Explorations of the web sites beyond the designated instructional content are also possible. Children can learn about volcano facts, Mount St. Helens, Pele the Volcano Goddess, and disaster intensity scales. A NASA document providing information on Volcanoes and Global Cooling, Volcanoes and Ozone Depletion, and Monitoring the Effects of Volcanoes. Online A 1998 Think Quest winner, this site offers a comprehensive introduction to volcanoes and plate tectonics. In addition to explanations about the concepts, students can search their database of volcanoes or play learning games.
Teachers have access to a small selection of lesson plans.
Volcano Information Center Information about volcanoes is provided by topic, including features of volcanoes, volcanic eruptions and volcanic hazards. This is the starting point for a virtual field trip on volcanoes from Tramline. Experts in the subject have selected a number of web sites on volcanoes and arranged them in a sequence to tell a story for students to follow. Students can move from one web stop in the field trip to the next with ample opportunity to explore within the individual web site as they wish. To be effective, teachers would have to ensure that student browsing through the field trip sites was purposeful.