Does anyone know how to help, my daughter wants to make a working volcano & i have no idea?
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Sorry I'm the kind of teacher you parents despair of because thats the kind of home work I'd set.  My class have to design and make a thermal insulator to stop ice melting this week!!!\n\nTry this link it might help\nhttp://www.volcanolive.com/model.html
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See for yourself:\n\nhttp://www.solcomhouse.com/volcano.htm\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/group10_new.html\nhttp://www.exn.ca/volcanoes/causes.cfm\nhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Outreach/AboutVolcanoes/where_do_volcanoes_occur.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/10136/volcano/volctq.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano\n\nMore random links I keep at hand for God knows what uses.
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go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanoe
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I think that your daughter is very responsible and u think to little of her and you should give her alittle bite of space \n\nparents are always worried but your daughter is probubly very cool and muchure..........and i think that since she is so great that you should let her have anything she wants and take her to the Bahamas every day .....and well i cant think or anything \n\noh yeah and some milk shakes i would love some mily shakes i mean she would every kid does you know what i am saying....\n\nhave a good one and let your daughter do what she wants for the rest of the day and\n\n\n\nshe needs some glue for her project \nso do u have any
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Well, the way I always did it was to build your model volcano out of usually brown playdoh.  One of the better methods is to take a discarded paper towel cardboard center and glue it to some sort of paper (best more cardboard) then build your volcano around it making sure to keep the hole in th center open.  Pour baking soda into it...take it to school and at the precise moment pour vinegar into the baking soda...I think some people put food coloring into it (bright orange)
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That is a complicated assignment for a child of that age.  It sounds more like what my seventh grader would be doing.  Actually they just got done with an assignment for science where they had to make a model car which ran on balloon power.  It's not even a full credit?  Ridiculous, you should talk to the principal or vice principal about such a complicated assignment.  Plus doing it over a holiday -- where's the holiday fun in that?!  Definately take that up with someone in authority, perhaps being in the industry they will listen.
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make anything out of the following\nperiscope\nvolcano (Although I don't suggest this - it is a very old project and maybe many will turn up using this)\nA mini hovercraft or hot air baloon (info can be found on net)\nI don't know what it is called but if you know that thing in which we have to take a small hoop across a wire (which is not straight) without touching it. If touched, it will make a sound.\n\nIf none of this suits you, you might watch Backyard Science at National Geographic Channel
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Well of course.........Chili Volcano's!!!\n\nFilling yet inexpensive - make your favourite chili recipe - buy hamburger -  (on sale) fry up with onions and add either a can of tomato soup (may need a little water if using soup base) as your base or tomato sauce. and add a can of red kidney beans - then add your spices.   Let simmer to blend.    Peel and boil up your taters.  Once taters are tender - drain and add a little milk and mash.  \nIn center of plate have a little mountain of taters and then put your chili over it - there ya go - a Chili Volcano\nHey - when I was a single parent and needed to make *ends meet* - it was a way to fill little tummy's and get my son to eat his taters and he thought it was neat.  He's now 32 and still makes Chili Volcano's  hehehe\nPS  - my chili today has evolved from this basic recipe - but you asked for cheap - but we still serve it Volcano style sometimes.
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Please dont assume your daughter is a slow learner, maybe shes just not being challanged. Please never use that term around her......please, you could be setting her up for failure before she starts, and dont allow any one else to label her in that way , in any event start with self esteem building techniques do small amounts of work and praise her on how smart she is positive re-enforcement works wonders.
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how about getting a bucket, a cups, and a dixie cup and then filling each with wet sand, turning it over to make a "sand castle" out of each.  you can show the kids the different sizes of each and how one is big, one is small and the other is in the middle (or for comparison words, you could do big-bigger-siggest).  you could then use these same size cups, scoop water into each and then pour it back into the pool.  each will make a different sized spalsh, again, big, medium, and small.  you could have the kids model make big medium and small pies of sand, or even provide them with wet sand to make the sand castle things themselves.
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My apologies. If you wanted a magic elixer to do it all, there isn't any.\n\nThe only tools available to you is discipline, get your 10 yr old to do some housework for pocket money and use your freezer to store some ready meals to pull out, nuke and put on the table.\n\nTidying up is about something that is always happening with kids. Look at what the kids play with and how and work out if a container can be used to improve tidying. For example my sons use two large containers for their Lego and soldiers and scenes. This then puts the responsibility on my boys to put there toys back in the boxes when ever it's needed. Tidying is something that should be done in a "bit here, bit there" as this is far more efficient and better appearance than leaving things and then have a large mess to clean.\n\nCleaning needs another method of "divide and conquer". Divide your house up into areas that then are completed at certain times during your week with areas like the kitchen bench completed at the begining of a cleaning session. Get yourself some labour saving devices as well to speed things up. We have 14 clothes backets, 2 or 3 spares in the laundry ready to go. One maybe for the top of the clothes hamper to stop clothes overflowing. One maybe two beside the washing machine for when washing day arrives. Clothes come off the clothes line then the folding, ironing, putting away might be a little while so their stacked and stored. Even when they are given to the kids to put away, if the kids forget or your not on top of it you limit the mess. Even putting big toys in them in the kids rooms.\n\nA dinner ready to go is about cooking your food at a time when things are easy. Examples are cooking the sauce of Spagetti Bolonaise then cool and freezing it. Buy angel hair spagetti which cooks the quickest and drag out the sauce, put it through the microwave ta-dah. There are lots of these and if you have a Croc-Pot you can load it with meat and vegies in the morning and serve with bread rolls at dinner. The very nice people in the recipe answer forum could roll out some for you as well.\n\nAs for you not having energy, would that mean your continually tired, go and see your doc about it and make sure about plenty of sleep, food and a multivitamin.\n\nHope this helps.
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Edible Volcano\n\nBefore \nAfter, showing pump and tube\n\nMany students build a volcano as a school project. This one looks great, works well, and is edible too!\n\nA small plastic bottle forms a container for the lava. Choose a bottle appropriate for the size of volcano you are making. Realize that it takes lots of mountain material to build a large volcano! The volcano picture above was made with 5 batches.\n\nA small hand-held water balloon pump, available at toy stores, is attached to a piece of flexible plastic tubing, available at hardware stores, pet shops, etc.\n\nThis tube can simply pass under the mountain, or for better appearance mount the volcano on a large flat cardboard box and pass the tubing through the box and out the side. IF you are using a box, make holes and pass the tubing through the box now.\n\nThe tubing passes through a small hole in the bottle. Pass it all the way up through and out the top, where you can attach a balloon. The pull the tube back down so the balloon is in the bottom of the bottle. Fix the tube in place and seal the opening with wax, hot glue, or similar. If you intend to eat the results, seal it with something non-toxic.\n\nThe main mountain material is Rice Krispy Treats. The recipe can be found on any cereal box of at the Rice Krispies web site. The mountain is shaped from this material, and then coated with peanut butter playdough (recipe below) and/or frosting. Use chocolate and vanilla frosting in various mixtures to create a variety of shades of color. Other edible materials can be used as well. Spray frosting, available in the cake decorating section of many grocery stores, comes in green and can be used to spray on realistic looking green colors.\n\nThe lava can be a variety of materials including honey colored red with food coloring, strawberry flavored ice cream topping, whipped topping thinned and dyed red, etc. Red sprinkles, red colored sugar, bits of marshmallow cream, or other "additives" gane give it a chuhnky, textured look if desired.\n\nFill the bottle with lava material, and pump up the ballon with the hand pump, pushing the lava out of the bottle and down the sides of the volcano.\n\n\nPEANUT BUTTER DOUGH INGREDIENTS:\n\n* 3 1/2 cups peanut butter\n* 4 cups confectioners' sugar\n* 3 1/2 cups honey\n* 4 cups dry milk powder\nHome\n\n© Copyright 2004 by Bill Lovegrove. All rights reserved.\n\nLast Updated 11/15/2004
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How to make a simple Van de Graaff Generator\n\nITEMS:\nPlastic Tupperware (microwave oven safe)\nSome wires\nNail\nSmall DC motor \nPiece of PVC pipe (approx. 3.8 cm in diameter)\nBroad rubber band \nWooden skewer\nPlastic bag\nRoll of tape\nSoft drink can\nMineral water bottle\n2 3volt batteries\nBattery holder (optional)\n\nPutting it together:\n1) Cut a hole in the middle of the bottom of the plastic container.\n2) Glue/tape the motor to the lid, making sure the shaft is at the centre of the lid.\n3) Using a hot nail (can be heated at the stove), make two holes near each other for the wires of the motor\n4) Thread the wires through the two holes (the two wires will connect to the batteries)\n5) Cover the container with the lid. (Inverted container in this case)\n6)Make another hole, perpendicular the motor shaft\n7) Thread another wire through(this will be your ground wire) \n8) Make the appropriate measurements for cutting your PVC pipe length and grooves(where the stick will rest)\n9) To make the roller, just stick tape to your stick and go round and round and round.\n10) Place the PCV tube on the lid, perpendicular to the motor. \n11) Thread the stick thru the rubber band and place it in the grooves.\n12) Make sure both rollers are parallel to each other when you thread the bottom of the band to the other "roller"\n13) Cut the top of the soft drink can.\n14) Cut both ends of the mineral water bottle off, making sure that it isn’t shorter than the PVC pipe.\n15) Make a hole near the top of the bottle.\n16) Strip some wire, twist it, and poke it through the hole.\n17) Electrically connect the copper wire to the soft drink can.\n18) Tape everything in place.\n\nWhen you put everything together, you get a crude Van de Graaff generator. Make sure the combs (end of wires) are near the belt and rollers. Make sure that when you run it, the belt doesn't slip off. If it does, make sure both rollers are parallel to each other. Also, try to superglue the motor to the Tupperware lid.\n\nWhen you first run it try taping strips of tissue paper to the can. It should start to rise seconds after the batteries are connected. If this fails, put your finger near one of the tissue strips. The strip should be attracted to your finger.\n\nPlaces with high humidity can be a real problem for electrostatic experiments. Try working in an air conditioned room to help overcome the problem.\n\nThe last two links are the best ones and both include detailed step by step process with pictures.
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Go here:\n\nhttp://www.fema.gov/kids/volcano.htm
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ladybear08,use playdough or paper mache\nWell, anyways, go to ''google'' search and type:\n''How to make a Volcano erupt?'' and there is your answer to your ?.Use it and your problem is solved.
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Why don't you help her to make a centre-piece so you can put it on the table while you eat Christmas dinner? I used to make them with my mum - get a piece of oasis (that spongey stuff you can stick things in), collect some pine cones and spray them gold or silver, and arrange Christmasey things on it like holly sprigs, then stand a candle in the middle. It's really simple, looks good and I'm sure your daughter would be really proud to see it on the table on Christmas day.