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Supplies:
- Magic Tree House Book Vacation Under the Volcano and the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Ancient Rome and Pompeii [I try to get books from the library whenever possible, but they don’t always have everything.
- Choose Vacation Under the Volcano and then click on the book; Download the Cross-curriculum unit. We will be using the Reading Guide pages for comprehension for this book instead of a story map.
- Optional: Magic Tree House Games and Puzzles from the Treehouse book [This gets used a lot, but I will try to find alternatives online when possible. I make copies of the pages for easy gluing into the notebook]
- The spiral or composition notebook started with book 1
- Free account at Magic Tree House
- The usual: paper, printer, ink, pencils, crayons or colored pencils
- Other supplies will depend on what additional projects you choose to do
[If using both Magic Tree House and Story of the World curricula, there may be overlapping activities. SOTW focuses more on history, this unit will be more science-focused. We did this book after finishing all the Ancient Rome chapters of SOTW and used it as part of science, making it a unit on volcanoes. See SOTW Ch.39 for more history-related activities about Pompeii.]
Day 1
- Before starting reading, fill in the K and W sections of a KWL Chart about volcanoes (What do you already know and what do you want to know or wonder?)
- Download the Volcanoes workbook; print page 1 or 9 for the Volcano cover page and add to notebook (Print at 80% if using composition book and don’t print all of it, we only use some of the pages); or print a volcano coloring page (at 80%) for the the cover of the section
- Read chapter 1-2 of Vacation Under the Volcano
- Answer chapter questions from cross-curriculum unit (page 16)
- Watch Crash Course Kids- Landforms, Hey!**
Day 2
- Read chapters 3-4
- Answer chapter questions from cross-curriculum unit (page 17)
- Optional: Watch Magic School Bus- Blows Its Top (on Netflix at time of posting); withMagic School Bus Summary Worksheet or The Airport Diary- A Rumbling Volcano**
Day 3
- Read chapters 5-6
- Answer chapter questions from cross-curriculum unit (page 17-18)
- Complete the volcano word search
- Watch SciShow Kids-All About Volcanoes: How they form, eruptions, and more**
- Optional: Make your own sundial
Day 4
- Read chapters 7-8
- Answer chapter questions from cross-curriculum unit (page 18)
- Can you label the parts of a volcano? (for help labeling the parts)
- Watch Bill Nye the Science Guy-Volcanoes ** (23 min.)
Day 5
- Read chapters 9-10
- Answer chapter questions from cross-curriculum unit (page 18-19)
- Take the Vacation Under the Volcano Passport Quiz (Don’t forget to log in!)
- Read/listen to an introduction to the movements of the earth’s crust (Stop when the background changes from purple to green)
- Add Name that Continent lapbook piece to notebook (from Homeschool Share); here is an atlas to help with the names of continents
Day 6
- Read chapter 1-2 Fact Tracker: Ancient Rome/The Eternal City
- Watch Finding Stuff Out: Volcanoes** (22 min.)
- Read What is a Volcano? lesson and quick check questions (Print all pages; the other lessons will be used on different days)
- Complete A Volcano Story page (from Volcanoes workbook– pg.11)
- Optional: For more history about the Rise of Rome and Roman architecture see SOTW Ch.27-28
Day 7
- Read chapter 3-4 Fact Tracker: The Roman Military/Uniting the Empire
- Read/listen to Get My Drift (Stop when the background changes from green to brown)
- Watch Plate Tectonics for Kids**
- Add Plates lapbook piece to notebook (from Homeschool Share)
- Optional: For more history about the Roman army in Rome see SOTW Ch.29
Day 8
- Read chapter 5-6 Fact Tracker: Death in Pompeii/Daily Life in a Roman Town
- Read/listen to Bad Vibrations (Stop when the background changes form brown to red)
- Watch The Ring of Fire**(about 1 min.); print Ring of Fire lapbook piece and add to notebook
- Complete Where do volcanoes come from? lesson and quick check questions
- Optional: For more history about daily life in Rome see SOTW Ch.29
Day 9
- Read chapter 7 Fact Tracker: End of the Empire
- Take the Fact Tracker: Ancient Rome and Pompeii Passport Quiz (Don’t forget to log in!)
- Read/listen to Blow Your Top (Stop when the background changes from red to blue)
- Answer questions about Changes to Earth’s Surface: Volcanic Eruptions (go until it says you hit daily practice limit)
Day 10
- Read Types of Volcanoes and Structure Basics sections
- Complete What are some kinds of volcanoes? lesson and quick check questions
- Watch Different Types of Volcanoes** (about 6 min.) and add What’s the Difference? lapbook piece to notebook
- Begin building your own volcano project: Look Inside a Volcano, easy with play-dough, salt and vinegar, Papier-mache Erupting, or even Erupting with Sound (We are using this Discovery Glowing Volcano that I found on clearance after Christmas)
Day 11
- Read Lava Movement and Types of Lava sections
- Read more about the Different types of Lava and add the lapbook pieces to notebook
- Optional: Liquid Lava Experiment (workbook page 31)
- Work on your volcano project
Day 12
- Volcano Profile (from workbook; pages 28-29, 34 & 36; print at 80% for composition notebook)
- Work on your volcano project
Day 13
- Fill in the L section of the KWL chart; what are your favorite or most interesting things you learned about volcanoes?
- Match up the Eruptions from History and add to notebook
- Finish your volcano project and present what you’ve learned to family
Extras:
- Check out books from the library! (On days we finish quick, I usually add reading one of the library books on the topic. I try to have them set out, easy to get to as well. Cap’n C will just randomly pick one up and start reading when he’s interested in the topic.)
- Volcano coloring pages
- Play Mission Games with Jack and Annie!
(Last Updated 12/18/18)
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