Magma Experiment: Learning to Record our Observations Like a Scientist

A pan bubbling with water.  Play dough, shaped into a pizza dropped into it.  Watch it begin to warp; now it is cracking, pushing upwards, creating islands, steam escaping, odd bubbles swelling and bursting, vents suddenly splitting open.  Is this what the primitive Earth looked like with volcanoes bursting upward, spilled lava across the landscape?  Is this same thing not happening today?
The recent earthquakes remind us that we sit upon tectonics plates shifting on magma!  The Earth is constantly changing, the land constantly forming.
We recorded our observations and tried to capture these ideas in the diagrams below.