Teacher to Teacher 
In this section, we want to provide a place for teachers to show what they have done to teach their students about volcanoes. By providing a place for others to show what they have done or plan to do, we hope to inspire and provide practical information for teachers who want to teach about volcanoes in their own class.
We hope to continually add to this page with YOUR experiences. If you use VW and teach (or plan to) about volcanoes, we'd love to post your ideas so that others can see - teacher to teacher - what works and what doesn't.
Sixth grade students at Monroeville, Indiana Elementary recently did a variety of volcano related projects under the direction of Wade Oliver.
Mr. Oliver's combined lesson included research, reports, diagrams and ultimately model building with modeling clay, sand, gravel, glue, water, and soil!
Click here for more pictures and a full description of this project.
For a second year, Gwen Hodge, a third grade teacher at England Elementary School in England, Arkansas completed an exciting project on volcanoes with her class. Students made models, wrote reports, and did oral presentations on their volcanoes after which they were allowed to take them all outside and 'erupt' them. "Everyone in the school enjoyed this project," Gwen said, "Many teachers brought their entire classes down to our room to see the volcanoes."
Virginia Levy and The Sunshine Friends at Greenzaid ECC, B'nai Tzedek, Potomac, MD recently made an exciting volcano eruption!!
Hudson Middle School 6th grade recently did a volcano model project.
Click here to see some examples of the models the students created.
Adam Wichterle, a teacher from the Czech Republic, provided Volcano World with this picture set of his class building and erupting a large volcano. Thanks Adam!! Great Work!
Here is a philosophical
discussion
of how one teacher - Scott Johnson, a member of the VolcanoWorld development
team - plans to use VolcanoWorld in his 5/6th grade classroom. Specific lesson
plans like those listed below could be components of Scott's general plan.
Let us know how you might use VW in your classroom.
- EVACUATE!
This first lesson
plan is included in Volcanoes - A Living
Laboratory, which is a collaborative project of the USDA Forest Service
and Washington State Education District 112 who sponsors the
Mount St. Helens section of VolcanoWorld.
We would like to know what you thought of
each of our exercises, and we will publish here in VolcanoWorld a
summary of the students' plan to evacuate. We have provided facilities
at the end of each exercise for you to send us your (students') plan.
Other Sources of Lesson Plans
- The UKESCC is a joint venture involving nearly 50 Earth Science departments in Universities and colleges throughout the UK. Its main aim is to produce
courseware (computer-aided learning material) for use on Macintosh and PC
computers that is widely applicable and can be integrated into existing
undergraduate courses.
- The geo-courseware mailing list:
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