Earth Energy/Processes #235 What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life tsawa6/19/20160 Bringing a depositional environment to life using evidence from sedimentary...
Earth Energy/Processes #237 Questions for any rock face 9: metamorphic rock tsawa6/19/20160 What questions about metamorphism might be asked at any metamorphic rock...
Earth Energy/Processes #215 Karstic scenery – in 60 seconds tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling the chemical weathering of...
Earth Energy/Processes #94 Why do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes? (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Simulating crystallisation from a melt at different rates of...
Earth Energy/Processes #217 What drives the plates? tsawa6/19/20160 Using a pupil model to demonstrate that slab pull is the main plate-driving...
Earth Energy/Processes #91 Wegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’ (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 How Wegener’s continental drift evidence matches up with evidence for plate...
Earth Energy/Processes #214 Weathering limestone – with my own breath! tsawa6/19/20160 A classroom demonstration of how limestone is...
Earth Energy/Processes #46 Weathering – rocks breaking up and breaking down tsawa6/19/20160 Matching pictures and descriptions of weathered rocks with the processes of weathering that formed...
Earth Energy/Processes #89 Volcano in the lab (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling igneous processes in wax and...
Earth Energy/Processes #145 Volcano and dykes/jelly and cream – radial dykes (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Intruding cream radial ‘dykes’ into jelly ‘volcanoes’ until they...
Earth Energy/Processes #16 Valley in 30 seconds – pulling rocks apart tsawa6/19/20160 Investigating faulting in an empty...
Earth Energy/Processes #99 Unfair ‘build your own crystal’ race (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 A crystal building ‘race’ showing the greater the time available, the larger the...
Earth Energy/Processes #207 Teacher – ‘What’s the difference between weathering and erosion?’ tsawa6/19/20160 Addressing common misconceptions about weathering and...
Earth Energy/Processes #51 Squeezed out of shape tsawa6/19/20160 Detecting the distortion after rocks have been affected by Earth...
Earth Energy/Processes #38 See how they run tsawa6/19/20160 Investigate why some lavas flow further and more quickly than...
Earth Energy/Processes #179 Sedimentary structures – sole marks tsawa6/19/20160 Evidence from the base of a sedimentary...
Earth Energy/Processes #184 Sedimentary structures – load casts tsawa6/19/20160 Interpreting odd bumps on the bases of...
Earth Energy/Processes #181 Sedimentary structures – imbrication tsawa6/19/20160 Which way did the river...
Earth Energy/Processes #177 Sedimentary structures – graded bedding tsawa6/19/20160 Make your own graded bed - one depositional event, but with coarse to fine...
Earth Energy/Processes #195 Sedimentary structures – cross-bedding and ancient currents tsawa6/19/20160 Using cross bedding to find the directions of ancient...
Earth Energy/Processes #194 Sedimentary structures – cross-bedding and ‘way-up’ tsawa6/19/20160 Using cross bedding to determine the way-up of a bed of sedimentary...
Earth Energy/Processes #66 Sandcastles and slopes tsawa6/19/20160 What makes sandcastles and slopes...
Earth Energy/Processes #11 Sand ripple marks in a washbowl tsawa6/19/20160 How asymmetrical ripple marks form in...
Earth Energy/Processes #12 Sand ripple marks in a tank tsawa6/19/20160 How symmetrical ripple marks form in...
Earth Energy/Processes #230 Rolling, hopping floating and invisibly moving along tsawa6/19/20160 Investigating how sediment is transported by...
Earth Energy/Processes #21 Rock, rattle and roll tsawa6/19/20160 Investigating the resistance of rocks to erosion by shaking in a plastic...
Earth Energy/Processes #88 Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 What might you see through a window or porthole at an active plate...
Earth Energy/Processes #87 Plate riding (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Role-play plate-surfing to ask: ‘How is the plate you live on moving...
Earth Energy/Processes #82 Partial melting – simple process, huge global impact (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 How partial melting, coupled with plate tectonics, has changed the chemistry of our...
Earth Energy/Processes #84 Model a spreading ocean floor offset by transform faults tsawa6/19/20160 A model of the transform fault ‘steps’ in oceanic ridges and their magnetic...
Earth Energy/Processes #43 Metamorphism – that’s Greek for ‘change of shape’ isn’t it? tsawa6/19/20160 What changes can we expect when rocks are put under great pressure in the...
Earth Energy/Processes #121 Merry waves – all year round (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling how the energy of seismic waves is...
Earth Energy/Processes #118 Margarine mountain-building tsawa6/19/20160 Making mountains every time you make a...
Earth Energy/Processes #86 Mantle plume in a beaker (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling processes at a constructive (divergent) plate...
Earth Energy/Processes #27 Make your own rock tsawa6/19/20160 Investigating how loose sediment may be stuck together to form a...
Earth Energy/Processes #81 Magnetic stripes (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling the symmetrical magnetic pattern of the rocks of the sea...
Earth Energy/Processes #93 James Hutton – or ‘Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Thinking towards the rock cycle, the Hutton...
Earth Energy/Processes #205 Isostasy 1 (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling the state of ‘balance’ of the Earth’s outer...
Earth Energy/Processes #180 Ice power (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Freezing water in a syringe to measure...
Earth Energy/Processes #208 Hotspots (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling the movement of a plate across the...
Earth Energy/Processes #9 Himalayas in 30 seconds! tsawa6/19/20160 Making a miniature fold mountain range in an empty...
Earth Energy/Processes #122 Fluids, friction and failure tsawa6/19/20160 How can unseen fluids affect the movement along faults and glacier...
Earth Energy/Processes #210 Falling slopes tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling how rock cliffs and slopes can...
Earth Energy/Processes #104 Evidence from the deep freeze tsawa6/19/20160 Photographs of glacial and periglacial...
Earth Energy/Processes #117 Danger – quicksands! tsawa6/19/20160 Why do some rocks give way when it rains...
Earth Energy/Processes #47 Cracking the clues tsawa6/19/20160 Making your own cracking clues to the Earth’s...
Earth Energy/Processes #71 Cracking apart (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Simulating the weathering or rocks in a desert...
Earth Energy/Processes #83 Continents in collision (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling processes at a destructive (convergent) plate...
Earth Energy/Processes #198 Continental split – the opening of the Atlantic Ocean tsawa6/19/20160 Modelling how the continents moved, from Pangaea to...
Earth Energy/Processes #85 Continental jigsaw puzzle (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Can you reassemble a supercontinent from a ‘jigsaw...
Earth Energy/Processes #148 Collapsing volcanoes – cauldron subsidence (ELI+) tsawa6/19/20160 Forming circular ‘cauldron subsidence’ in jelly...
Earth Energy/Processes #73 Changing coastlines tsawa6/19/20160 Investigating how wave erosion, transportation and deposition can change the shapes of...
Earth Energy/Processes #126 Bubble-mania tsawa6/19/20160 The bubbling clues to magma viscosity and...
Earth Energy/Processes #100 ‘Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish tsawa6/19/20160 Simulating the formation and growth of crystal...