Planning pathways using volcanoes resources

This interactive groups Hub volcanoes resources into key science concepts and topics.

This interactive diagram provides a selection of pathways that allow for differing approaches and starting points using our volcanoes resources. The aim is to assist educators with their planning of lessons and units of work by providing options that cover multiple science concepts and topics. Click on the labels for links to supporting articles, media and student activities.

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Acknowledgement: Background image of Mt Ruapehu erupting, courtesy of Geonet, licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.

Auckland’s volcanoes

Related articles

• Determining Auckland’s volcanic risk
• Auckland’s volcanoes
• Exercise Ruaumoko
• Geologists find a new volcano in Auckland
• Auckland’s forgotten volcano
• Volcanoes – timeline

Related media

• Volcanoes in Auckland – video
• St Kentigern’s pyroclastic flow – video
• DEVORA – video
• Future explosions in Auckland – video

Related activities

• Watching Rangitoto erupt

Acknowledgement: Geonet, GNS Science

Magma and lava

Related articles

• Magma on the move
• Exploring magma formation
• Plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes

Related media

• Measuring magma – video

Related activities

• Making lava fudge
• Growing crystals

Acknowledgement: Public domain

Volcanic rocks

Related articles

• Types of volcanic rock
• Reading rock core samples
• Volcanology methods

Related media

• Differences in rocks – video
• Explaining a rock core – video

Related activities

• Lost – a hot rock
• Identifying volcanic rocks
• Making a core sample

Acknowledgement: Peter MacMurchy

Types of volcanoes

Related articles

• Types of volcanoes
• Double trouble – Rotorua and Ōhakuri
• New Zealand volcanoes
• Exploding Taupō

Related media

• Volcano map of New Zealand – interactive
• Rotorua caldera formation – video

Related activities

• Volcano hunt
• Making a model cinder cone
• Calderas in the sandpit

Acknowledgement: Kubais, licensed through 123RF.com

Rotorua and Taupō volcanic region

Related articles

• Double trouble – Rotorua and Ōhakuri
• Exploding Taupō
• Searching for the Pink and White Terraces
• Volcanoes – timeline

Related media

• Rotorua caldera formation – video

Related activities

• Volcano hunt
• Calderas in the sandpit

Acknowledgement: GeoNet, GNS Science

Emergency planning

Related articles

• Determining Auckland’s volcanic risk
• Exercise Ruaumoko

Related media

• DEVORA – video
• Future explosions in Auckland – video

Related activities

• Home disaster kit
• Who’s on your team?

Acknowledgement: University of Waikato

Volcanologists and their work

Related articles

• Volcanology methods
• Dr Darren Gravley
• Dr Jan Lindsay
• Dr Phil Shane
• Professor Richard Price

Related media

• Geology in the field – video
• Measuring magma – video
• Onepoto Basin – video

Related activities

• Making a core sample

Acknowledgement: Dr Darren Gravley

NZC level 1 and 2 resources

These resources offer an introduction to the science behind volcanoes.

Related articles

• Shaky scientists and engineers
• Earthquakes and volcanoes
• Under the Earth’s surface
• New Zealand volcanoes

Related media

• Tectonic plates, volcanoes and earthquakes – video

Related activities

• Calderas in the sandpit

Acknowledgement: University of Waikato

Earthquakes

The interactive Planning pathways using earthquake resources groups Hub earthquake resources into key science concepts and topics.