Today our new Earthlearningidea is a very good revision exercise of igneous rocks, 'Picturing igneous rocks – 1; visualise and draw igneous rocks from a verbal description'.
This game enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of igneous rocks and scenery. It is also great fun and can result in some very strange drawings!
Other related activities can be found in the category, Earth materials - Rocks'.
The ELI today is one of our ELI Early years series, 'Fossilise! A game showing how fossils form and survive.'
The game can be played in any science or geography lesson and has cross curricular links with literacy and numeracy.
Other Earthlearningideas in this series can be found in the ELI Early years resources.
The new ELI today is the latest in our 'net zero' emissions target series - 'Farming the wind - through onshore and offshore windfarms; a discussion on the local and national potential of developing wind energy sources'.
In this activity data and perspectives on electricity generation by wind farms are provided to support a debate on their local and national potential.
All the 'net zero' emissions target Earthlearningideas can be viewed here.
Following the ELI 'A world in a grain of sand', the activity today is 'Sand on a sill; what will happen to a sand grain left on a window sill? – a rock cycle discussion'.
This ELI involves a pupil group discussion based on what will happen to a sand grain left on a window sill. This activity has been devised to encourage pupils to think about rock cycle processes in the context of the area outside their own school.
Related activities about the rock cycle can be found here.