Earth Learning Idea

Today we are continuing to look at footprints with 'T he meeting of the dinosaurs - 100 million years ago; t he evidence given by dinos...

Our new ELI today is 'What were the animals doing? Interpreting footprints and other marks in the sand.' Footprints and other traces...

Our ELI today is 'Curious creatures; using fossil and modern evidence to work out the lifestyles of extinct animals'. This activity ...

And now for something completely different . . . ' The ups and downs of ammonites; h ow did ammonites adjust their position in the sea...

We continue our fossils theme with 'Who ate the ammonite? - a Jurassic food web - from fossil evidence'. This activity could be incl...

 Today the new ELI is another in the 'picturing' series - - - 'Picturing Fossils 2: visualise and draw fossils from a verbal de...

Continuing our preservation theme . . . 'How could I become fossilised? Thinking through fossilisation in the context of me or you'....

The new ELI today is 'From hard-boiled eggs to bog bodies; an investigation into the effects of tannin and mild acid'. Exceptional p...

New ELI -  'Scary scorpions; make your own scorpion and imagine how it lived'. This ELI gives an introduction to fossil aquatic scor...

Continuing our fossils theme - - 'Curious creatures; using fossil and modern evidence to work out the lifestyles of extinct animals...

The new ELI today is another in our 'picturing' series - 'Picturing Fossils -1: visualise and draw fossils from a verbal descri...

A good activity for the summer in a sand pit or on the beach is 'Dig up the dinosaur; become a fossil hunter and dig up a dinosaur'...

The new ELI today is 'Let’s weigh that dinosaur! How can a plastic model reveal the mass of an actual dinosaur?' This Earthlearning...

New ELI today  'Extinction mystery; what did kill the dinosaurs?' This activity is a card sorting exercise involving deciding which...

'Shell shake – survival of the toughest; why is the fossil record incomplete?' Video link Pupils deliberately smash a va...

'How did ammonites adjust their position in the sea? - The ups and downs of ammonites' This clever demonstration shows how some ...

'Trace fossils – burrows or borings; what evidence do living organisms leave behind in rocks?' This activity invites pupils to ...

Sea shell survival; how are common sea shells adapted to their habitats? This activity gives an an introduction to the relationship be...

A popular ELI is 'Running the fossilisation film backwards; bringing a fossil ‘back to life’' This is a thought experiment, inc...

'The meeting of the dinosaurs - 100 million years ago; the evidence given by dinosaur footprints' Fossil tracks, such as footpr...