Mentos and soda eruptions- lessons on explosive volcanic eruptions
Context
Audience:
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered:
How the activity is situated in the course:
1) laboratory activity in undergraduate volcanology course
2) sample demonstration and lesson in an elementary education course (for future teachers)
National or State Education Standards addressed by this activity?:
Properties and changes of properties in matter
Motions and forces
Transfer of energy
Chemical reactions
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity:
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity:
Other skills goals for this activity:
Description of the activity/assignment
Determining whether students have met the goals
Laboratory notes
Written questionnaire
Download teaching materials and tips
- Activity Description/Assignment (Acrobat (PDF) 15kB Dec11 06)
Other Materials
Supporting references/URLs
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109
Baur JE, Baur, MB (2006) The ultrasonic soda fountain: A dramatic demonstration of gas solubility in aqueous solutions. Journal of Chemical Education 83:577-580
Harpp KS, Koleszar AM, Geist DJ (2005) Volcanoes in the classroom:a simulation of an eruption column. Journal of Geoscience Education 53:173-175
Mangan M, Sisson TW (2000) Delayed, disequilibrium degassing in rhyolite magma; decompression experiments and implications for explosive volcanism. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 183(3-4):441-455
Spieler O, Kennedy B, Kueppers U, Dingwell DB, Scheu B, Taddeucci J (2004) The fragmentation threshold of pyroclastic rocks. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 226:139-148