Volcano Day and WebQuest

Volcanoes....Eruption Day and Web Activity
Mrs. Vachereau's and our class studied volcanoes in great depth. We learned about the main types of volcanoes...how they form, where they form, and how they are monitored. Students used this knowledge to build models of volcanoes and reported on them. We shared this knowledge on our Eruption Day. Students were more than happy to use baking soda and vinegar as well as other concoctions to spew lava of their own !!!!	Volcano Day... When you conjure up an image of a volcano, what do you see? Do you envision a huge, menacing conical mountain spewing masses of lava? These conical shaped volcanoes are known as composite volcanoes. Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Fujiyama, and Mount St. Helens are composite volcanoes. Another easily recognized type is the cinder cone volcano which consists of mostly loose, grainy cinders and almost no lava. These are small volcanoes which are about a mile across and up to one thousand feet high. They have steep sides and usually a small crater. A third type is one that is found in Hawaii among other places. It is known as the shield volcano. This type can be hundreds of miles across and many tens of thousands of feet high. This type has low slopes and has large craters at their summits. One activity we engaged in during our Geology Station Time was to explore a lesson developed by our UVM student, Mr. L. and Mrs. Gurwicz. To learn more about this, click on Web Activity in our title.