San Diego State University
San Diego State University: How Volcanoes Work
An educational resource for educators discussing the science behind volcanoes and their processes. This website provides information on eruption dynamics, eruption products, eruption types, historical eruptions, and volcano landforms....
Center for Educational Technologies
Center for Educational Technologies: Exploring the Environment: Volcanoes
Learn about volcanoes and apply what you know to making decisions about how to handle real world situations. You will find lots of supporting materials for these activities.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory
This comprehensive page discusses the Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse dinosaur extinction debate. It was written by paleontologist, professor, and scientist Dr. Dewey McLean.
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Mountain Building
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of how mountains are formed. Inquiry-based exploration of mountain building includes the rock cycle, mountain formation, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, rocks, minerals, and...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Explore Nature: Views: Volcanism: Embark on a Journey
A journey into the depths of a volcano teaches students about volcanic rocks, eruptions, features, and locations. Also find out how volcanologists monitor activity and conduct scientific research on eruptions.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Change Is My Game
Discover the ways in which the Earth's surface is always changing and what causes those changes through reference materials and a collection of activities.
Other
Mars Quest Online: Martian Volcanoes
Get all of the facts and experience interactive exercises featuring the volcanoes found on Mars .
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: This Dynamic Planet
Research and explore past earthquake and volcanic activity on this interactive world map. User can manipulate which notable events and other map characteristics to view depending on the type of study being done.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Exploring Earth's Seismicity
This sequence is an introduction to plate tectonics using evidence from topographical maps, earthquake location and depth, and volcano location using the Seismic Explorer model to investigate patterns of earthquake data and to infer the...
PBS
Pbs: Earth Science Exploration
An earth science collection where students can explore earthquakes, volcanoes, and more natural phenomena. The collection uses videos and interactive activities to investigate our dynamic planet and earth systems.
BBC
Bbc: Cbbc Newsround Guides: Volcanoes
Learn about the cause, types, and effects of volcanoes in this guide.
Swiss Educ
Swiss Educ.: Stromboli Online: Mt. St. Helens
Come along on a virtual tour of Mt. St. Helens with the Stromboli Online Team as they take you along with them to view how life has returned to the mountain after its horrific explosion. Users need to navigate the site using the links on...
Oregon State University
Volcano World: Krakatau, Sundra Strait
Maps and great graphics of Krakatau. Learn about the size and formation of Krakatau. Find out the last time Krakatau erupted. Also, links to recent photos.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Io, Moon of Jupiter
Statistics and general information about the volcanic moon of Jupiter. Good comparison, with graphics, of Io's volcanoes and Earthly geysers.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Impact of Natural Disasters on the Earth
Through demonstrations and other research, learners explore the impact of various natural disasters on the earth. The disasters include floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Polar Discovery: Live From the Poles: Exp 3: The Penguins and Lava Flows
Travel on an expedition to Antarctica to see the Ross Sea through the eyes of Adelie penguins, and then discover the geology of 300,000-year-old lava flows high on Mount Morning.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Igneous Rocks Model
Students use samples of four different types of igneous rocks to observe differences in texture, color, and grain size, and then make inferences about the relative cooling histories and silica content associated with each magma type.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: Volcanologists
With the help of GEOLogic puzzles, learners are asked to resolve how many days each of several volcanologists spent at a volcano and what day they started for the volcano.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Plate Boundaries
A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help students discover the processes that occur at plate tectonic boundaries. The lesson is based on the jigsaw concept, mixing the students to work in different groups during...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hotspot Lesson: Mantle Plumes
A lesson that explains a theory on magma generation at hotspots called the mantle plume theory. The goal of this lesson is to introduce learners to a theory that scientists are actively trying to prove or refute. Through this, students...
University of Hawai'i
The Hawai`i Space Grant Consortium: Volcanology Activity
There are 5 experiments with teacher and student pages. EXCELLENT hands on experiments. Young scholars can learn how lava flows, lava layering and viscosity.
University of Hawai'i
University of Hawaii: Hawaii Center for Volcanology
This is the home page for the Hawaii Center for Volcanology. Look through this site and virtually visit the different volcanoes in Hawaii. Also provides a description of the formation of the Hawaiian Islands from volcanic activity.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Energia Del Planeta
Find out about the energy inside our planet. Where does it come from? How does it work? What are the effects?
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution: Scientists at the Smithsonian
This is a collection of video interviews with twenty Smithsonian scientists who work in a scientific areas as vastly different as measuring the moon and figuring out what kinds of birds collide with aircraft. An interesting way to...