Engineer
You have just been hired as a volcanologist in Hawaii. Unlike most weather changes,
volcanoes have had no successful warning systems that are used worldwide. It is also
very tricky to pinpoint the exact time a volcano will erupt. Your first assignment as an
engineer is to create a warning system to help warn Hawaii resistance that a volcano is
getting ready to erupt so they can act accordingly.
You will need to research warning signs of a volcano that is ready to erupt. Then you will
need to research other ways that volcanologists have studied these warning signs. You
need to draw a design of your warning system with labels explaining what its parts do and
why you created it.
1. Research Requirements:
_____ local effects that would occur if the volcano were to erupt
_____ warning signs of volcanic eruptions
_____ tools used to monitor volcanoes
_____ reasons why a volcano might erupt
2. Project Requirements:
_____ design drawing of your warning system
_____ your system must include at least 2 current tool that are used to monitor volcanoes
_____ labels describing each part of your design
_____ explanation telling about the warning signs of volcanoes that your system detected
_____ explanation of what would happen if and when the volcano erupts
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Volcanologist
Congratulations! You have just received your first job as a volcanologist! You have to move
to Medicine Lake, California where there has been an active volcano for 500,000 years.
The eruptions were gentle rather than explosive like Mount St. Helens. This volcano has
not erupted since 900 years ago. However, other volcanologists are worried that it is
becoming time for it to erupt soon.
When you arrive on the site of the volcano you start to see warning signs that the volcano
is getting close to erupting. You use two of your favorite instruments to gather data. The
data you collect proves that the volcano will erupt soon, so you decide to take the next
action.
Create journal entries telling about the warning signs you saw, the instruments you used
and what you told people in the surrounding area about this volcano.
1. Research Requirements:
_____ warning signs of volcanic eruption
_____ tools used to study volcanoes
_____ what people are told to do during an eruption
2. Project Requirements:
_____ description of warning signs you saw on Day #1 entry
_____ description of tools you used on Day #2 entry
_____ description of you what you told the people in area on Day #3 entry
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Travel Agent
You are a travel agent who is currently helping a family plan a cruise to Alaska. The cruise will
take 10 days and stop in several places in Alaska during those 10 days. One of the stops
scheduled is the Augustine Island in southwestern Cook Inlet in the Kenai Peninsula Borough
of south-central coastal Alaska. On this island is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the
United States. It is your job to make sure your clients stay safe, so you will also want to give
your clients some information regarding volcanoes. Some useful information they will want to
know is: what would happen if there was an eruption in Alaska before departure? Meaning, if
there was an eruption in Europe; would if affect the cruise departure or flights heading to the
ship’s departure port?
Create a brochure of the warning signs, effects both locally and at a distance, and causes of
volcanoes for these travelers that they can take with them to stay safe.
1. Research Requirements:
____ warning signs of a volcano
____ local effects of a volcanic eruption
____ distance effects of a volcanic eruption
____ causes of eruption
2. Project Requirements:
____ warning signs on one panel of your brochure
____ local effects on one panel of your brochure
____ distance effects on one panel of your brochure
____ causes of eruption on one panel of your brochure
____ volcanic-things that could effect cruise on one panel of your brochure
____ attractive cover for your Alaskan cruise
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Traveling CEO
You are a CEO for a multimillion-dollar company. Because of your profession, you are
constantly traveling around the world to have meetings and oversee other branches of your
business. This week you were in Portland, Oregon. Your hotel was about 10 miles away from
Mt. St. Helens. After your meetings one day, you heard a news broadcast that Mt. St. Helens is
showing signs that it will erupt. You send an email home telling your family what the volcano
is doing.
A few days later, the volcano erupts! Scared, you begin to research what are the immediate
effects of being this close to an active volcano. You send another email home to your family
telling them what you find regarding your dangers of being so close to an erupting volcano.
A week later, Mt. St. Helens is still erupting; but you are now in Atlanta, Georgia (which is
2,166 miles away from the erupting volcano) for meetings. After your scare of being so close
to an erupting volcano, you do research to see if you are in danger being in Atlanta while the
volcano is still erupting. You again, send an email home telling your family about the dangers
(if any) of being in Atlanta while the volcano in Oregon is still erupting.
1. Research Requirements:
____ immediate and local effects of eruption
____ effects of an eruption far from the volcano
____ warning signs before an eruption
____ causes of an eruption
2. Project Requirements:
____ warning signs in your first email home
____ causes of eruption in your second email home
____ local effects also in your second email home
____ distance effects in your third email home
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