Bulldozer loves geology and earth science, showing a particular interest in volcanoes lately.

I couldn't resist the opportunity to review some basic concepts and then expand to others based on questions he's had.

These Montessori-inspired volcano activities with free printables have been a huge it in our classroom.

So much that when I rotated them out the first time, the kids begged for them to come back.

Here's what we've been up to!

Montessori-inspired Volcano Activities with Free Printables

Parts of a Volcano

Using the cards provided the kids, especially Princess and Sunshine, enjoyed creating their own Parts of a Volcano books.

They colored the specific parts mentioned on each card, and then depending on abilities either traced or wrote the words of each part.

Source: The free printable for this activity can be found at The Helpful Garden.

Parts of a Volcano with LEGO

Bulldozer and his brother are very much into everything LEGO, but we've never used the blocks in the classroom until this project.

I challenged to the boys to build the layers of a volcano with LEGO bricks.

It proved to be much more challenging than they thought, but they stuck with it.

If you look closely you can see all parts of the volcano mentioned on the cards in the activity above.

Types of Volcano Eruption Match Up

As Bulldozer was enjoying multiple volcano books we checked out from our local library he discovered that there are different types of eruptions.

This was fascinating to him and he asked for more information .We responded with this match up activity.

Source: Jason created this free printable as part of our Volcano Printable Pack 1. This is a subscriber's only freebie. For your free copy, click on the subscriber's link at the bottom of this post.

Type of Volcanoes Sort

Not only are their multiple types of eruptions, but there are also several different types of volcanoes. In this activity the kids match up the type of volcano with it's definition and then sort the famous volcanoes by type.

Source: Jason created this free printable as part of our Volcano Printable Pack 1. This is a subscriber's only freebie. For your free copy, click on the subscriber's link at the bottom of this post.

Studying volcanoes with the kids has been so much fun. I, like Bulldozer, love any chance to study aspects of geology.

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