Volcanoes

Speed up your planning with these engaging classroom activities on volcanoes and tectonic hazards for key stage 3, 4 and 5. Our teaching resources include printable worksheets, adaptable templates, vocabulary games and PowerPoints. Activities range from identifying the type of volcano for KS3 geography to revising case studies of active volcanoes in Italy, Iceland and Japan for GCSE and A-level.

Help students to understand the movement of tectonic plates and learn the key words for describing volcanic eruptions – ‘hotspot’, ‘magma’, ‘ash fall’, ‘lava flows’, ‘pyroclastic flows’ – through puzzles and games such as crosswords, bingo and Taboo.

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