This article highlights science and literacy lessons to teach elementary students about erosion, glaciers, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Links to national standards are included.

This article, written for students in grades 4-5, discusses the world's most southern active volcano, Mt. Erebus of Antarctica. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.

This article is about the latest remake of Jules Verne's popular 144-year-old novel Journey to the Center of the Earth that also provides links to the American Geologic Institute's (AIG) Educator Guide for using the movie (Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D) to interest students in geology and earth science.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientist Mike Garcia draws lava samples at the foot of the active Kilauea volcano to see if it is related to its neighboring volcano, Mauna Loa.

This video segment adapted from NOVA relates the dramatic story of vulcanologists trying to predict the timing of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

This article describes the work of Hubert Staudigel and Cathy Constable, researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography who study Mt. Erebus, Antarctica's most active volcano.

This article features children's literature about erosion, glaciers, earthquakes, and volcanoes for use in the elementary classroom.

Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.

This lesson plan is to help students gain understanding of 5th grade vocabulary pertaining to Earth System Changes and Landforms.  There are articles, images, vocabulary lists, and assessments included.  Enjoy!

This interactive activity produced for Teachers' Domain shows the relationship between tectonic boundaries and the locations of earthquake events and volcanoes around the world.

The origin of the place name for -- Black Rock Volcano -- is summarized in a PDF document. This brief article is extracted from the publication UTAH PLACE NAMES (1990), compiled and written by John W. Van Cott. For each of the over 4000 place names indexed in the book are answers to such questions as: Where is it? What is its history? What is its importance? Who provided the name and when? What does it mean? Specific Section, Township, Range, and Altitude data is also supplied.

The origin of the place name for -- Crater Knoll -- is summarized in a PDF document. This brief article is extracted from the publication UTAH PLACE NAMES (1990), compiled and written by John W. Van Cott. For each of the over 4000 place names indexed in the book are answers to such questions as: Where is it? What is its history? What is its importance? Who provided the name and when? What does it mean? Specific Section, Township, Range, and Altitude data is also supplied.

This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service illustrates the difference between explosive and effusive volcanic eruptions as well as the hazards that can result, including lahars, tsunamis, and lava flows.

This interactive resource adapted from the National Park Service illustrates the variety of landforms and features created by volcanoes. Featured are calderas, craters, fumaroles and other geothermal features, igneous rocks, lava flows, lava tubes, and maars.

What exactly is online multimedia? We'll look at some examples related to earthquakes and volcanoes.

This formative assessment item discusses common misconceptions about volcano location around the world. Resources include background and content information as well as alignment to the National Science Education Standards. The probe could easily be modified to be used with a study of earthquakes instead of volcanoes. Teachers can access other resources including facts about volcanoes and lesson ideas.