Volcano Study Part One

While going for a drive into town, Miss Personality started asking questions about things we were passing in our travels.

Is Mount Maunganui a volcano?

Is it a sleeping one?

What would it look like if it erupted?

How does a volcano erupt?

Which resulted in us discussing our theories it all the way into town :)

So as per usual, when an idea starts developing in my mind, I decided to put together a bit of a Volcano study so that we could both learn more about it.

I tried to come up with as many interesting ways to open up an opportunity for Miss Personality to learn about what she was interested in.

In my researching I found a website that has free downloads of lots of different lap books.

This website has about 350 different lap books and I have used them in the past for many different things.

I found one on volcanoes and decided to incorporate it into our studies.

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/volcanoes.php

 
All these activities include a information sheet, that I asked Miss Personality to read to me, so I could help her pronounce any words she found tricky, and explained what any words mean that were new to her.
Then each information sheet came with an activity.
We try to do an activity once a day, depending on the interest level for the day :)

Then I went on You Tube or the University of You Tube as I have heard some people call it,lol.

I found an episode of The Magic School Bus on volcanoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myUzw7ceO-I

I also found some great short clips on volcanoes.

How volcanoes work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUWdkHPm4os

Formation of volcanic islands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMtuTfAqAbo

Geography Lesson - What is a volcano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgktM2luLok

We also watched some movies on dvd about volcanoes.

And Dante's Peak.

Miss Personality also used minecraft on her ipad to create a volcano and included as much detail as she could. She proudly showed me it when she had finished, showing me the lava, fissures and even showing me the inside of the volcano and magma chambers.

I came up with a card game.

 A set of cards with all the different words that we had come across since we started learning about volcanoes.

 Made another set of cards with the meanings of the words written on them.

 Used the tiles out of our Junior Scrabble board game.

Match the word with the meaning, and then use the scrabble tiles to spell the word.

Then asked her to use some baking paper to trace the out line of New Zealand from a book with maps in it.

Then we used another book we had found in the library about volcanoes in New Zealand to help us find and label the volcanoes on the map.

                                

Since Miss Personality was starting to get a little bored and she isn't a huge fan of writing, mum wrote labels with all the volcano names on them, and Miss Personality glued them to the appropriate place on the map.

She also created a key for her map so she could also mark whether they are dormant, active or extinct.

    

So this is just what we have done so far.

If you are interested in what else we end up doing, please keep following our blog.

TO BE CONTINUED................