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Icelandic Volcano: Path of the Cloud

Icelandic Volcano: Path of the Cloud One of the hardest things for kids sometimes is to “see” how one action affects the world.  This shows the path of the volcanic ash cloud across Europe and Asia.

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Posted on 12th June 2010Comments Off
Volcanoes – Where Should You Build?

This is a small part of the Learner.org Volcano tutorial. I’m not terribly impressed with the entire lesson because it’s all just reading and my kids get bored with that. But this is sort of interesting. You have to decide where you’ll build to keep the structure safe from a volcano. There’s data to look [...]

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Posted on 27th January 2008Comments Off
Forces of Nature

This is a National Geographic site that talks about four forces of nature – tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes. After going over the information in the tutorial – full of maps, pictures, info – you can create a volcano, tornado, or hurricane. Or you can set off your own earthquake, depending on which activity you’re [...]

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Posted on 24th January 2008Comments Off