Primary CREST: GNS Volcanoes
A series of activities about Volcanoes New Zealand’s Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), providers of earth science research and consultancy.
Click on any of the lesson subjects below to download a PDF of the lesson plan.
Lesson plan 1: Volcanoes
Lesson plan 2: Inside the Earth
Lesson plan 3: The crust
Lesson plan 4: Moving plates
Lesson plan 5: Creating and destroying plates
Lesson plan 6: New Zealand's plates
Lesson plan 7: Magma
Lesson plan 8: Eruption products
Lesson plan 9: Making a volcano
Lesson plan 10: New Zealand eruptions
Lesson plan 11: Monitoring volcanoes
Lesson plan 12: Preparing for eruptions
Lesson plan 13: Benefits of volcanoes