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Monday, 20 June 2016
The new ELI today is 'Questions for any rock face 10 - sequencing; what questions about sequencing geological events might be asked at any rock exposure?'
The questions provided help pupils to sequence events using ‘relative dating’ methods.
Related activities to this are listed on the home page of our
The new ELI today is 'Questions for any rock face 9: metamorphic rock; what questions about metamorphism might be asked at any metamorphic rock exposure?'
Take your pupils to an exposure of metamorphic rocks where the features are clearly visible and preferably, where there is also evidence of the former rock type, and ask the questions provided. The answers will help pupils
The new ELI today is part of our series ELI Early years, 'Rock Explorers; putting rocks into families'. As Rock Explorers, pupils investigate a variety of rocks and sort them into groups. The activity includes opportunities for literacy, numeracy and art.
You could ask the pupils how they think the rocks might be used, e.g. the White family might be used to decorate buildings, the Pink
The new ELI today is 'What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life' Pupils are asked to imagine themselves to be there at the time when the sediments at the sedimentary exposure (or in the photographs provided) were forming, and to think what the conditions would have been like at the time.
Many more activities related to working out past environments
The new ELI published today is 'The toilet roll of time; make a geological timeline to take home'.
This activity has been devised to address the common lack of knowledge about geological time. Research has shown that many people have no idea of the great length of geological time nor of the order of the key events during the geological history of the Earth.
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The new ELI just published is 'Questions to ask at any rock face 6: fossils. What questions about fossils might be asked at any rock exposure?'
- What happened to these animals/plants just after they died?- Were they buried where they were or moved around, sorted out and broken up?- As they were being buried, what might they have looked like, smelled like?- After they were buried, how did
New ELI today: 'Rolling, hopping, floating and invisibly moving along; investigating how sediment is transported by water'.
After completing the activity, pupils can:• observe that under very low flow, some grains become suspended;• realise that with faster flow some sand grains bounce along while others are carried round and round by the flow;• appreciate that a much faster flow is
The new ELI today is 'Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)'. This activity provides teachers and leaders of field trips with questions to ask when looking at any rock exposure. The answers are used to distinguish between exposures of sedimentary and igneous rocks using simple criteria. (For simplicity, we are leaving metamorphic rocks until later in this
The new ELI today is 'Interactive re-creation; activities using simple transportable apparatus to simulate features in the field'
Demonstrate bedding, laminations, cross bedding, ripple marks, folding, faulting and shelly limestone - all with simple equipment. These activities help pupils to understand what they are seeing.
Many more ideas for activities out of doors can be downloaded
The new ELI today begins a new series which deals with questions you can ask when standing in front of any exposure of rocks and soil. We start with Planning for field work; preparing your pupils before setting out to "ask questions for any rock face".
Pupils are asked the following questions:-
- Why are we going outside? Can’t we just look at rocks in the nice warm classroom?
- What
The new ELI today is 'Sand on a sill; what will happen to a sand grain left on a window sill? - a rock cycle discussion'
This discussion activity has been devised to encourage pupils to think about rock cycle processes in the context of the area outside their own school. By leading the small group discussion using questions such as: ‘What might happen next?’, ‘And then?’ or ‘Can you think
The new ELI today is 'What drives the plates? - using a pupil model to demonstrate that slab pull is the main plate-driving force'
Recent evidence has shown that the traditional view of mantle convection being the main driving force in lithospheric plate movement is probably incorrect. If it were the main driving force, then plates with the largest surface area would move fastest because
The new ELI published today is 'Karstic scenery - in 60 seconds: modelling the chemical weathering of limestone'.
In this activity pupils compare the results of water on sugar cubes with features which develop as a result of the chemical weathering of limestone.
Many more activities about weathering can be seen on the home page of our website under 'Activities related to the new
The new ELI published today is 'Shell shake - survival of the toughest; why is the fossil record incomplete?'
In this activity, pupils deliberately smash a variety of seashells to see which ones are strong enough to remain recognisable, and which ones are so weak that they would leave little or no evidence of their existence. This leads pupils to realise that the fossil record is often
The new ELI, published today, is 'Roadstone - which rock?' This activity asks pupils to investigate which rock types are best for the wearing course of roads.
After completing the activity, pupils can:
• measure grain size of a selection of rocks;
• use six criteria to determine the best choice of rock for the wearing course of a road;
• realise that, because of the high cost of
The new ELI today is 'Failing slopes; modelling how rock cliffs and slopes can collapse
This activity encourages pupils to investigate the factors which affect the angle of slope at which materials fail and slip. The idea could be used in a lesson on slope failure itself, or as an application of the physics of friction. Results obtained from an actual investigation are recorded in
The new ELI published today is another in our ELI Early years series. 'Watery world game; climb through the watery world but watch out for snakes!'
The game can be played in any science or geography lesson and has cross curricular links with literacy and numeracy. It is also a useful water cycle introduction or revision exercise. Although the pupils’ watery world diaries will all be
The new ELI today is another in our fieldwork series. The 'All powerful' strategy; discussing geological histories in imaginative ways'.
This activity uses a ‘deep questioning’ approach to a plenary fieldwork activity, by asking what series of events would be necessary for the view before the pupils to be recreated. The activity can be used at a range of scales from a small quarry to
The new ELI, published today, 'Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth' is the last in this 'Earth in space' series. It involves an indoor demonstration which explains the changing seasons very clearly.
After watching the activity pupils will be able to:-
explain how the half of the Earth bathed in sunlight at any one time is experiencing day, whilst the other half is experiencing
New ELI today - 'Earth on Earth; using a globe in the sunshine to show how day/night and the seasons work'.
Pupils can use the ‘globe in the sunshine’ to:
explain how the half of the Earth bathed in sunlight at any one time is experiencing day, whilst the other half is experiencing night;
point out and explain the day/night dividing lines of dawn and dusk;
show how equatorial regions
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