Volcano World

Here are some great teaching resources and lesson plans on volcanoes from around the web.

From the USGS:

Teaching Activities for Educators

• Alaska Volcanoes Guidebook for Teachers - Grades 6-12 lesson plans, activities, and teaching resources focused on Alaska's volcanoes.
• This Dynamic Planet: A Teaching Companion - Plate tectonics activities based on the This Dynamic Planet Map and This Dynamic Earth booklet.
• Living with a Volcano in Your Backyard - An educator's guide with emphasis on Mount Rainier.
• Schoolyard Geology - Take a field trip around your school and learn about mapping and rocks.
• Volcanoes! teacher packet - Six general volcano lesson plans, a teacher's guide, and a poster.
• Monitoring Active Volcanoes

Educational Posters

• 30 Cool Facts about Mount St. Helens
• Eruptions in the Cascade Range During the Past 4,000 Years
• Geologic Hazards at Volcanoes
• A New Perspective on Mount St. Helens - Dramatic Landform Change and Associated Hazards at the Most Active Volcano in the Cascade Range (2008)
• Rebuilding Mount St. Helens (2006)
• Crater Lake Revealed
• Hawaii's Volcanoes Revealed

From the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program:

• K-12 Resources & Media Coverage
• Types and Processes Gallery
• Google Earth Holocene Placemarks
• Google Earth Current Eruptions Placemarks

Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology

• Cake Batter Lava

Stromboli online

• Virtual Climbs
• Bomb flight simulation
• Live webcams

Discovery Kids

• Volcano Explorer

PBS Online Video

• Deadliest Volcanoes

• Anatomy of a Volcano

• A Supersized Volcano

• Mt St Helens: Back From the Dead

• Meet the Volcanoes (types)

• Inside Nyiragongo Volcano

• Filming in a Disaster Area

• Doomsday Volcanoes