Earth Learning Idea

Following the deposition of sediments last week, we now move on to considering the Rock Cycle    'Laying out the rock cycle: product and...

Still on our chemistry theme, today's ELI is 'The watery world of underground chemistry; u sing pH to link the atmosphere, hydrosphe...

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

New ELI today is 'Make your own aquifer – 2 The London Basin; model the aquifers in the London Basin with sponges'.  Watch a video o...

Keeping our watery theme, have you tried - - 'Well, well, well! Making a working model of a well'? Choose one version of the model...

New ELI today 'Make your own aquifer – 1 with sponges; a clean way to demonstrate water in pores in rocks'. Teaching video This Ear...

Continuing our watery theme . . .  '"Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink"; investigating how to get clean water f...

Following the ELI 'A world in a grain of sand', the activity today is 'Sand on a sill; what will happen to a sand grain left on...

Teaching the water cycle? This morning we have another game for you to try but this time for young children - 'Watery world game; climb ...

The new Earthlearningidea today is 'Limestone springs – the wells of Wells; modelling the underground flow of water through limestone pa...

' Is the greenhouse effect happening outside today? A classroom discussion to consolidate understanding about the greenhouse effect...

From our water cycle series: 'Cycling water and heat in the lab – and the globe; demonstrating the water cycle, latent heat and global ...

New ELI today 'Lost at sea – the amazing journeys of rubber ducks around the world; studying ocean currents following the Friendly Floa...

Today's new videos are 'Laying out the rock cycle'. Pupils are asked to place a series of rock cycle products in the correc...

New ELI today ‘Tagging’ nitrogen atoms – to explore the nitrogen cycle: a thought experiment to investigate nitrogen cycle processes' ...

'The carbon cycle through the window; how much evidence of the carbon cycle can you see through the window?' The carbon cycle c...

'Laying out the rock cycle: product and process; sorting out the rock cycle products – and then adding the processes' In this ac...

From our ELI+ series - 'Under pressure: calculating the intense pressures underground' This activity uses lab measurements of ...

Today's new ELI is "From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’: investigate rocks to sort them into groups, add them to t...

New ELI today - 'Is the greenhouse effect happening outside today? A classroom discussion to consolidate understanding about the greenho...