There are some days in education when things just happen to come together when the theory of teaching a concept meets the real world. Today was one of those days. The social studies class (grade 7) was studying volcanoes. The usual volcano erruption was produced by the proper chemicals.
About four student groups presented their project and made their volcano errupt with varying degrees of success.
Other classes looked on in anticipation as the volcanos did their thing.
You will notice in the background of some of these pictures that the rainforest is present as well as the fog. What you don´t see (and we had a hard time seeing it too) was the real volcano some 30 miles away was beginning to spit again. These kids live with the reality of volcanic ash being a part of their lives at any time. Fortunately, they are far enough away not to have to worry about evacuations or any real threat resulting from a serious erruption
And a good time was had by all while reality lerked in the background.
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