Today, we are continuing our theme of 'Essential Minerals for the Green Revolution with Copper: an element for which the demand is increasing rapidly'.
This ELI involves an investigation into the need to increase mining for copper as demand rises abruptly and ores of lean (low) grade have to be used.
Click here for other Earthlearningideas about minerals.
An ELI Early years activity: 'Found in the ground: sorted! An introduction to classification using things ‘found in the ground’
Teaching video to accompany the activity
This activity may be used in any lesson where the principles of classification are required. It forms a useful basis for further activities in Earth science.
In the ELI Early years category, there are many other ideas.
The new ELI today is 'Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI): modifying block models to teach map-work to students who cannot see'.
This activity describes how geology can be made accessible to all students. It will be followed by other ideas of how to teach students with visual impairment
New teaching videos to accompany two popular Earthlearningideas:
'Geological postcards 1 – granite and chalk'' and
'Geological postcards 2 – sandstone and limestone
Picture postcard puzzles'
Many, many activities about rocks can be found in our Earth Materials category - just search for 'Rocks' in 'Topics'.