Team Teaching

Valarie Davis, Tanish Springer, Kimberly Schwab
ART 3000

Title of Lesson: Building a Stratovolcano

Grade Level: 5th

Class Time: 20 minutes

Concepts: Artistic skills and knowledge: creating, performing, and producing

Objectives:
1. The student will demonstrate proper care and safe use of art materials and tools.
2. The student will create a work of art than imitates nature.
3. The student will follow step-by-step instructions in order to build their own volcano.

Motivation: The students will get to work in groups to build their own volcanoes.

Vocabulary:
Stratovolcano: A volcano composed of alternating layers of lava and ash.
Moderate: Kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense.
Steep: Having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.Slope: To direct at a slant or inclination; incline from the horizontal or vertical.
Lava: The molten, fluid rock that issues from a volcano or volcanic vent.
Vent: An opening at the earth's surface from which volcanic material, as lava, steam, or gas, is emitted.
Ash: Also called volcanic ash. Geology: finely pulverized lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption.

Instructional strategies: Students will be given step-by-step instructions on how to build their own volcano. The students will be broken up into 5 groups and given the supplies to build their own volcano.

Modification: Picture instructions as well as written instructions will be given for the students who do not read well.

Assessment: The individual groups will be graded upon their ability to follow instructions and build their own volcano.

Materials/supplies:
a piece cardboard roughly 9 x 12 inches
small vial (film containers work well)
tape
newspaper
aluminum foil
spray paint
spray glue (optional)
sand or ash (optional)

Resources: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_models/models.html

Closing Statement: Now that you can see that with a few supplies and instructions you can build a stratovolcano what other land forms could you use this technique to build?

Possible answers:
Mountains
Mesa’s
Large land masses