Today Room 20 had the opportunity to learn about volcanoes from the Informative Auckland Museum team.
We started off by learning about the different volcanies around Auckland. Did you know there are now 53 volcanoes here in Auckland? Most of them are extinct but some, like Rangitoto, are just dormant and could become active in the future.
Next, we learned about the different types of eruptions that can occur and the different rocks that be formed during an eruption. Some of the rocks were pumice, scoria, obsidian, basalt and lava bombs. We looked at samples of rocks and had to test our memory and see if we could remember all the names and label the samples correctly.
The last activity we had to do was to imagine we were in an eruption and react quickly to pack a bag full of essential items. We only had 30 seconds to do this!
We worked in teams and made some smart choices of what need to go into our bags. We even remembered to take a cat with us!
Thank you to the Auckland Museum team for an awesome hour!
