It's a teachable moment, with a major event going on in our back yard. ... You don't always have an active volcano in your back yard to study — especially with the Web cams. |
It's such an amazing resource because the science is fairly easy to understand on the Web site. It's not something that's far away. |
Students can see different aspects of what's going on, everything from wind trajectory, seismographs, and activity over the last 24 hours. |
We looked at a video of Mount St. Helens, and one thing we looked at is how technology has changed from monitoring Mount St. Helens to monitoring this volcano. |