Anchor Phenomenon: Data from volcanoes can be analyzed to predict when eruptions may occur.

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In this lesson, students turn to the question of volcano monitoring, brainstorming how eruptions could be predicted and collecting and analyzing volcano data. They think about different monitoring techniques, which they discuss, and examine how monitoring devices are used at the module study volcano. Students map timelines of sample volcano data which they use to write scientific arguments.  Finally, they analyze a dataset of undermonitored volcanoes and create a monitoring plan, which they present.

 

Performance Expectation:

• MS-ESS2-1 Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process

• MS-ESS3-2 Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects