Thar She Blows
We have been very privileged to live in the Pacific Northwest and able to walk on, visit, touch and see volcanoes up close. I was a young girl when Mt. St. Helens in southwest Washington blew in 1980 and I have been able to share my story with my children. On October 1, 2004 Mt. St. Helens "burped" and we were able to spend a few days thinking and studying about what we witnessed via television. We haven't done a flow blown unit, but these are the recourses we have used over the years as we have studied volcanoes.
Please see the related unit Geology
and Washington State.
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| Resources--books | Resources--websites | Projects | Writing assignments |
Resources
Books
Non-Fiction--Information books:
 | Blow Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes by Joanna Cole (Scholastic)* |
| Planet Earth Volcanoes Editors of Time-Life Books, (Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1982, ISBN 080944304X) |
| Roadside Geology of Mount St. Helens national Volcanic Monument and Vicinity by Patrick T. Pringle (1993) |
| The Best Book of Volcanoes by Simon Adams (Kingfisher - New York, 2001, ISBN 01753453517) |
| The Mount St. Helens Disaster: What We've Learned by Thomas G. Aylesworth and Virginia L. Aylesworth, (Franklin Watts, New York, An Impact Book, 1983, ISBN 0531044882) |
| The Mount St. Helens Volcano by William Bankier, (Saddleback Publishing Inc., 1993, ISBN 156254098X) |
| The Science Times Book of Natural Disasters Edited by Nicholas Wade, (The Lyons Press, 2000, ISBN 1558219579) |
| Volcanoes by Mauro, Rosi, Paolo Papale, Luca Lupi, Marco Stoppato; (Firefly Books Ltd., ISBN 1552976831) |
| Volcanoes of North America and Canada by Charles A. Wood and Jurgen Kienle, (Cambridge University Press - New York, 1990, ISBN 0521364698) |
| Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, (Scholastic, 1999, ISBN 0439095808) |
Activity Books:
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Fiction:
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Audio/visual:
| Bill Nye The Science Guy: Rocks & Soil Disney
Educational Productions video |
| Volcano Nature's Inferno, by National Geographic,
2003, DVD - 60 minutes |
Websites
These web sites are going to lean heavy on the volcanoes in our backyard; the Pacific Northwest in particular Mt. St. Helens
| Volcanoes from Christopher's page (I've included his home page since links will change with aol) |
| Volcanoes.com |
| List of volcanoes in the US from Volcano World |
| Mt. St. Helens from Volcano World (main Mt. St. Helens index) |
| Unit study from Volcano World |
| Plate Tectonics from Volcano World |
| Volcanoes form solcomhouse.com |
| Volcanoes in Yellowstone form solcomhouse.com |
| Mt. St. Helens from USGA |
| Cascade Range Volcano from USGA |
| Unit Studie-Teachers guide (for purchase, but good ideas) |
| Volcano or Understanding Volcanoes from Discovery school.com |
| Gifford Pinchot National Forest (Mt. St. Helens) from USDA Forest Service their teacher page and Volcano Cam for Mt. St. Helens |
| Tours of Mt. St. Helens although the tour is "over" the information on this web page is awesome. |
| The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (home page) Mt. St. Helens information from the University of Washington |
| Pictures of Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1982 (not the big one in 1980) from UW Seismology lab |
| Updated earthquake information from UW Seismology lab (local to WA and OR |
| The Many Faces of Mt. St. Helens a wonderful read about what the volcano means by Valerie Smith |
| Plate Tectonics from USGS Understanding Plate Movement |
| Plate Tectonics from UC Berkley |
| Virtual Tour of Mt. St. Helens with 5th grade class |
| Earth Observatories from NASA |
| Biggest Volcano from extremescience.com |
| Hawaii's Volcanoes from National Geographic |
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Projects
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Completed: October, 2004
November, 2006
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