{"id":291303,"date":"2010-02-07T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2359"},"modified":"2010-02-07T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T01:50:07","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-vacation-under-the-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/291303","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Childrens Literature: Vacation Under the Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/13.gif\" title=\"13.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/02\/13.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"13.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack looked up at the erupting mountain.\u00a0 A red -hot cloud billowed over it.\u00a0 Fires burned on its slopes.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/kids\/magictreehouse\/volcano.html\">Vacation Under the Volcano<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marypopeosborne.com\/index.htm\">Mary Pope Osbourne<\/a> is one of the Magic Tree House series books.\u00a0 It is the story of Jack and Annie and their trip to the ancient volcano (Mt. Vesuvius) in Pompeii.\u00a0 Contained within the entertaining plot are accurate descriptions of the volcano and its eruptions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book could be used to instill interest in\/reinforce the subject of volcanoes. It would help teach the students that the earth&#8217;s surface is constantly changing (5.7)\u00a0 The book would be most appropriate for grade levels 3-5.\u00a0 A great across subject book, it would serve easily as a reading group book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Discovery Kids website contains <a href=\"http:\/\/kids.discovery.com\/games\/pompeii\/pompeii.html\">interactive activities <\/a>about volcanoes including a virtual &#8220;build your own volcano.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A fun activity, this page is a volcano <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcteach.com\/free\/w\/wordsearch_volcano.pdf\">word search<\/a> with key vocabulary terms related to volcanoes.<\/li>\n<li>This site contains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach-nology.com\/themes\/science\/volcano\/\">lesson plans<\/a> and activities for teachers on the subject of volcanoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/kids\/magictreehouse\/volcano.html\">Vacation Under the Volcano<\/a><strong><br \/>\nAuthor:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marypopeosborne.com\/index.htm\">Mary Pope Osborne<\/a><strong><br \/>\nIllustrator: <\/strong>Sal Murdocca<strong><br \/>\nPublisher: <\/strong>Scholastic Inc<strong><br \/>\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1998<strong><br \/>\nPages: <\/strong>74 pages<strong><br \/>\nGrade Range:<\/strong> 3-5<strong><br \/>\nISBN: <\/strong>0-590-70639-X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jack looked up at the erupting mountain.\u00a0 A red -hot cloud billowed over it.\u00a0 Fires burned on its slopes.&#8221;\u00a0 Vacation Under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osbourne is one of the Magic Tree House series books.\u00a0 It is the story of Jack and Annie and their trip to the ancient volcano (Mt. Vesuvius) in Pompeii.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}