Supervolcanoes! -- Issue 12 -- March 20-26, 2010

This week's standards:
Students understand changes in the Earth and sky. (Science: Earth and Space Science)

Activities:
1. Make a poster with newspaper words and pictures of things that are big and powerful.

2. Divide a paper into two columns. Put newspaper words for things that help the Earth in one column. Put newspaper words for things that hurt the Earth in the second column.

3. Find three people in the newspaper who could be helpful if a volcano erupted near your city. Explain your choices.

4. How do supervolcanoes cause harm to (a) forests, (b) people, (c) animals and (d) machinery?

5. Use the Internet to research the volcano nearest to where you live. What is the history of the volcano?

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)