Third Grade Learns about Volcanoes and Creating Tables

In conjunction with a classroom story about volcanoes, third graders investigated and collected information about volcanoes around the world.First they explored by creating an eruption using this site: Volcano Explorer. Then they learned how to create a table using Microsoft Word to organize the information they found. Some computer skills they practiced:

• selecting font/size
• copy and paste text and images between two documents
• proofreading and editing their writing using spellcheck
• Drawing a table and understanding terms related to tables (row, column, labels)

Students were encouraged to create an addition or subtraction math word problem using the information they collected in their volcano table. Follow this link to a great site that lists information about volcanoes around the world: Volcano list