Lesson Plan

Volcanoes & Lava Lesson Plan

A week on the islands of fire.

Kids learn how volcanoes work using Hawaiʻi as the real-world example: how lava builds islands, why some lava runs and some crawls, and how the islands drift across a hot spot.

Each level gets its own five-day plan, with a lava race for Littles, a viscosity lab for Middles and island-age plate speed math for Bigs.

What's inside

• Three ready-to-teach plans: Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8)
• Parts of a Volcano label sheet
• Lava race, viscosity lab and plate speed math
• Sort cards, sequence cards and a writing page
• Word search, crossword or maze, scramble, secret code, fact cards and word cards
• Certificate and answer key, 60 pages, US letter size

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