June 6-Realtime

Wednesday, June 6, Simulating the Real World in Your Classroom

By Dianne Fulton

Volcano World

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu

This is one site that I have used in my third grade classroom as we were doing a research project on volcanoes. This website, supported by NASA, provides a list of the world’s volcanoes that viewers may click on to find information, pictures, and realtime actions of the volcanoes. Another feature of this site that I like is the map with the location of the volcano. Students can be teamed up to research a pre-selected volcano. This volcano research project can be utilized for the areas of science, geography, language arts, and technology. This unit takes approximately two weeks to complete. Each task has a rubric assessment. See complete details of the Volcano Unit of Practice at: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/dfulton/TERproject.html#Volcano

Another site that is exciting is Volcano Watch This shows the latest images, and Java Animation.

The Trouble in Paradise/ Real Video shows “How Volcanoes Kill”.

http://www.discovery.com/exp/montserrat/videoarchive.html also shows and narrates live action.