etc.) and click set conditions. Then click
start the eruption and record what happens in your notebook. Build 2 other volcanoes and write down what type of Volcano you built.
Activity #2
Go to the website below:
http://www.channelone.com/news/volcano/
Click on the Volcano Maker and customize 3-5 different settings for each type of volcano’s (shield, composite, cinder cone, lava dome). Make some with violent explosions and some with quiet eruptions. Record what happens in each event with a sentence or sketch. You will have at least 1 sentence or sketch for each
volcano.
Activity #3
Go to the website below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11623708/ns/technology_and_science/t/how-where-volcanoes-arise/#.UHTIr80WdGQ
Be sure and read (and possibly click) each of the pages of the Anatomy of a Volcano. Click the Next button on the upper right hand corner to advance the
page.
1. List the 7 major plates shown.
2. How many active volcanoes are there and where are they located?
3. Where are most of the subduction zones?
4. What happens at a subduction zone? Draw and label the picture.
Activity 4
Go to: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/cycle.html
Read through the section. Click on the words to find the definitions.
List in your notebook the words + definitions:
Rock cycle
Magma
Volcano
Igneous
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Activity 5
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils.shtml
Test each of the 5 rocks with the 4 tests (is it permeable, does it split, does it wear well, does it float)
Try the quiz.
Activity 6
Go to: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/
Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different
rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
Click on BEGIN WITH TYPES OF ROCKS.
Read through the Section.
Click on START YOUR ROCK COLLECTION.
Follow the directions. Make your rock collection.
List the Names of the Rocks in your collection.
Click on Identify Rock types.
Go on to the next chapter. Work your way through How Rock Changes.
Play the Animations. Try Transform the Rock
Move onto the The Rock Cycle. See if you can put the rock cycle map together.
Activity 7
http://www.quia.com/rr/97621.html
Play the game.
Activity 8
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/puzzle/default.html
Try and put the puzzle together.
Go to the web site below:
http://kids.discovery.com/games/build-play/volcano-explorer
1. Click on ENTER
2. Find the menu button on the left side.
3. Follow the prompts and rewrite the following tabs in the menu:
a) Global perspective:
b) Volcano types:
c) Inside a volcano:
4. Find the “Build your own volcano and watch it erupt.” Change the settings (mix up high and low, etc.) and click set conditions. Then click
start the eruption and record what happens in your notebook. Build 2 other volcanoes and write down what type of Volcano you built.
Activity #2
Go to the website below:
http://www.channelone.com/news/volcano/
Click on the Volcano Maker and customize 3-5 different settings for each type of volcano’s (shield, composite, cinder cone, lava dome). Make some with violent explosions and some with quiet eruptions. Record what happens in each event with a sentence or sketch. You will have at least 1 sentence or sketch for each
volcano.
Activity #3
Go to the website below:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11623708/ns/technology_and_science/t/how-where-volcanoes-arise/#.UHTIr80WdGQ
Be sure and read (and possibly click) each of the pages of the Anatomy of a Volcano. Click the Next button on the upper right hand corner to advance the
page.
1. List the 7 major plates shown.
2. How many active volcanoes are there and where are they located?
3. Where are most of the subduction zones?
4. What happens at a subduction zone? Draw and label the picture.
Activity 4
Go to: http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/cycle.html
Read through the section. Click on the words to find the definitions.
List in your notebook the words + definitions:
Rock cycle
Magma
Volcano
Igneous
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rock
Activity 5
Go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils.shtml
Test each of the 5 rocks with the 4 tests (is it permeable, does it split, does it wear well, does it float)
Try the quiz.
Activity 6
Go to: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/
Discover rock secrets through these activities. Create a rock collection as you learn about the three main types of rock, find out how to tell the different
rock types apart, and see how rocks change from one type into another!
Click on BEGIN WITH TYPES OF ROCKS.
Read through the Section.
Click on START YOUR ROCK COLLECTION.
Follow the directions. Make your rock collection.
List the Names of the Rocks in your collection.
Click on Identify Rock types.
Go on to the next chapter. Work your way through How Rock Changes.
Play the Animations. Try Transform the Rock
Move onto the The Rock Cycle. See if you can put the rock cycle map together.
Activity 7
http://www.quia.com/rr/97621.html
Play the game.
Activity 8
http://tapestry.usgs.gov/puzzle/default.html
Try and put the puzzle together.