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Text Set:
Volcanoes
Daniel Ramalho
EDC 448
Dr. Kern
June 1, 2010
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Grade 9
Earth Science
Volcanoes
Guiding Questions:
1.) How can eruptions affect the world?
2.) Why do volcanoes erupt, what is their purpose?
Offline Texts:
Feather, Ralph M., Susan Leach. Snyder, and Dinah Zike. Earth Science. New
York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008. Print.
“Earth Science” is a Basic high school textbook suitable for high school students
of all ages and abilities. This book includes many general topics on volcanoes such as
common rock types, earth layers, fault lines, etc. To increase understanding for every
chapter it includes vocabulary words in bold, clearly defined in the text. Students can
reference back to this book when stumbling on a more difficult text on volcanoes.
Bondar, Barbara. Volcano! Dome of Fire. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 1997.
Print.
Barbara Bondar’s “Volcano! Dome of fire”, is intended for a middle school level
reader, however it boasts many useful fun activities to get the students involved with the
lesson. These activities include short quizzes, inventing your own volcano, study guide
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sheets, and more. This small 32-page book puts the fun in the lesson for the class. It's a
great book for the kinesthetic learners.
Lauber, Patricia. Inquiring into the Theme of Our Changing Earth: Based on
Patricia Lauber's Volcano : the Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens. Logan,
Iowa: Perfection Learning, 1995. Print.
In 36 pages Patricia Lauber shows how the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens
affected thousands while ruining the area near the deadly volcano. Then it shows how
people got together to return everything back to the way it was before. An easy read for a
high school student that gives them a visual of how a volcano affects the landscape and
how difficult recovering from it can be.
Earth Processes. Nashua, NH: Delta Education, 2005. Print.
This 24 page informatory book demonstrates in an easy to read text how
volcanoes work and why they are important to the earth. Showing how the earth recycles
the crust with molten lava from the mantle of the earth why that is important and why
without volcanoes the planet would just be a giant ocean. Most importantly gets the
students thinking how many volcanoes must have erupted since time began.
Online texts
Michaels, Daniel. "European Airlines Chafe at Ash-Cloud Limits - WSJ.com."
Business News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com. 12 May
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2010. Web. 02 June 2010.
<Http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704250104575237821902244464.ht
ml?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird>.
A recent eruption that affected much of the world, is the recently erupted volcano
in Iceland “Eyjafjallaokull”. This volcano cancelled hundreds of flights in multiple
European countries. A short easy article for students, this can show them how a volcano
in one country can affect people in many other countries and show the massive power
one medium sized volcano can have.
Ball, Jessica. "Mount Vesuvius, Italy: Map, Facts, Eruption Pictures, Pompeii."
Geology.com - Earth Science News, Maps, Dictionary, Articles, Jobs. Web. 02 June
2010. <Http://geology.com/volcanoes/vesuvius/>.
Part of the importance of volcanoes is learning about their history. One of the
most famous historical volcanoes is Mount Vesuvius in Italy that destroyed the city of
Pompeii. Jessica Ball inserted detailed pictures of the plate tectonics around Pompeii and
how it created such a devastating volcano. It also shows some graphic photos of
mummified people from the burning ash that fell into the once great city demonstrating
how no empire is even close to as powerful as the forces of nature.
Gill, Victoria. "BBC News - Could Another Icelandic Volcano Erupt Soon?" BBC
NEWS | News Front Page. 10 May 2010. Web. 02 June 2010.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8668604.stm>.
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Demonstrating that the study of volcanoes and other natural disasters is important
to gain student interest. This article is about a probable near future eruption that can
follow the recent eruption in Iceland. Giving students a general idea of how some
volcanoes can be predicted by experts to give warning to people that would be affected,
which can save millions of lives and dollars.
Other media
"Volcanoes : Videos : Discovery Channel : Pyroclastic Flow." Discovery Channel :
Science, History, Space, Tech, Sharks, News. Web. 02 June 2010.
<http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/volcano-video/>.
The Discovery channel online has many great videos on many natural disasters,
and specific parts of these disasters. One part of volcanoes that can’t be pictured by
words or even pictures is a volcanoes’ pyroclastic flow. Pyroclastic flows are huge
extremely fast clouds of smoke moving with incredibly high temperatures race down
volcanoes during some eruptions destroying everything in its path. These flows are what
would kill and destroy the most during an eruption. Discovery Channels “Pyroclastic
Flow” 2-3 minute video leaves people with their mouths open, especially those students
who love destruction.
"Hawaiian Volcano." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Itn, 08 Mar. 2008. Web. 02
June 2010.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=2TVLUBRfHgM&feature=related>.
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When one hears about Hawaii one of the first things that comes to mind is
volcanoes. This youtube video is a short 1-2 minute amazing film of a flowing Hawaiian
volcano that left many people abandoning their homes. After learning about all the types
of volcanoes I would use a short “cool” video like this to see if the students can identify
the type of volcano, testing their learning in another attention grabbing video.
The Magic School Bus: Blow Its Top. Scholastic 1994.
“The Magic School Bus” is a series of 30-minute cartoon movies that go through
scientific adventures on their “magic school bus”. A film like this can be useful if the
lesson was finished earlier then anticipated or for a substitute teacher to pop in and play
on a teacher’s day of absence. Targeted to young children, Mrs. Frizzle’s (Character in
the movie) Magic School Bus dives down into all the parts of a volcano and actually
throws out a lot of factual information, all while keeping the audience feeling like they’re
watching cartoons.