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Volcano Unit

We actually spanned this unit over a couple months. I would suggest searching on Google for Free Volcano Lapbooks… there are all sorts of versions !! For example on Homeschool Share HERE. I honestly think we found random facts everywhere but here are the main resources! Good luck! 

WORKSHEETS:

  • On Education.com under my School folder HERE are some of my worksheets
  • Colouring page on Twsty Noodle HERE.
  • Crayola mini book HERE.
  • FisherPrice colouring page for little guys HERE.
  • ABCteach.com HERE.

FACT PAGES:

  • Facts about the Richter Scale on Buzzle HERE.
  • Covering Earthquakes on Weather Wiz Kids HERE.
  • All about a more current eruption in Japan that was unannounced HERE thanks to Live Science

BOOKS:

  • Magic Tree House #13: Vacation Under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne
  • Magic Tree House Fact Finder #14 Ancient Rome and Pompeii by Mary Pope Osborne
  • Volcanoes by Seymour Simon
  • Danger! Volcanoes by Seymour Simon
  • Volcanoes: Nature’s Incredible Fireworks by David L. Harrison
  • Volcano and Earthquake DK Eyewitness Books
  • Volcanoes by Leslie Dinaberg
  • Volcano by Christopher Lampton (A Disaster! Book)
  • Volcanoes by Jeremy Caplan
  • Volcanoes! Anne Schreiber
  • Questions & Answers  About Planet Earth by Capella
  • Volcano by Patricia Lauber
  • Into the Volcano by Donna O’Meara

VIDEOS:

    • Volcano (DK Eyewitness) HERE
    • Magic School Bus: Blows It’s Top HERE
    • Bill Nye The Science Guy: Volcanoes HERE

The basic baking soda and vinegar combination was great to show volcano eruption add in a balloon and give the idea of how the gasses move… or just throw the whole thing in the tub and make fizz over and over again! We had a lovely science kit as well that Grandma and Grandpa Reinsch sent us that we used in the end to build our own volcano. Those can be found EVERYWHERE! Ours was a plaster of Paris version.101_9727 101_9730