{"id":30260,"date":"2014-12-11T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30260"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T23:33:09","slug":"pahoa-school-students-tour-lava-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/11\/pahoa-school-students-tour-lava-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u0101hoa school students tour lava flow"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Ken Hon, 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Hilo professor of geology, explains the lava flow to a group of school children. (photo by Darcy Bevens, CSAV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On December 8 more than 300 Pāhoa Elementary students became the first of more than 1,000 students this week who will get a close-up view of a lava flow that forced them to change schools. The field trip turned into a hands-on science lesson as students met with geologists, touched hardened lava and shared their feelings of relocating to a new school. <\/p>\n

Students were invited by Hspan aria-label=”Hawaii”>Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense<\/a> and other county officials and geologists to view parts of Apaʻa<\/span> Street and the Pāhoa Transfer Station, closed due to lava from the June 27 lava flow. <\/p>\n

“Today’s tour gave students the opportunity to visibly see the magnitude of this episode and why they were forced to move,” says Keone Farias, incoming complex area superintendent for Kaʻu-Keaʻau<\/span>-Pāhoa. “Today’s event helps tie in what they’re learning in the classroom with what’s happening in nature. It also helps them build their academic vocabulary and give context to their writing.” <\/p>\n

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    The students viewed seven different learning stations hosted by scientists and experts from Civil Defense, the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Hilo’s Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes<\/a> (CSAV), <\/abb>糖心Vlog官方 Hilo Department of Geology<\/a> and Hawaiʻi<\/span> Electric Light Company<\/a>. <\/abb><\/p>\n