Volcano Lesson Plans 5th Grade. By completing this lesson students will learn about volcanoes and in the process demonstrate their reading comprehension skills including reading strategies inference literal meaning and critical analysis. Exploring the rocks produced by volcanoes.
Overview of fifth grade volcanoes week 1. Critiquing books on volcanoes for their scientific content. The following 5th 6th grade science lesson will help students gain a brief knowledge of volcanoes.
Students will learn the three types of volcanoes how lava is produced and learn why lava flows from volcanoes and what it consists of.
There are many great volcano books that can be shared with this lesson. The changing earth the students will be able to use models to demonstrate the effect of mountain building weathering and erosion forces on the surface of the earth. In this volcano lesson students view a documentary style video on the threat volcanoes present to our environment and the most common locations of them. Themselves the notable volcanoes of the world and some basic information about each volcano.
