Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead (Video)
See how life is bouncing back to Mt. St. Helens after it was obliterated in the eruption of 1980. (Chapter 5, approx. 7 min.)

Deadly Volcanoes (Slideshow)
Find out about some of the worst volcanic disasters of the past four centuries.

Blasts From the Past (Interactive)
Explore a map of supereruptions around the world.

A Supersized Volcano (Interactive)
See a portrait of the eruption at Toba 74,000 years ago, and how it dwarfs even the most disastrous "regular-sized" eruptions of our own era.

Mount Pinatubo: Predicting a Volcanic Eruption (Lesson/Video)
Watch and answer discussion questions about how scientists read the signs volcanoes give off prior to an eruption to minimize damage to lives and personal property. (6:57 min.)

Curriculum Connections
Internal earth processes, volcanoes, Mount Pinatubo, seismograph, seismic signals, magma, vibration, frequency, making predictions, lava, eruptions, hazards

Standards
Grades 5-8
Standard A: Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry
Standard D: Earth and Space Science: Structure of the earth system
Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal health, Natural hazards, Risks and benefits
Standard G: History and Nature of Science: Science as a human endeavor

Grades 9-12
Standard A: Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry
Standard D: Earth and Space Science: Energy in the earth system, The origin and evolution of the earth system
Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Personal and community health, Natural and human-induced hazards
Standard G: History and Nature of Science: Science as a human endeavor

Dating Lava Flows (Lesson/Video)
See how scientists search for carbonized remains of plants preserved in lava flows to find out how long it has taken rain forests on Hawaii to regenerate after a volcanic eruption. (4:36 min.)

Curriculum Connections
Adaptation, basic needs, changes in the Earth, cycles and processes, Earth's history, ecosystems, evidence for evolution, internal Earth processes, surface processes, lava flow, geology, relative-age dating, absolute-age dating, radiometric dating, radiocarbon dating, half-life, plate tectonics

Standards
Grades 5-8
Standard A: Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry
Standard D: Earth and Space Science: Structure of the earth system

Grades 9-12
Standard A: Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry
Standard D: Earth and Space Science: Origin and evolution of the earth system