Watching Rangitoto erupt – Student Activity
In this activity students, read the book Rangitoto and write their own story about living close to an erupting volcano.
Teaching and Learning Approaches
Student activities are the main feature of this collection, along with a variety of resources for teachers to use in exploring Volcanoes.
List of Teaching and Learning Approaches resource items
-
-
Lost – a hot rock – Student Activity
In this activity, students examine an igneous rock and synthesise these observations into a poster that includes characteristic features of igneous rocks.
-
Making lava fudge – Student Activity
In this activity, students make chocolate fudge (or observe it being made) using three slightly different combinations of ingredients to model the different proportions of minerals in basalt, andesite and rhyolite rocks.
-
Volcano hunt – Student Activity
In this computer-based activity, students work in pairs or threes to find New Zealand volcanoes using a map and Google Earth.
-
Home disaster kit – Student Activity
In this activity, students select items to include in a home disaster kit in case of emergency and calculate how much food and water they will need to include in a disaster kit for their family.
-
Identifying volcanic rocks – Student Activity
In this activity, students watch a video describing different types of volcanic rocks and then match the chemical composition and type of volcanic eruption each rock is associated with.
-
Who’s on your team? – Student Activity
In this activity, students work in small groups to select a 6-member disaster response team from a set of 12 biography cards.
-
Growing crystals – Student Activity
In this activity, students grow crystals, learn that they are formed when solutions cool and study their characteristics (regular shape and lustre).
-
Making a core sample – Student Activity
In this activity, students use (or observe the teacher using) a small coring tool to make a core sample from some available waste ground and examine the resulting sample for features such as particle size, colour variation and layering.
-
Making a model cinder cone – Student Activity
In this activity, students make a simple model of a cinder cone by pouring a granular material such as rice bubbles into a conical pile and measuring its slope. This is then related to the shape and formation of cinder cone volcanoes.
