CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Supervolcanoes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Supervolcanoes are unimaginably large volcanoes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Volcano
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how volcanoes are created.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Mt. Pinatubo and the Atmosphere
This lesson explores the impact of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere. Students will analyze three types of visual information: a graph of aerosol optical depth v. global temperature, a global map with temperature anomalies, and an ash...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Building the Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is an excellent model for learning about Earth's rock formations. Students will look at fossils and the differences in layers to understand how the Earth changed over time. Resources included are detailed instructions...
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: Petroglyph National Monument
Embrace the unique Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico through this detailed resource featuring the Rio Grand Rift, petroglyphs, lesson plans and much more.
Other
New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources: Lite Geology
Lite Geology is a publication for teachers that is available intermittently and can be freely downloaded. Previous issues going back to 1992 are also posted. Lots of information about geology, particularly in New Mexico, along with...
Peace Corps
Peace Corps: This Is Tanzania
Learners will learn about the history of volcanoes and wildlife in Tanzania in this lesson plan.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Yellowstone! A National Park on a Hot Spot
A lesson plan with an accompanying PowerPoint learning module for students where they learn about the volcanic features of Yellowstone National Park. They use spreadsheets to make various calculations, such as the volume of material...
Other
Chicago Science Group: Earth's Changing Surface Virtual Field Trip
Join Science Companion author Belinda Basca and her family as they explore the land forms in Hawaii from a helicopter! Includes suggestions for teacher lessons, student activities, and web resources.
abcteach
Abcteach: Earth
[Free Registration/Login Required] Ready made worksheets for any earth science unit on water cycles, the layers of the earth, or volcanoes.
Other
The Geography Site
The Geography Site offers many links for your geography research. Links offered are to physical geography, human geography, environment, online lessons, and much more.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Effusive Eruptions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Effusive eruptions are relatively mild eruptions that produce lava flows.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Writing to Support the Theory of Plate Tectonics
This lesson helps young scholars use images that depict earthquakes, seafloor ages, topography, and volcanoes, and then make a scientific argument supporting the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Colossal Consequences of Supervolcanoes
In 1816, Europe and North America were plagued by heavy rains, odd-colored snow, famines, strange fogs and very cold weather well into June. Though many people believed it to be the apocalypse, this "year without a summer" was actually...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How scientists can predict volcanic eruptions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Effusive Eruptions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Effusive eruptions are relatively mild eruptions that produce lava flows.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It Happened to Me: Eruption of Mount St. Helens
During this lesson, students navigate different websites to become familiar with volcanoes. Students then describe a volcanic eruption by creating their own stories about what it was like during the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Discovering Plate Boundaries
A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help learners 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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context
In this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Madagascar: What Are Tectonic Plates and How Are They Moving?
This lesson teaches students about tectonic plates, plate boundaries, and their role in earthquakes and volcanoes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plate Tectonics Intro
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will take several class periods. This lesson begins to look at how the different landforms are created. There will be two follow up lessons - one on volcanoes and one on mountains.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth Layers
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will recognize that changes that occur in the layers of the Earth (volcanoes and earthquakes) are a result of forces acting upon it.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Landforms
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students analyze the formation of lakes and volcanoes in depth. Students read Living Library references to locate, select, and make use of relevant information.