Alligators spotted in London

'Back in time, “Alligators spotted in London” @ELI_Earth - July 1 

Retrieving and communicating information'.

 

 

Pupils obtain information and use it to interpret past environments. The activity could be used in science, geography or environmental studies lessons. Writing the story involves a cross-curricular link with the arts.

 Other related activities may be found in 'Visualising deep time' and in Cross-Curricular ELIs.

River erosion - potholes

'A bucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation: modelling river pothole-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions.'

This activity seeks to mimic the mode of formation of potholes in order to provoke calculation and discussion around the processes involved.

Other ELIs involving some maths can be found in our Cross-Category topics. 

Create your own geo-music . . . . or . . . . geo-art, geo-poetry . . . .

Have you tried our cross-curricular ELIs? For example, 'Geo-music - music inspired by all things ‘geo’: create your own geo-music'.

Much of our great music was and is inspired by the natural world. This activity encourages pupils to listen to such music and to compose their own.

This activity creates a cross-curricular link between the sciences and arts and is one of six in the series - - to be found in our Cross-curricular ELIs.