Equipment List for Chapter One:
Materials needed for each group per activity.
Activity 1
- U.S. Geological Survey Map This Dynamic Planet
- Metric ruler (30 cm)
- Colored pencil or crayon
- Copy of blank world map
(Mercator projection)
Activity 2
- Plastic shoebox
- Plastic (acrylic/see-through) clipboards (or clear, flat box lids)
- Heavy “butcher” paper or construction paper
- Masking tape
- Metric ruler (30 cm)
- Transparency
- Transparency marker
Activity 3 Part A
- Liquid soap (or shampoo, glycerin, etc., to use as a source of fluid)
- Eyedropper (with rubber top — 1 mL or 1 cc volume)
- Ice (to cool the liquid soap)
- Hot water or heat source (to warm the liquid soap — you do not have to boil)
- Transparency (onto which you photocopy a sheet of square centimeter graph paper — this provides a grid for estimating surface area of flows)
- Metric ruler (30 cm) Activity 3 Part B
- Graph paper
- Calculator (or computer with spreadsheet program to enter, plot, and print data and graphs)
Activity 4
- Graph paper
- Internet access (or printouts of eruption simulations for students to analyze)*
Activity 5
- Can of soda/pop (full and unopened)
- Heat source (Bunsen burner setup or hot plate)
- 1-Liter Pyrex® beaker (for water bath)
- Rubber tubing (about 50 cm)
- 500-mL beaker
- Modeling clay (to partially seal soda can opening)
- Safety goggles
- Plastic container (shoebox size)
Activity 6
- 8–10 varied rock samples (some local rocks and some volcanic rocks): basalt, rhyolite, scoria, obsidian, pumice, andesite or dacite
- Chart of rock types and names of common rocks (see chart on page 49)
- Local, state, or regional geologic maps*
- Hand lens or magnifying glass
- Copy of the cross section of a composite volcano shown in Apply section of the activity
Activity 7
- Students construct their models of monitoring instruments from materials readily available at home
* The EarthComm web site provides suggestions for obtaining these resources: http://www.agiweb.org/earthcomm/ |