This is
a short research assignment designed for fifth grade students to find
information about volcanoes. The websites are already bookmarked. The students
must read the information or watch the videos in order to answer the basic
questions about this natural phenomenon.
Volcano
Data Collection Sheet
My Name: ___________________________________ Date: _______________________
Directions: Click on the website shown, search for the answers to the
questions that follow, and write them neatly on the blanks of your printed
copy.
1. What is the hot, molten rock
called that comes out of a volcano? ______________________________
2. A _____________________ is a
small hole inside the crater of a volcano that releases gases.
3. There are ________ active
volcanoes around the world above water and _____________ under water.
4. The lower 48 states have about
_________ volcanoes while Alaska alone has about _________.
5. List 3 ways volcanoes are
helpful to people:
a. ____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
c.____________________________________________________________________
6. List 3 types of volcanoes:
a.
_______________________________________
b. _______________________________________
c.
_______________________________________
7. Which type of volcano is Mount
St. Helens in Washington? ____________________
8. List one of the ways scientists
can monitor volcanic activity and help warn people if trouble is coming:
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Resources:
Thanks for the use of all this great information!
Pearson, K. (n.d.). Volcano
Webquest @ Kirk's Site. Retrieved from
http://myplace.frontier.com/~kprimary/edunits/kirkvolcanoquest/volcanohome.htm
Coexisting with volcanoes.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/archive/2002/02_12_05.html
General Facts About
Volcanoes | Scholastic.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/general-facts-about-volcanoes
Annenberg Media -- Volcanoes
- Forecasting. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.learner.org/interactives/volcanoes/forecast.html
36.0: Types of Volcanoes.
(n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.ck12.org/user:YWxpbGhvbHRAZ3JlZW53b29kc2NoYXJ0ZXIub3Jn/book/5th-Grade-Science-Town-2013-14/r2/section/36.0/
