Creator: University of Illinois Extension | visit site
Grade Range: 2 - 8
This interactive site focuses on showing and telling students about volcanoes, earthquakes, and glaciers. The text information is also available as audio; many fun activities reinforce the information given on the introductory sites. Because of the dual presentation (oral and written), the site is easy for ESL/ELL students to use as well. One especially interesting activity involves showing students the history of the geologic earth and asks them to imagine squeezing all the earth’s history into one day.
In the Classroom
Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on geology and/or natural disasters on a projector or interactive whiteboard. When a disaster is in the news, use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects in response to their curiosity about the news event. Have ESL/ELL students use this to introduce other students to some possible disasters that occur in their parts of the world. Another option would be to divide students into cooperative learning groups to explore the site. Have them create presentations on different parts of the information found in the site and its activities. Use the information they find as a jumping off place for doing further research on areas that interest them.To show what they have learned from this site, challenge students to create an online graphic to share using Visme, <a href="/single.cfm?id=15508">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Enjoy exploring earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers with your student using this interactive site. Find answers to their questions about natural disasters here.
Tags
weather, volcanoes, plate tectonics, glaciers, earthquakes, earth,