Sasha Says - Volcanoes and updates on Geosites

<h1>Sasha Says volcanoes and updates on Geosites</h1> <h1>30 April 2020</h1> <p><strong>Geoeducator:</strong> So I've been working on some activities to do with volcanoes this last week. So people may be aware that we have a number of very very old volcanoes in the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark. I guess the most prominent ones will be the one at Oamaru here. So that's at the Cape. So that was around 35, 40 million years ago that that had a whole lot of activity. But we also have a number of other centres of volcanic activity around the Geopark as well. So on Kids Corner, which is a page on our website we've set up some kid friendly information about some of the volcanic history of the area, including some features that you may not know about. So there's an educational bent there. So volcanoes, are cool to to really investigate and learn about. So get on there, read that. And then we are also going to have an activity uploaded as well where you get to colour in a volcano and learn some of the various parts of the volcano, what they are called. And we're also going to have a video on there on how to make your very own volcano. So get on there. Check it out and send your photos in of volcanoes that you've made at home.</p> <p><strong>Radio Announcer: </strong>So you can actually make a volcano and have it erupt.</p> <p><strong>Geoeducator: </strong>You can make a volcano. Look, it's heaps of fun. Kids just don't tire of this because who doesn't like, you know, bubbly, foamy, mess. So you just need baking soda and a little bit of dishwashing liquid and vinegar. So you will need an adult to help you because obviously vinegar is acidic and so it can be stingy if you get it into cuts and your eyes and things. And we also added some food colouring to make some orangy read colour lava. So you combine them together and you get this foamy lava going down the side of your volcano. Might want to make it in your sandpit at home or I made mine out of a mound of dirt in the garden. And I put dinosaurs around the edge of it - so it