Author: tsawa
#192 Earth on Earth
Using a globe in the sunshine to show how day/night and the seasons...
#191 Hot or not?
Investigating how latitude affects the amount of solar radiation...
#162 Eclipse the lollipop
Modelling eclipses of the moon and the Sun with a ball, lollipops and a bright...
#193 Seasons: – the effect of our tilted Earth
An indoor demonstration explaining the changing...
#160 Lollipop moon
Modelling the phases of the moon with a ball, lollipops and a bright...
#158 Polystyrene moon
Visualising the phases of the moon using a ball on a...
#092 Playground planets
Modelling the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the...
#056 Why does the Sun disappear?
Demonstrate what happens when the Moon hides the...
#8 Why does soil get washed away?
Investigating why some farmers lose their soil through erosion whilst others do...
#175 Which power source? – solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)
Searching for all the power sources that could be developed in a mythical...
#228 Where does offshore oil come from?
An activity to dispel misconceptions about the source of...
#108 What am I made of? (ELI+)
A comparison between the chemistry of the human body and the rest of the...
#139 Well, well, well!
Making a working model of a...
#144 Water – a matter of taste or a taste of matter?
Is all water the...
#024 Trapped! Why can’t oil and gas escape from their underground prison?
Demonstrate how oil and gas can be trapped in reservoir rocks beneath the...
#127 Take it or leave it? – the geoconservation debate
When is collecting wrong, and when is it right? - try to decide for...
#218 So, you want to conserve a geodiversity site
What could you do if you wanted to conserve a geoscience...
#48 Rocks to eat?
How we get the elements we need to stay...
#95 Rock power: geothermal power simulations (ELI+)
Modelling geothermal power sources - renewable or...
#69 Riches in the river
Investigating how valuable ores may become concentrated on river...
#36 Quarry through the window – what would you see, what would you not see?
Asking pupils to ‘picture’ what a ‘quarry through the window” might look...
#57 Power through the window
Which power source might be built in the view you can see from your...
#64 Make your own oil and gas reservoir
Demonstrating how oil and water flow through permeable...
#128 Hydrothermal mineralisation – interactive (ELI+)
‘The rock with the hole’ hydrothermal mineralization...
#164 Gold prospectors
Panning for ‘gold’ in river...
#54 From rain to spring: water from the ground
Demonstrating how water flows through the ground - and how it can be used and...
#67 ‘Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink’
Investigating how to get clean water from dirty ‘pond’...
#3 Tsunami through the window – what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what a tsunami through the window might look...
#45 Tsunami
What controls the speed of a tsunami...
#19 Surviving an earthquake
Learn the earthquake drill and increase your chances of...
#185 Sink hole!
Demonstrate sink hole processes in...
#112 Shaken but not stirred?
How earthquakes affect...
#1 Quake shake – will my home collapse?
When an earthquake strikes - investigate why some buildings survive and others do...
#015 Landslide through the window – what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what a landslide through the window might look...
#114 Krakatoa – The balloon goes up at Krakatoa
Using a tank and balloon to simulate the huge tsunamis caused by the eruption of...
#34 Flood through the window – what would you see, how would you feel?
Pupils picture for themselves what a major flood through the window might look...
#42 Eruption through the window
How could an eruption transform your view?- lava, ash, lahar or something...
#18 Earthquake through the window – what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what an earthquake through the window might look...
#49 Earthquake prediction – when will the earthquake strike?
Modelling the build-up of stress and sudden release in the Earth that creates...
#141 Working out the age of the Earth – moving backwards as time moved forwards
Link up your own timeline of how scientists worked out the age of the...
#41 Where shall we drill for oil?
Sorting out the sequence - oil...
#20 Laying down the principles
Sequencing the events that form rocks through applying stratigraphic...
#149 How many for a million?
How many sheets of graph paper for 1 million, or 100 million, or 1000 million...
#150 How long does it take?
Sorting out Earth events according to the time they...
#109 William Smith – ‘The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)
Thinking like William...
#197 Why won’t my compass work on the other side of the Equator? (ELI+)
Understanding the three-dimensional magnetic field of the...
#2 When will it blow? – predicting eruptions
How a simple tiltmeter can demonstrate the bulging of a volcano before...
#235 What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
Bringing a depositional environment to life using evidence from sedimentary...
#40 What is the geological history?
Sequencing events to reveal a history using simple stratigraphic...
#77 Waves in the Earth 2 – Human molecules (ELI+)
Pupils are pushed around to demonstrate the properties of seismic...
#76 Waves in the Earth 1 – the slinky simulation (ELI+)
Using a long spring to find out how earthquake waves travel through the...
#110 Take a ‘Chance’ on the volcano erupting (ELI+)
How hazardous is the...
#237 Questions for any rock face 9: metamorphic rock
What questions about metamorphism might be asked at any metamorphic rock...
#90 Party time for volcanoes! (ELI+)
How much force does it take to set off a party popper...
#130 Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks
Opening geological maps to the...
#129 Opengeoscience 1: igneous intrusions and lavas
Opening geological maps to the...
#215 Karstic scenery – in 60 seconds
Modelling the chemical weathering of...
#196 Journey to the centre of the Earth – on a toilet roll
Just how thin is the crust we live...
#133 Jigging
Using density to separate different...
#98 Geological postcards 2 – sandstone and limestone
Picture postcard...
#97 Geological postcards 1 – granite and chalk
Picture postcard...
#138 Geological mapwork: using surface geology to make a geological map (ELI+)
Match the photos to a map to see how a geological map...
#105 Geological mapwork from scratch 3: valley with dipping geology (ELI+)
Draw your own cross sections and 3D geological...
#102 Geological mapwork from scratch 2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)
#102 Geological mapwork from scratch 2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)...
#101 Geological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
Draw your own cross sections - of increasing...
#125 Geological mapwork from models 8: plain with different types of fault (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a flat region with faulted...
#124 Geological mapwork from models 7: plain with faults parallel to the outcrops of the beds (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a flat region with faulted...
#123 Geological mapwork from models 6: plain with faults in the direction of dip (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a flat region with faulted...
#116 Geological mapwork from models 5: folded geology on block models (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of areas with folded...
#113 Geological mapwork from models 4: sloping ridge and valley (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a sloping ridge/valley...
#111 Geological mapwork from models 3: valley with horizontal floor (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a valley with a horizontal...
#107 Geological mapwork from models 2: cuesta with simple geology (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a...
#106 Geological mapwork from models 1: plain with simple geology (ELI+)
Draw and make your own 3D models of the geology of a flat...
#79 Geobattleships (ELI+)
Do earthquakes and volcanoes...
#74 From clay balls to the structure of the Earth (ELI+)
A discussion of how physics can be used to probe Earth’s...
#59 From an orange to the whole Earth
Using an orange to model different densities of the Earth’s...
#233 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 8: faults
What questions about faults might be asked at any rock...
#232 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 7: tilted or folded rocks
What questions about tilted or folded rocks might be asked at any rock...
#231 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 6: fossils
What questions about fossils might be asked at any rock...
#229 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 5: sedimentary grains
What questions about sedimentary grains might be asked at any rock...
#227 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)
What questions about the type of rock might be asked at any rock...
#226 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 3: soil
What questions about soil might be asked at any rock...
#222 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 2: erosion
What questions about erosion might be asked at any rock...
#221 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 1: weathering
What questions about weathering might be asked at any rock...
#220 Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face – Planning for fieldwork
Preparing your pupils before setting out to “ask questions for any rock...
#223 Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
Activities using simple transportable apparatus to simulate features in the...
#187 Fieldwork: Applying ‘the present is the key to the past’
An outdoor activity to apply the present to the past - using Earth science-thinking in...
#203 Fieldwork: ‘All powerful’ strategy
Discussing geological histories in imaginative...
#96 Electrical ground probing
Measuring the electrical resistance of the ground to find buried...
#26 Earth science out-of-doors: preserving the evidence
What evidence of the present times might we find in a million years from...
#136 Do-it-yourself dip and strike model (with DIY clinometer) (ELI+)
Using a model to measure and understand dip, dip direction, strike and apparent...
#63 Darwin’s ‘big coral atoll idea’
Try thinking like Darwin did to solve the coral atoll...
#142 Who ate the ammonite?
A Jurassic food web - from fossil...
#37 What was it like to be there? – bringing a fossil to life
A series of questions to bring fossils, and the environments in which they lived, to...
#65 Trail-making
Making your own "fossil" animal...
#186 Trace fossils – burrows or borings
What evidence do living organisms leave behind in...
#234 Toilet roll of time
Make a geological timeline to take...
#32 Time-line in your own backyard
Hang pictures of the important events in the history of life on a string...
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