We are continuing our plate tectonics theme with "The continental jigsaw puzzle; can you reassemble a super-continent from a ‘jigsaw puzzle’?"
Many related activities can be found in our Earth energy / processes category - Plate tectonics.
Today we are investigating tectonic plates. What are they? "Chocolate Plates; simulating the properties of a lithospheric plate".
Many related plate tectonic activities can be found in our Plate tectonics category.
Today's ELI is 'Mighty river in a small gutter; sediments on the move'.
Other related activities can be found in our Sedimentary Processes category.
Our ELI for today is 'Weathering- rocks breaking up and breaking down; Matching pictures and descriptions of weathered rocks with the processes of weathering that formed them'.
This activity encourages pupils to study the appearance of weathered rocks and to understand the processes which produce weathering.
Related activities can be found in our Sedimentary processes in our Earth energy / processes category.
We thought you would enjoy a fun activity as we end our magnetism and plate tectonics series. 'Hands on magnetic stripes; demonstrating how oceanic ridge magnetic stripes form, with several pairs of hands'.
Related activities can be found in our Plate tectonics and Magnetism categories.
Today's new ELI is 'Mapping Magnetic Anomalies; modelling the palaeomagnetic evidence for plate tectonic boundaries on the ocean floor'.
This ELI involves modelling plate boundaries (divergent and transform) from a simulated geomagnetic data survey. Students can describe how the pattern of magnetic stripes was collected from ocean exploration surveys and they can identify evidence of plate boundaries from the pattern of palaeomagnetic anomalies. They can also explain that magnetic anomalies and magnetic stripes are associated with reversals in the Earth’s geomagnetic field.
Related activities can be found in the following topics on our website, Magnetism, Plate tectonics and Oceanography.
Today we consider 'Hotspots; modelling the movement of a plate across the globe'.
The ELI today is 'Magnetic stripes; modelling the symmetrical magnetic pattern of the rocks of the sea floor.'
We continue our ocean floor theme with 'Model a spreading ocean floor offset by transform faults; a model of the transform fault ‘steps’ in oceanic ridges and their magnetic stripes'.
Today's ELI is 'Continental split – the opening of the Atlantic Ocean; modelling how the continents moved, from Pangaea to today'.
This is a scissors and paper activity modelling the relative positions and movements of the continents as the ocean floor spreads either side of an oceanic ridge.
Other activities related to constructive or divergent plate margins can be seen in our Plate Tectonics category.
Related activities can be found in 'Sedimentary processes' in the Earth energy/processes category.
This ELI is a scissors and paper activity modelling the relative positions and movements of the continents as the ocean floor spreads either side of an oceanic ridge.
Many related Earthlearningideas can be found in our Plate tectonics category.
'A world in a grain of sand’ - what can a grain of sand tell us about its past?
This ELI is a ‘thought experiment’ on erosion, transportation and deposition.
For younger ages, it could be used to write a story or draw a cartoon about the life of
Sandy Grain. Start with a grain of sand on a beach, and describe where it has come from and what will happen to it.
Related activities can be found in 'Sedimentary processes' and 'ELI Early years'.
The new ELI today is 'Folds and faults with puff pastry and chocolate; understanding folds and faults in cross section and on a geological map'.
This activity models the formation of folds and then of faults using the Catalonian pre-Pyrenees as an example in the real world.
It's in the ELI category of Deformation - folding and faulting where you can find a wide selection of related activities.
Continuing our minerals theme . . . "Interactive hydrothermal mineralisation:‘The rock with the hole’ hydrothermal mineralisation demo".
This ELI is a demonstration of how hydrothermal fluids flow through rocks. It is presented in a way to interact with pupils.
Click here to find more Earthlearningideas related to igneous processes.
The new ELI today is 'Building silicates; simulating crystal size during the cooling of magma and during recrystallisation in solid rock'.
This Earthlearningidea is a consolidation exercise to show how cooling/recrystallisation rates might explain crystal size in igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Related activities can be found in the categories 'Igneous processes' and 'Metamorphic processes'.
Lots more ELIs related to plate tectonics can be found here.
The new ELI today is 'Coastal erosion; what controls the form of a coastline and the steepness of its cliffs?'
There are many related activities in our sedimentary processes category.
The new ELI+ today is fun to do - 'Hands on magnetic stripes; demonstrating how oceanic ridge magnetic stripes form with several pair of hands'.
This activity works well as a consolidation activity, particularly following the Earthlearningidea, ‘Magnetic stripes’ which demonstrates how magnetic stripes form using a striped piece of paper with magnetised pins pulled out of a gap between two tables.
Click on Plate tectonics to find many other related Earthlearningideas.
