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HumanitiesAges 7–1022 minFree sample
🗺️ Mapping Our World
Compass roses, keys and continents: become a confident map reader.
How this quest works
1. Wonder
Watch a 3-minute animation of a real eruption and jot down two questions in your explorer notebook.
2. Discover
Learn about magma, tectonic plates and pressure — the three ingredients every eruption needs.
3. Build
Make a baking-soda volcano and watch pressure push 'lava' up a narrow vent, just like the real thing.
4. Show what you know
Five playful quiz questions, then draw and name your own volcano island.
What you'll need 🎒
- Empty plastic bottle
- Baking soda (3 tbsp)
- Vinegar (1 cup)
- Dish soap + red food coloring
- A tray to catch the mess!
Big words we'll learn 📚
- Magma
- Hot melted rock hiding under the ground.
- Lava
- Magma once it bursts out into the open air.
- Tectonic plates
- Giant puzzle pieces of Earth's crust that slowly bump and slide.
- Pressure
- A big squeeze that pushes things out of a small opening.