1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Mathematics
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF.BF.A.1 Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.MG.A.1 Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g., modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).*
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSG.MG.A.3 Apply geometric methods to solve design problems (e.g., designing an object or structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems based on ratios).*

2. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape?
The Tolbachik volcanic complex comprises two major volcanoes and several smaller volcanic peaks on the eastern side of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. The volcanoes have been erupting for centuries, with the most recent activity beginning in late So while the land surrounding Tolbachik is often clogged with ice brought on by the cold Siberian climate, rivulets of lava continue to pump from fissures along the southern slopes.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 1
Web Search
What is a cinder cone? 2
Image Search
Find images of cinder cones. Describe what they are in relation to a volcano. 3
What are morphological and morphometric studies? 4
Thinking
What formula would you use to determine rates of erosion of a cinder cone? 5
What methods do scientists use to monitor geographical changes to the landscape?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 1
Web Search
What is a cinder cone? 2
Image Search
Find images of cinder cones. Describe what they are in relation to a volcano. 3
What are morphological and morphometric studies? 4
Thinking
What formula would you use to determine rates of erosion of a cinder cone? 5
What methods do scientists use to monitor geographical changes to the landscape?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 1
Web Search
What is a cinder cone?
(Possible Search Query: “cinder cone”)
Sources
Extreme Science:
Cinder cone is the classic shape of a volcano. They look like a hill with a crater in the center.

8. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 2
Image Search
Find images of cinder cones. Describe what they are in relation to a volcano.
(Possible Search Query: “Cinder Cone”)
Sources

9. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 3
Web Search
What are morphological and morphometric studies?
(Possible Search Queries: “morphological”, “morphological studies”, “morphological volcano studies”, “morphometric”, “morphometric studies”, “morphometric volcano studies.”)
Source
Academia:
Wikipedia:
Wikipedia:
Morphological studies is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them. Geomorphologists seek to understand why landscapes look the way they do. Morphometrics are refers to the quantitative analysis of form, a concept that encompasses size and shape.

10. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 4
Thinking
What formula would you use to determine rates of erosion of a cinder cone?
(Possible Search Queries: “cinder cones”, “cinder cones mathematics”)
Sources
Inbar, Moshe, et al. "Morphometric and morphological development of Holocene cinder cones: A field and remote sensing study in the Tolbachik volcanic field, Kamchatka." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (2011):
A cinder cone takes the form of a cylindrical pyramid. Erosion rates would decrease the volume of the cinder cone. Subtracting the measurements of the cinder cone currently from previous measurements would help to determine the rate of erosion.
“Cone height (h), cone width (W), h/W ratio and slope angle calculated from topographic maps are the main morphometric parameters used for determining the rate of cone degradation as a function of its exposure to erosion”

11. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape? 5
Web Search
What methods do scientists use to monitor geographical changes to the landscape?
(Possible Search Query: “geographical change monitoring”)
Source
Wikipedia:
National Park Service:
Traditional morphometrics analyzes lengths, widths, masses, angles, ratios and areas. Landmark-based geometric morphometrics, outline analysis, types of landslides, landslide triggers, earthquake activity, ground deformation, gas emission at ground level, emission of gas plumes and ash clouds, hydrologic activity, slope instability

12. How do volcanic features such as cinder cones offer the opportunity to monitor the processes and development of the landscape?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.