The new ELI today is all about visualising deep time 'The origin of the Earth – at arm’s length; the age of the Earth – with a good stretch of imagination'.
Visualising deep time is extremely difficult. This activity provides a 'fun' way of teaching the great length of geological time. It could be used to reinforce other methods of helping pupils to understand the concept of 'deep time', e.g. during a quick-fire revision session.
Related activities about the age of the Earth can be found in the Geological time category.
1 comment:
As for the other ELIs, this is a fantastic activity.
I found and used it a few years ago during the experimentation for my PhD thesis on the teaching and learning of geological time.
Thank you for sharing!
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