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For Saturday:

Lesson Plan (due Saturday)

As a final project, you will be expected to adapt some activity from the class to the appropriate
level for your classroom and to prepare a lesson plan. This should be a lesson plan for a single
day or perhaps a couple of days, and you should prepare a separate discussion write-up on the
questions listed below. Those of you who are not in the teaching professions can modify these
questions to encompass a public outreach or service learning activity.
1. Is the level of the activity appropriate for my students?
a. This is an activity that I created for my 7th grade students this year. By this time

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students should be able to quickly navigate the Internet, complete a data table, and
analyze data for trends and patterns.
What teaching standards does the activity match?
a. SC.7.E.6.2 - Identify the patterns within the rock cycle and relate them to surface
events (weathering and erosion) and sub-surface events (plate tectonics and mountain
building).
b. SC.7.E.6.5 - Explore the scientific theory of plate tectonics by describing how the
movement of Earth's crustal plates causes both slow and rapid changes in Earth's
surface, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building.
c. SC.912.E.6.3 - Analyze the scientific theory of plate tectonics and identify related
major processes and features as a result of moving plates.
What misconceptions will the activity have to address?
a. From http://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/earths-changing-surface/commonmisconceptions-about-weathering-erosion-volcanoes-and-earthquakes
i. Volcanoes are randomly located across the earths surface.
ii. Volcanoes are found only on land.
iii. Volcanoes are found only in hot climates.
iv. All volcanoes erupt violently.
Within the activity, what are likely places where students may become confused, and what
am I going to do to prepare for that?
a. Some students will become frustrated while collecting information. Not all of the
information is obvious.
i. Have a help sheet available with some tips.
b. Students may also be confused when it comes to the type of magma. The magma type
is typically names for the rock that it forms. Andesitic magma cools to form andesite.
i. Have students look back in their notebook to their igneous rock lab to review
the different types of igneous rocks.
Where will this activity fit within my curriculum?
a. The volcano unit follows a unit about continental drift and plate tectonics. Students
should come in knowing about the interior structure and processes of Earth. Students
will also know about the different types of plate boundaries.

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Volcano Locations and Characteristics


Objective(s):
1. Discover patterns in the locations of volcanoes.
2. Find relationships among the location of a volcano, its type, magma silica content, and
explosiveness.
Grade(s): 6-12
Time Span: 2-3 days
Florida Standards:
SC.7.E.6.2 - Identify the patterns within the rock cycle and relate them to surface events
(weathering and erosion) and sub-surface events (plate tectonics and mountain building).
SC.7.E.6.5 - Explore the scientific theory of plate tectonics by describing how the movement of
Earth's crustal plates causes both slow and rapid changes in Earth's surface, including volcanic
eruptions, earthquakes, and mountain building.
SC.912.E.6.3 - Analyze the scientific theory of plate tectonics and identify related major
processes and features as a result of moving plates.

Students

Teacher

Engage

Students should answer the following


questions in their notebook to the best
of their knowledge.
1. Where do volcanoes typically form?
Is there a pattern?
2. Are all volcanoes the same? Explain.

Students should be encouraged to


provide any answer. Being correct is not
important yet. Have the students discuss
their answers with each other before
discussing them as a class, but do not
provide them with a definitive answer
yet.

Explore

Students will complete the Volcano


Locations and Characteristics table
and map and look for
relationships/patterns in the data.
Students can do the entire table and
map on their own or can be assigned a
few volcanoes from the list and share
their data with a group. (Sharing data
makes the activity two days instead of
three.)
Help Link:
http://volcano.si.edu/search_volcano.cf
m
Wikipedia was used to determine the

Direct students to helpful website and


encourage cooperation and sharing of
data.
Once students have completed their
table and map, ask them to look for as
many relationships/patterns as they can
among the different columns. They
should record their thoughts and
questions in their notebooks.

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amount of silica in a particular magma


type it the percentage was not given on
the Smithsonian site.
Explain

Contribute to a class list of


relationships and patterns in the data.

Have students create a class list of


relationships/pattern they found in the
data. Here are some possible starters if
they get stuck.
Boundary Type - Volcano Type
Magma Type - Silica %
Silica % - Eruption Type

Elaborate

Complete the viscosity activity.

Either complete the viscosity activity


(Magma Lab) as a class demonstration
or have groups of students complete the
activity. The activity involves blowing
through a straw into three beakers of
dish soap with different amounts of salt
added to it. The dish soap represents
magma and the salt represent the silica.
The soap with more salt should become
more viscous and more difficult to blow
into. Since the gases cannot easily
escape, the pressure will build until a
bubble violently explodes and ejects
the contents of the beaker. WEAR
GOGGLES!!! The beaker without salt
should be easy to blow into and not
create such explosive bubbles.

Evaluate

Complete an Exit Ticket.

Give students an Exit Ticket with the


prompt Imagine you have found an
Earth-like planet and find what appears
to be a volcano near the coast of one the
alien oceans. What could you infer
about this volcano and the planet on
which it was found?

Notes

The Magma Lab can be complete on its own over the course of an entire 50minute class.

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