Volcanoes CTY Course Syllabus

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1 Volcanoes CTY Course Syllabus Day 1, Monday Introduction to VACO Students educational and personal goals for the course Get to know each other s names Pre-Test Volcano Identification Hand out syllabus Class/Lab rules Expectation sheets Lab safety sheets Lab write up guidelines Presentation guidelines and journal guidelines Students write in their journal section of their notebooks Ice breakers On a map, students mark and identify as many volcanoes (active or extinct) as they can. Once students have completed this, display a map with all volcanoes pinpointed. Ask students to begin making inferences about why volcanoes exist where they do. Layers of Earth PowerPoint with apple or egg demonstration students produce a diagram of Earth s layers with key facts. Convection Currents and Density Currents Plate Tectonics - How do plates move? Crust: Continental and Oceanic Demo: Density using simulator of convection currents apparatus students take brief notes while making observations and inferences of demo Mantle Plasticity Lab Demo: Convection Cell with wax, metal ball and hot water PowerPoint pictures/video of convection currents in mantle Lecture and rock samples students create a Venn diagram comparing each type of crust

2 Convection Currents and Earth s Layers Reading Volcanoes: Global Perspectives Cartoon interpretation Chapters 1-2 Day 2, Tuesday Convection Cells, Layers of Earth, and Crust Types Ring of Fire, Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, and Plate Boundaries Plate Tectonics and Plate Boundaries Hot Spots Warm up questions on the board Activity: Mapping the Ring of Fire Activity: Plate Tectonic Boundary Stations Demo: Hot spots using window screen with shaving crème students make observations and inferences in notes Mapping the movement of hotspots worksheet Plate Tectonics, Oceanic Islands Hot Spots Activity: Mysteries of the Oceanic Islands Plate Tectonics Mapping the Hawaiian islands lab sheet Reading Read Chapter 3 Topic review Complete any assignments not completed and study for tomorrow s assessment

3 Day 3, Wednesday The Nature of Magma Partial Melting/Fractional Crystallization and Intrusive and Extrusive Rocks PowerPoint on the origins of magma, types, physics and chemistry of melting Demo: Partial melting and fractional crystallization students make observations in their notebooks, followed by debriefing and lecture Silicic and Mafic Rocks Lecture about how to identify each type of rock students use rock samples to complete a T-chart comparing and contrasting the two types of rock Mapping Skills, Bathymetry, and Island Formation Reading Chapter 4 Explaining topographic maps and bathymetry Day 4, Thursday Igneous Rocks and the Rock Cycle PowerPoint of the rock cycle and how igneous rocks are formed Intrusive and Extrusive Rocks Animation of intrusive and extrusive rock formation students examine samples of igneous rocks Igneous Rock Identification How to use identification keys and the various properties to identify in rocks Igneous Rock Identification Experimental Design Diagram (EDD) Nature of Science Activities Igneous Rock stations students practice with lab cards and flow charts Students learn the experimental design diagram process and practice making their own

4 EDD Crystals (Intrusive and Extrusive) Week 1 review Reading Chapter 5 Students create an experiment and complete an EDD to test crystal size and growth Review Game Jeopardy Silent Card Shuffle for Island Stages Day 5, Friday Crystals: Intrusive and Extrusive rocks Bowen s Reaction Series Viscosity and Volcanic Flows Lab: Growing Crystals students make intrusive and extrusive crystals PowerPoint lecture with diagrams, mineral samples are passed around students complete a reading assignment and answer questions Lab: Viscosity students calculate the rate of flow of fluids with a known viscosity in order to determine the viscosity of an unknown fluid Viscosity and temperature and density Hawaiian Lava Flows Stream Flows Finish Viscosity Lab Students watch video clips of lava flows, look at pictures of pahoehoe and A a lava, and take notes on characteristics of the two types of lava Lab students predict best places to build houses around demo volcano based on knowledge of viscosity and flow, build houses in those locations and test.

5 Sunday, Week 2 Conclusion and experimental writing skills Write conclusion for Crystal lab All topics from week 1 Test on Week 1 Rock Lab Practical Volcanology Students complete a KWHL on volcanoes Day 6, Monday Anatomy of a Volcano Volcanic Features and Formations dikes, sills, batholiths, lava tubes Shield Volcanoes their characteristics, formation, mineral and rock content, plate tectonic formation, viscosity, and volatiles PowerPoint lecture students complete diagram on anatomy of a volcano Demo: Gelatin formation students make observations and inferences Lab: Volcano Am I? Composite Volcanoes Movie: National Geographic Composite and Shield Volcanoes Students write comparative papers about composite and shield volcanoes Day 7, Tuesday VEI (Volcanic Explosivity Index) Volcanic monitoring(deformation/seismicity) PowerPoint lecture on VEI Lab: happened at Lake Nyos activity

6 Volcano Hazards, Smog, and Global Climate Change Demo: Volcanic ash in a box Graphing exercise: Calculating the impact of volcanic eruptions on global climate Lab: Ice, Snow, and Volcano Prep for Mt St. Helens Trip Ape Cave Exploration activity Last minute questions Day 8, Wednesday Mt St. Helens Trip Depart 8 AM South Side of Mt. St. Helens Ape Caves, Trail of Two Forests, Lava Canyon, Stratigraphy Viewpoint, Water Sampling Mt St. Helens Trip Settle in to lodge, discuss plans for next day Day 9, Thursday Mt St. Helens Trip Day 2 North Side of Mt. St. Helens Visitor Center Hofstadt Bluffs Johnston Ridge Observatory Return to campus

7 Day 10, Friday Post trip debriefing Journaling, go over worksheets, test water samples taken during trip for mineral content. More trip debriefing NOVA video: Mt. St. Helens: Back from the Dead Mt. St. Helens Lab Activity (students use actual ash samples to explore the geophysical activity of the eruption) More trip debriefing Mt. St. Helens Lab Activity continued Day 11, Monday Hazards and Dangers: Pyroclastic Flows Activity: modeling of Pompeii building collapse Hazards and Dangers : Lahars PowerPoint on causes, dynamics, and destructiveness Lab: Mt. Rainier Lahar Lab Critical Thinking Read and discuss excerpt from Chasing Volcanoes Read Global Perspectives, Ch 14

8 Day 12, Tuesday Negative Volcanic Landforms PowerPoint Lecture on Craters and Calderas Physical and Chemical Weathering Erosion different types, energy and size, examples of features formed in Hawaii Student Performed Demo: Physical and Chemical Weathering PowerPoint lecture students create a diagram comparing each type of weathering Demo: Sedimentator Tubes students make observations and discuss the process of deposition Deposition, Energy, and Particle Size PowerPoint presentation Day 13, Wednesday Extraterrestrial Volcanoes Students research volcanoes on other planets and moons (Venus, Moon, Mars, Io, etc). Extraterrestrial Volcano Brochure Students create brochures for researched volcanoes Humanistic Volcanology Read Chapter 13 in text, discuss volcanic impact on human history, potential impact on future colonization of other planets.

9 Day 14, Thursday Final Projects Field Guides Students create a field guide for their assigned topic based on observations and findings during our field trip Final Projects Field Guide Presentations Day 15, Friday Disaster movie breakdown Volcano disaster movie clips are shown and students are given the opportunity to point out inaccuracies*. After clip activity, students discuss how these inaccuracies affect the public s knowledge of volcanoes, and what can be done to increase awareness of hazards and benefits.