VOLCANO LINKS

TEACHERS * KIDS * ACTIVITIES * REFERENCE * SPECIFIC VOLCANOES * PICTURES AND VIDEO * LINKS SITES

TEACHER RESOURCES

• Volcanoes: An online booklet from the USGS
• A Teacher's Guide to the Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• Volcano teaching ideas from ABCteach.com
• Community Learning Network: Volcanoes
• Earth Science Web sites
• Enchanted Learning: Volcanoes
• Exploring Planets in the Classroom Hands-on Activities : Volcanology Activity Index
• Great Volcano Link page for teachers
• How volcanoes work
• Information about Project Lava
• Learner.org Volcano site
• NASA’s Visible Earth
• National Parks Service: School Zone (for curriculum based learning materials)
• National Geographic's Eye in the Sky: Volcanoes - great video clips available here!
• PBS’s Savage Earth: Out of the Inferno
• The USGS Learning Web: Volcanoes
• The Virtual Lava Tube
• The USGS links for Educators
• USGS: Geology resources and PDF images to download
• A virtual tour of Pompeii
• Volcano World Homepage
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes Discovery
• Volcanoes Modules Page
• Volcanoes Online
• Volcano Lesson Plans
• Official Homepage of Yellowstone National Park
• Park Geology Education Resources
  
  
  Video Notes

• National Geographic's Fire and Iceland
• PBS: Deadly Shadows of Vesuvius
• PBS: Into the Abyss (Volcanoes of the Deep)
• PBS: Volcano’s Deadly Warning
• PBS’s Savage Earth

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KIDS' RESOURCES

• USGS Volcano Photo Glossary
• Volcano World's Kids' pages
• Types of volcanoes (USGS)
• A volcano word search
• Dialogue for Kids: Volcano Facts
• Geysers and hot springs with sound effects
• Surfing the Net with Kids: Volcanoes
• The British Council’s Archives (click on volcanoes)
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency: Volcanoes
• USGS Volcano photo glossary
• Volcano World’s Games and Stuff
• Volcano World’s Kid’s Door
• Volcanoes of Mars and Washington
• Volcanoes Wordsearch
• Yellowstone @ nationalgeographic.com
  

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ACTIVITIES

• Building Volcano Models
• Make a Volcanic Eruption
• Science Papercraft: The Anatomy of a Volcano
• Tectonic Plate Puzzle part 1, part 2
• USGS Online Project Ideas for Earth Science
• Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium - hands-on volcano projects
• Activities and Teaching suggestions for Plate Tectonics

REFERENCE

• Top 101 Ask a Volcanologist Questions
• Volcano World Index
• Breaking Volcano News
• FAQs geology questions from USGS
• Frequently asked volcano questions from Volcano World
• Interesting Facts on Volcanoes (Volcano World)
• Legends about Volcanoes
• Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian)
• Predicting eruptions (PBS)
• Savage Earth: Ring of Fire
• The American Museum of Natural History’s Earth Bulletin: Volcanoes
• The Cascades Volcano Observatory
• The Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program
• USGS in the Parks: A Geology Resource for our National Parks
• USGS: FAQs
• Volcanic and Geologic Terms: an online glossary
• Volcano Lovers: Inside the Volcano
• VolcanoLive.com
• Project Lava’s links to the different American observatories
• Global tectonic and volcanic activity of the last one million years

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INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC VOLCANOES

• Earth’s Active Volcanoes
• Italy’s Volcanoes
• Mt Hood
• New Zealand’s Volcanoes
• Project Lava’s Links to American Volcanic Observatories
• San Francisco Volcanic Field (AZ)
• Servers and Searches and Useful Sites - by Volcanoes or Volcanic Area
• USGS Selected Volcano Information
• USGS: Volcanoes of the United States
• USGS: Volcanoes of the World
• Volcanoes in the North and Central American Region
• Volcanoes of the USA
• Volcanoes of the World

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PICTURES AND VIDEO

• Adam and Lyn’s World Images
• Earth Volcano Images and Video Information
• NASA JPL videos
• USGS Plate Tectonic Animations
• Movies from the USGS Video: Eruption of Kilauea 1959-1960
• Movie Clips from Volcano Video Productions
• New Zealand’s Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences: Volcano Photo and Video gallery
• Video clips on Volcano World
• CVO Photo Archives (Cascades Volcano Observatory)
• CVO Photo Archives - NASA Volcano Images

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LINK SITES… Lots of links about volcanoes!

• Volcano Links
• WorldAtlas.com Geography links
• The Electronic Volcano: A Volcano Resource from Dartmouth University
• The Volcano Information Center
• Links from Volcanoes.com
• Volcanic and Geological terms
• USGS FAQ’s (From the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory)
• Dialogue for Kids
• Geodynamic link site from NASA
  
  

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