Table 6 Fifth Workshop design: Te mahi o Ruapehu (Volcanic products: events, deposits, and benefits)
Workshop | Body-Language teaching technique | Māori narratives | Scientific concepts | Example bodywork exercises | Audiovisual aid | Experience | External collabora-tors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5. Te mahi o Ruapehu | Somatic dance followed by guided choreography | Te mahi o Ruaumoko, Te Whare toka o Paerangi | Volcanic products: lavas, pyroclastic falls, Pyroclastic density currents (PDCs), lahars, debris-avalanche | A choreography was directed to represent (1) dome formation, and implied viscous-rigid behavior, (2) dome explosion and tephra fall dispersion, (3) eruption column collapse and the generation of PDCs. Then the teacher would detonate the first eruption at one team of students recreating eruption activity (1). They would select the next team, who would trigger activity (2), and so on with activities (3) and back to (1). A cycle of eruptions could be recreated and the implied processes were explained (e.g., Dome explosion would lead to Eruption column with ash dispersal, then eruption column collapse; after the gas got exhausted, a new generation of domes would grow). | Lesson in the classroom with videos of real volcanic events and virtual models showing: difference between effusive and explosive eruptions, ballistics, sustained eruption columns, ash-plumes, Pyroclastic Density Currents (flows and surges), lahars, edifice sector-collapse, and production of debris-avalanche. | A model of wheat, baking powder, and water volcano can be created to explore different magma viscosities (Acknowledgement to James Cowlyn and Ben Kennedy-University of Canterbury, New Zealand) | Ana Gabriela Mar Sarabia. Children psychotherapist specialized in dance-therapy and Hata yoga teacher |
The Mountain's clan | Relationship of the volcanoes in New Zealand to the Subduction along the Kermadec trench | ||||||
Tongariro blew his head | Explosive eruptions modify the shape of the volcanoes | ||||||
Wai-ā-Moe | Crater Lake, phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions | ||||||
Onetapu and the Origin of Mangawhero River | Lahar triggering mechanisms: eruptive and non-eruptive | ||||||
Rangipōs desert considered as Tapu | Rangipō desert is under the dispersal axis of major (Plinian) past fallouts | ||||||
Ka Ora, Kaitiakitanga | Volcanic benefits (water sources, geothermal springs, fertile soils), Environmental Geology | Interactive discussion about the benefits the tribe receives from Mt. Ruapehu | The video was launched and given to the children so that they could see all their integrated artwork and dance around their sacred volcano. |