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Pbs Learning Media: Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption Instructional VideoPbs Learning Media: Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption Instructional Video
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PBS
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
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Lexile Measures
1260L
Instructional Video

Pbs Learning Media: Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption

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This video segment adapted from NOVA relates the dramatic story of vulcanologists trying to predict the timing of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Essay and discussion questions as well as related links follow.

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Concepts

volcanic eruptions, volcanoes

Additional Tags

prediction of volcanic eruption, prediction volcanoes, seismometers, volcanic eruption prediction, 1991 mount pinatuba volcano, mount pinatubo, pbs learningmedia: mount pinatubo: predicting a volcanic eruption, teachers' domain, wgbh, historic eruptions

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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