BY: Denny Pelley

DATE: 06/15/97
SCHOOL: Speedway High School
CITY/STATE: Speedway, Indiana

PURPOSE:

To enhance learning about volcanoes and the consequences of land, people, plants and animals.

GRADE LEVEL: Sixth - Tenth

GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS ADDRESSED:

• #1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
• #3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places and environments on Earth’s surface.
• #7. The physical processes that shape the Earth’s surface.
• #12. The processes, patterns and functions of human settlement.
• #15. How physical systems affect human systems.
• #17. How to apply geography to interpret the past.
• #18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future. 

MATERIALS REQUIRED:

• - Internet capability
• - Volcano model material

OBJECTIVES:

After this lesson, students will be able to

• 1. identify the different types of volcanoes,
• 2. understand where current active volcanoes exist (on Earth and other planets),
• 3. understand how volcanic areas affect people, plants, animals and the environment (past, present,future), and
• 4. develop and ask intelligent questions to a volcanologist.

PROCEDURES:

1. Pretest students with the following questions to initiate thought and class discussion about volcanoes.

• a) What are three different types of volcanoes ?
• b) Where is the nearest volcano ?
• c) What causes volcanoes ?
• d) Where is the largest past eruption ?
• e) What happens to land, air, plant life and people after an eruption ?
• f) How far away from an volcano are the affects felt ?
• g) What's the temperature inside a volcano ?
• h) Can volcanoes be predicted ?
• i) Where is Mount Saint Helens ?
• j) Where did the world's deadliest eruption take place ?

2. Have the class research volcanoes on the internet to answer the previous questions, while browsing the various sub-titles of the volcano home page.

3. Each group should come up with unique questions to ask a volcanologist via the internet.

4. Students should be able to view live footage of active volcanoes and satellite images.

5. Students should be able to construct a volcano model.

EVALUATION:

Post test using the information from the internet as well as activity grade for volcano model.

RESOURCES:

Home Page of Volcano World: http://Volcano.und.nodak.edu/