Sometime in March, we read about different kinds of volcanoes . Joy “built” her own virtual volcano on the Discovery Channel ( see http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html)
We also read about Pompeii and viewed photos on the web of the actual site. I visited the ruins back in the nineties and took several shots of the place; so we browsed through those old photos .
After we’d done all that, she wrote a “written narration” about that fateful day when Vesuvius erupted and “buried” Pompeii and drew some illustrations in pencil. Sometime between that and the virtual volcano, we actually made a model with dough which we shaped and then baked. Then the fun part began where Joy and Grace poured the vinegar into the baking soda and walla!…our volcano erupted! Well, perhaps it wasn’t as volatile as we would have liked it to be; nevertheless, there was gooey reddish liquid oozing out of the dough-volcano. Grace said she felt like drinking it.
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