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Overview
Students will plot recent volcanic activity on a world map and look for relationships between volcanoes and plate boundaries.
Objectives
Students will:
- Analyze data for meaning
- Draw conclusions based on observations
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Time:
One 45 minute class period.
Materials
- Computers with Internet access
- World map on which students have previously plotted the earthquakes
- Musical Plates journal/notebook OR
 Student Activity 4 Worksheet
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Teacher Preparation
- Bookmark and become familiar with the features of
- Background Information on the Volcanoes
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Procedure
- Direct students to Core Activity 4 in the Student Activities of this project.
- After students have gone through the lesson on their own, have a group discussion centering on the major concepts of the lesson.
- Volcanic activity is linked to plate-tectonic processes.
- The majority of volcanic eruptions occur along plate boundaries such as the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American plate.
- The majority of earthquakes coincide with regions where there are active volcanoes particularly near continental coasts and mountain systems.
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Assessment Suggestions
- The answers in the students' project
journals / notebooks OR worksheets can be used
for assessment (e.g. Are the answers complete,
accurate, and do they show an understanding of
the lesson concepts?).
Student Activity
The following instructions for Student Activity 4 are printed in the Student Activities section of this web site.
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