Climate change and ice core evidence

'How can the ice core evidence for climate change be explained? - an educational opportunity for discussing evidence, hypotheses and possible responses'.

This ELI gives an opportunity to demonstrate how a complex scientific topic can be used in the classroom to show how science depends upon evidence and interpretation.

Related activities can be found in our Environment category

How salty is the Dead Sea?

'Why is the Dead Sea dead? - measuring salinity'. 

This ELI is a classroom activity to measure the density of water of different salinities. Students can describe how dissolving salt in water increases the density of the water.

Related topics can be found in our Environment category.

Rising sea levels

'How will rising sea level affect our coastlines? ... and what can be done to adapt to rising sea levels?'

This ELI involves a discussion of how climate change projections might affect sea level and what the impacts of sea level rise are likely to be, particularly for coastal cities, inhabited deltas and atoll communities. Possible adaptation methods are also considered.

Many activities related to climate change and how we might adapt can be found in our Climate change category

Planning a geological survey

New ELI today -  'Mystery Isle; plan a geological survey of a fascinating island'.

Pupils are asked to use their first day on an island to “get their eyes in” and to plan for further investigations. When completed they can apply the main principles of geology to a new situation, interpret geological evidence from photographs and explain the problems of using initial information to form firm conclusions about the geology.

Many more activities related to mapwork can be found in our 'Investigating the Earth' category.

Sensory treasure hunt

Today we continue with our ELI Early Years activities with 'Sensory treasure hunt; using senses to match objects with similar properties'.

This activity helps children to learn particular properties of a variety of objects. They can choose the objects themselves but try to encourage them to choose those with a variety of properties.

There are other activities suitable for children in our ELI Early Years category. Please let us know how you get on.

 

Sorting out the pebbles on a beach or anywhere you can find some

Have you ever tried putting the different pebbles you can find into families? Here are some ideas: 'Rock Explorers; putting rocks into families'.

In this ELI Early Years activity, as Rock Explorers, children investigate a variety of rocks and sort them into groups. They can sort rocks/fossils into groups using a range of criteria e.g. shape, size, colour, how heavy they feel. They can then create their own forms of classification.

Other ELI Early Years activities can be found in our Cross-Curricular activities.

If you suddenly arrived somewhere, what clues do you need to work out what the climate is like?

Continuing the climate theme of last week, today's ELI is 'Climate on arrival; if you suddenly arrived somewhere – what would tell you what the climate was like?'

This activity involves looking for features that might be indicators of the current climate. It explains the difference between 'climate' and 'weather'.

Related activities about climate and climate change can be found in our Resources and Environment category.