Volcanoes - Responses to an eruption (Complete lesson)

Learning objectives:

What happens after a volcanic eruption.
That responses to eruptions can be short-term or long-term.
In this lesson, we start with a reminder of what occurs during a volcanic eruption.
We then go on to look at the different responsibilities are expected of different groups of people during a volcanic eruption - the police services, the hospitals, the people that live nearby etc…
We learn that responses can be classes as short-term and long-term and what these classifications mean.
the pupils are tasked with classifying twenty different responses to an eruption into short-term and long-term responses.
For a plenary, the pupils have to prioritise their short-term responses into order of importance.
Other lessons available in this series:

Where are volcanoes located?

How are volcanoes formed?