Explosive Volcanoes
As a class, watch the first video below. This is a reminder of the structure of the earth and plate boundaries as well as some awesome footage of eruption volcanoes.
Now, put on your headphones and watch the second 360° video below on your computer. Use your mouse to look all around you on the team's journey to the heart of an active volcano! Not one for the faint hearted.
Now, put on your headphones and watch the second 360° video below on your computer. Use your mouse to look all around you on the team's journey to the heart of an active volcano! Not one for the faint hearted.
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What Are Volcanoes?
Objective: To understand what a volcano is and how they might be dangerous.
Task 1 - Watch the first YouTube video to the right. This gives examples of the destructive power of volcanoes. Discuss how they could affect people around the world.
Task 2 - Watch the second YouTube video below and pause after 0.38 seconds.
Write down how the different people in this image would feel as they saw this eruption hurtling down the valley towards them. Write your thoughts on this worksheet.
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Where Are The Volcanoes?
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Task 3 - Complete the activities set out on the worksheet above. If you need to see the maps more clearly, you can click on both of them above and they will enlarge.
Task 4 - Complete the features of a volcano worksheet below.
The Three Types Of Volanoes
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The images above show the three different types of volcanoes that are found around the world. The first one is perhaps the most famous example of a volcano and we recognise its shape and form. The other two are less well know but still produce some spectacular eruptions. The shape and size of the volcano is linked to the type of lava that is emitted from the volcano. Runny or sticky lava will solidify at different rates and produce very different shaped volcanoes.
Task 1 - Use a printed out copy of the worksheet in the blue tab below to conduct some independent Google research into the three different types of volcanoes.
Task 2 - Homework
Click on the Google Earth logo to the right to access a tour of 10 of the most famous volcanoes on Earth. You will see that most of the volcanoes on the tour are a very specific type of volcano (see Task 1 work).
Take some time to explore each of the volcanoes and then choose one that interests you. Create a fact sheet all about the volcano and include the following things:
The type of volcano. The location. An eruption event. Images of the volcano (with sources). A map.
Deadly Killers - Pyroclastic Flows
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Starter: Watch the video above.
Task 1 - Find out about a pyroclastic flow. Use this sheet to record your information.
a. What causes them?
b. How fast can they travel?
c. How hot can they be inside?
d. What effect to they have on the human body?
Task 2 - Find out about the most famous pyroclastic flow of all time. The place is Pompeii and the volcano is called Vesuvius. Use this PowerPoint to help you.
Choice 1 - Using this famous diary written by an eyewitness and the video beneath, create a piece of artwork that shows the effect of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Pompeii.
Choice 2 - Create a fact sheet using this template about the eruption and what tourists can see today if they visit Pompeii today.
Why Do We Live So Close To Volcanoes?
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Objective: To find out why people live close to violent volcanoes.
Task 1 - Check out the Google Streetview to the right. It is taken on a residential toad in Zafferana. Zoom in and you will see the craters on the summit of Etna. Click here for a Google Map. Task 2 - Click this link to see what Mount Etna is doing today! Active or Dormant? Can you see any sign of life? Task 3 - Watch the first YouTube video above. When it has finished, complete this worksheet carefully. Go back to the Google Map above and zoom out until you can see the town of Zafferana Etnea. Found it? Here's the story. Zafferana Etnea lies about 30km south east of the crater of Mount Etna. Since 1992, the town and its inhabitants have been under threat from the volcano erupting. Check out the two videos beneath. They give you an idea why Etna worries the town so much. In the past 20 years many people have left the town and never returned. They have been too scared to stay. Mount Etna has been dormant since May 2019 and Luigi, the mayor of Zafferana, has asked for your help.
"I need to get my people back to Zafferana. How can I get them back? Many people are scared of the volcano but it is very important in many ways. Help me to fill empty houses and make this town alive again" Your Mission Inform people of the potential BENEFITS of living close to Mount Etna and how they can stop the lava from future eruptions from damaging their homes. Use the worksheet in task 3 to help you. You can present these in one of the following ways: 1. Poster 2. Radio Broadcast 3. Short Film 4. Live Act You will only be paid if people move back to Zafferana so think carefully about how you are going to persuade them. Extra Resources - Click here for the BBC page on Mount Etna. Study this page carefully and perhaps watch 'Active Mount Etna'. |
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Mount Etna Newspaper Task
Task 1 - Click here to access the Etna Booklet. Study this carefully. This shows you what has been done in the past to try to save vulnerable communities from the lava flows.
Task 2 - Read this article and listen to this audio report about the attempts to divert the lava away from populated areas of the volcano.
Task 3 - Use this framework as well as the two videos below (second video up to 3:50) to create a newspaper article about the recent eruption of Mount Etna in 2019. You may want to make reference to previous eruptions and what happened then.
Stop Check: An example of good practice is here.
Task 2 - Read this article and listen to this audio report about the attempts to divert the lava away from populated areas of the volcano.
Task 3 - Use this framework as well as the two videos below (second video up to 3:50) to create a newspaper article about the recent eruption of Mount Etna in 2019. You may want to make reference to previous eruptions and what happened then.
Stop Check: An example of good practice is here.
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Want To See More?
Watch the video below (on the right) from 36 minutes until the end. Find out what happens when a famous volcanologist gets a bit too up close and personal to Mount Etna!
Build Your Own Volcano
Objective: To contruct a 3D volcano that contains annotated labels and shows some of the reasons why people live so close to volcanoes.
Starter: Click here to be taken to a virtual volcano constructing site. Spend 10 minutes exploring volcanoes and then set off your own!!
Task 1 - Click here to download the volcano outline. Follow the instructions carefully to label, cut and then create your 3D volcano
Task 2 - Create a suitable base for the volcano and add some features to the surrounding area. Can you remember why so many people live so close to volcanoes? Perhaps you could even include a volcanologist studying it from a safe distance! See the examples below from last year. Wow!
Other resources - Click here
Starter: Click here to be taken to a virtual volcano constructing site. Spend 10 minutes exploring volcanoes and then set off your own!!
Task 1 - Click here to download the volcano outline. Follow the instructions carefully to label, cut and then create your 3D volcano
Task 2 - Create a suitable base for the volcano and add some features to the surrounding area. Can you remember why so many people live so close to volcanoes? Perhaps you could even include a volcanologist studying it from a safe distance! See the examples below from last year. Wow!
Other resources - Click here
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