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Newsletter No. 8 - Volcanoes: An Amazing and Destructive Force
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Volcanoes: An Amazing and Destructive Force
Volcanoes are amazing, right? Now that Mount St. Helens has become the most talked about science topic in the news, students probably have a ton of questions on the topic. To help, we've compiled some volcano facts, as well as more information on Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes in the United States.
Teacher Resource: Volcanoes
WARD'S also offers a wide variety of activities, models, books, videos and computer software to help you teach your students about one of the Earth's most amazing and destructive forces.
Below is just a sample of this month's featured volcano products:
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Eruption of Mount St. Helens Kit
Students will explore earthquake frequency, prediction, and distribution/effects of volcanic ash as they study the eruption of Mt. St. Helens and relate it to plate tectonic theory. The activity comes with materials for five lab groups. $44.95
 
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Our Amazing Volcanoes Model Kit
Your students can explore the most destructive force on Earth as they play with the durable 3-D volcano landscape.
Using the safe, dual-chamber volcano bottle, they can create eruptions ranging from 6″ high up to an incredible 6′. The landscape model can be painted and displayed along with the included poster, to encourage your students to learn about the different types of volcanoes, and other interesting information like how they work, why they form, and where they are most prevalent.
The kit includes one landscape model with legs and labels, a dual-chamber bottle, poster, fact book with instructions, painting guide, non-toxic paints, and brushes. $18.95
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Geoblox Volcano Models
Most textbook illustrations of volcanoes are vertically exaggerated. The models represented here are drawn to a more accurate scale and some are even drawn without vertical exaggeration.
The set of twenty patterns is comb bound and can be used as a copymaster to produce enough for your entire class or you can enlarge the patterns to use as demonstration models. $20.00
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October 11, 1968
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.
October 11, 1984
Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 14, 1947
Chuck Yeager becomes the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight.
October 15, 1997
NASA launches the Cassini-Huygen spacecraft on its way toward Saturn. The craft entered Saturn's orbit on July 1, 2004 to become the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn.
October 15, 2001
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon lo.
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