The purpose of this activity package is to provide easy and enjoyable science activities and observations which will give students evidence, illustrations and visualizations for some of the changes in the earth's crust. This is a whole language unit on volcanoes using the book Hill of Fire as a literature introduction. Science, Art, and Geography can all be incorporated to complete this whole language lesson. This is a good project to tie language arts and science together. I present it after a study of different types of fiction and a study of green plants.
Students learn through the discovery method how electricity works.
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