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In the past quarter, the students have been learning about natural disasters. As an end of the unit project they worked in teams to build paper mache volcanoes. The first step, they crumbled the newspapers and taped them together into a dome shape. Next, they dipped the strips of newspapers into the glue and water mixture and covered the dome. We left them to dry for two days.



In the next class, the students painted their volcanoes with red and brown paint to create that volcano feel.




The students prepared the “magma solution” with vinegar and red food coloring. We took the volcano mountains outside into the sandbox, the students added some dinosaurs near their volcano mountains and set the magma to work! They put some baking soda into the mouth of the mountain, and poured the solution in. They were all excited to see it exploded! The lava got on the dinosaurs and some children saved them from being burnt by the hot lava!

It was an exciting project as the students all got their hands on it and with much anticipation built up to the day they finally got to create the hot lava. They were still talking about it even a few weeks later!

Michelle