Posts treating: "General Interest"
Monday, 30 March 2020
In these very difficult circumstances, many of you will be working from home and trying to think of ideas for your pupils or for children at home.
Earthlearningidea has a Children's Fun page which may help.
Alternatively, you can find topics by using either the search engine or the alphabetical index. Each activity has a suggested age range (usually on the second
The European Federation of Geologists’ Panel of Experts on Education
invites you to join the EUROPEAN FRIENDLY ROCK NETWORK.
The Network is
established with the following aims:
Raising
awareness of young people on nature and interest for geosciences;
Increase
the schools’ (teachers’/students’) knowledge on the geology
and heritage of the region they inhabit;
Increase
Voyages in Deep Time is an exciting project which has developed free smartphone apps to encourage people to visit and enjoy learning about their local rocks and landscapes that tell us what our part of the world was like millions of years ago – in deep time!
The app Voyager deeptime is a game taking the user on a voyage of discovery and survival in ancient environments. It is aimed at
Lecture About Quarrying Bath Stone
A source put this on Facebook and it looks rather interesting.
Geological Skills Test - Which way is UP?
HERE is a test for you! Don't scroll down the page until you have reached your decision.
Click on the "Fullscreen" button (the two diverging arrows) on the black band at the top of the photo and it will become full screen and you can zoom in and out with the + and - at the bottom right, or use your mouses scroll wheel. Press "Escape" to return to the previous page.
Your task is to decide if the rock sample is younging to the left or right.
Once you [...]
An Essay on the Geological Column
This article discusses the geological column and is a useful and well written appraisal of the column. It mentions some of the many changes that have been made and the means used to determine where the boundaries are. Well worth reading!
Forget Planetesimals, Think Pebbles
This article in The Atlantic magazine describes how theories on planet formation are moving away from the merging of planetesimals to the accretion of pebbles. Apparently this explains why Uranus and Neptune are ice giants while Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants.
My qualifications are rather absent in this subject, so read the article and come to your own conclusions.
An artist's rendition of a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk
Down to Earth Extra - May
You can download this from HERE. Or read it on this page below.
Palaeontologists Need a Good Eye!
A recent article in the Guardian reiterates an old argument that a good eye is the best means of finding fossils. Once you have the fossil, technology can be of invaluable help but there are few technological means of helping the fossil finder.
A cast of the dinosaur Linheraptor - the original was found when part of a single claw was exposed in a hillside. Photograph: David Hone
And some people have the knack of finding fossils. I wish I had it! On a [...]
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Fantastic exhibition 'Sculpture in Stone'Asthall Manor,near Burford, Oxfordshireuntil 10th JulyVisit
Collection of random flint fossils free to a good home - rather heavy!If interested please contact Nick on
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Ever since it was discovered wrapped in the folds of Tutankhamun's mummy in 1925, an ancient Egyptian dagger has puzzled historians. How did the boy pharaoh's craftsmen make an iron blade of such quality that it survived more than 3,000 years inside a sarcophagus without turning to rust?Scientists have now reached an extraterrestrial answer: the dagger was forged from the metal of a fallen meteorite. A team of Egyptian and Italian researchers used X-rays to analyse the iron in the knife and [...]
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