Landslide danger

"Rescuers continued their search on Saturday after a landslide in Nepal swept two passenger buses carrying over 60 people into the Trishuli River on Friday."

In view of the recent fatal landslide in Nepal, today, the ELI Team is publishing "Landslide danger – and climate change; case studies of how landslides work and the likely effects of climate change."

This ELI gives a comprehensive introduction into landsliding processes and the likely impacts of climate change. It uses two case studies.

Related Earthlearningideas can be found in the 'Landslides' group in the Natural Hazards category.

Can you recognise these landforms of mass movement?

The latest new ELI in the 'Picturing' series is 'Picturing Landforms – 5: Mass Movement B; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

This ELI enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of landforms.

Related activities can be found in our Geomorphology category but, as you will see from the table, there are many ELIs in this series.

Play the Rock Cycle game

Continuing our theme of games, today ELI presents "‘Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game; model the stages of the rock cycle - with your pupils."

This activity models the stages of the rock cycle and can be used in both science and geography lessons  - - - it is great fun!

Other related activities about the rock cycle can be found in our Rock Cycle category.

An investigation into the environmental impact of making new paper or recycled paper

The new ELI today is 'New or recycled paper? - the card game; an investigation into the environmental impact of making new paper or recycled paper'.

This activity gives a visual representation of the environmental impact of making new paper as opposed to making recycled paper.

Related activities can be found in our Resources and Environment categories,

How coastlines change shape

'Changing coastlines; investigating how wave erosion, transportation and deposition can change the shapes of coastlines'.

This activity can be used to study the processes of coastal erosion, transportation and deposition. It can also be used to investigate the problems these processes cause and the ways in  which people try to solve those problems.

Many related activities can be found in our Sedimentary processes category.

Describing and interpreting photos of mass movement.

 The new ELI today is another in our 'Picturing landforms' series, 'Picturing Landforms – 4: Mass Movement A; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

This ELI enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of landforms. They start to notice and be able to explain the landscape around them.

Other activities in the picturing landforms series can be found in Geomorphology on our website.

Using Jelly Babies(TM) cut at the dip angle to highlight structures on geological maps

The innovative ELI today is 'The sliced Jelly Babies TM approach to understanding 3D geological maps; using Jelly Babies TM cut at the dip angle to highlight structures on geological maps'.

This ELI shows the dip of fold limbs on a geological map using sliced jelly sweets to show bedding plane dips.

Methods like this one and the Earthlearningidea series ‘Mapwork from models’ can help pupils to develop spatial skills.