Volcano's

This study was a rabbit trail from our Japan Study that went along with "A pair of Red Clogs".

Did you know that Japan has over 100 volcano's?? So of course you have to study volcano's.

We (of course) made a volcano. We did this as a homeschool group activity. One lovely mum made a play dough volcano at home that we exploded and then the kids made a paper mache one that we exploded on our Japan day. I must admit that the explosions were a bit disappointing. It looks good but if you were expecting a big explosion that did not happen with ours (we used bicarb soda, dish washing liquid, red food colouring and vinegar)

After reading This blog . I want to try again but the opposite way to what we did - we added the vinegar last maybe adding it first and adding the bicarb last without the dish washing liquid might make it better - will have to try it.

Making our volcano

StormTheCastle.com has fantastic tutorials giving a few different versions of volcano's to make, and it contains pictures for those of us who really need a visual guide :)

Our Playdough volcano exploding (it did look good, even it it didn't blow huge)

Lapbooks, mini books and LapN'notes

Mini book at crayola

Volcano Lapbook at Homeschool Share

More fun hands on things to make:

3D paper model of Mt. Fuji

Extra books we read and resources used

The magic school bus blows its top DVD

We have a number of National Geographic and Discovery Channel DVD's and we watched all that had involved volcano's.

The magic school bus chapter book #15 Voyage to the Volcano

The hill of fire (Sonlight Reader 2)

Pompeii: buried alive (Sonlight Reader 2)

We used this volcano web quest, which was lots of fun and saved me from hunting all over the web for the information.

Our Volcano LapN'notes are here.

Royal Flying Doctor

The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS), known as 'The Flying Doctors' is an air ambulance service for those living in remote areas of Australia. It is a not-for-profit service and if you use their services you will never be presented with a bill. A big relief when you consider the extreme distances in outback Australia.

So we were please to support their open day and fundraiser last week and get the chance to see their new long distance plane. As the airport is Federal land you had to wear a tag to go out on the tarmac. It was a fantastic opportunity to see inside a plane and for the girls to sit in the cockpit of a plane.

Bunny in the cocpit of the plane.

For more information about The flying Doctors check out

Royal Flying Doctor Service

Wikipedia