Video workshop for Geography KS3 (ages 11 to 14)

The ELI Team is very pleased to announce the launch of its new video workshop. It was written to meet the English needs of KS3 Geographers but, of course, its activities are available for everyone.

Earth's surface activity - quick to very, very slow

There are twelve videos ranging from weathering, river and ice erosion, transportation and deposition, identifying rocks, evolution of life through time, quick to very slow processes and ending with brickquake and party poppers.

The powerpoint guides you through the various stages and everything, including the resources list, can be found in the workshop booklet - - in other words, everything you need to inspire the next generation of geographers! 

NEW workshop and videos for ages 9 to 11 (upper KS2 in England)

The ELI Team is pleased to announce the publication of our new Earth Science workshop and videos for ages 9 to 11, 'Active Earth, living fossil'.

New Videos and workshop for pupils aged 7 to 9

The ELI Team is pleased to announce the launch of new videos and workshop, 'Exploring rock, soil, water, fossil' for children aged 7 to 9 (UK lower KS2)

Examples of the videos:-

Earthlearningidea videos

Did you know that, as well as all the teaching videos, ELI also has many general videos from various sources; four are in Catalan, three have a Portuguese introduction and one is narrated in Norwegian.

Shell shake; survival of the fittest

Dolines! Simuleu els processos de formació de dolines en acció 

Earth's structure and Plate tectonics videos

NEW online videos. As well as the rock cycle, there are now videos about Earth's structure and Plate tectonics  All are fun to watch and to do.

Also there are two new professional development workshops, Investigating the Earth's structure and the plate tectonics story.

Virtual Rock Kit for those stuck at home

Are you stuck at home? 

No rock specimens to examine? 

Try using our  

VIRTUAL ROCK KIT.

You can now view sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks as they appear in the landscape, in hand specimen. under hand lens magnification, in thin section and even in use. The thin sections can be viewed with plane polars or cross polars.
Once you know your rocks, you can try many of the Earthlearningidea activities or watch some of our new videos. The latter show all aspects of the dynamic rock cycle so your knowledge of the rocks from the virtual rock kit will be put to good use. You could try collecting some small pieces of your local rocks as you exercise and then identify them.

Teaching videos

New ELI teaching videos! A new teaching video will be published every two weeks. Videos and question scripts will show how, by using the CASE methodology, Earthlearningideas can be used to develop critical thinking skills as well as knowledge and understanding.
 Video - Explanation of CASE
 Video - 'Atmosphere and ocean in a tank' - an example of using the CASE method of teaching


The videos plus their associated question scripts can be found on our website under ELI Teaching Videos

Earthlearningidea photo galleries

Recently a member of the ELI team has organised workshops for teachers in Rwanda. They were doing one of the new activities which will be published on our website soon.

We have added the photos to the photo gallery which is now quite extensive.
If you have any photos of Earthlearningideas in action, please send them to us for the gallery. All the activities can be found on the website.

Translations of Earthlearningideas

We have recently published a graph showing all the translations of Earthlearningideas.

At the end of 2017 Earthlearningidea included 1199 activities,

277 in English

922 translations from English

The Earthlearningidea Team thanks all those people who are translating the activities. All the work is on a voluntary basis and we are extremely grateful, as are teachers all over the world.

Thank you! 

The graph and the map above can be found under ELI around the world on our website.

 

3 million downloads / ELI translations

3 million activity downloads! 

The ELI team is delighted to announce that by the end of March 2017, there have been 3 million activity downloads. We should like to thank all the volunteers involved in this project, especially all of our translators and, of course, all of our users. Hopefully lots of pupils have enjoyed trying out the ideas in Earth science or geography lessons.

To all Educators:
One of our German translators who teaches in a University of Education recommends that other educators follow his example and ask their university students to translate one Earthlearningidea and present it to the other students as part of their course. These translations are then checked and finally added to the website.

Japanese translations
Our Japanese colleagues have added 32 translations to the site; incredible. Many, many thanks.

NEW - Earth Learning Idea translations into Japanese!

We are delighted to announce that ELI activities are now being translated into Japanese. There are 60 plus activities already on the site with 100 planned by Easter. We are extremely grateful to our colleagues in Japan for doing this for us, especially as all their work is on a voluntary basis.
This image shows a sample from the new Japanese web page:-

 

You can also access the new Japanese translations from the home page of our website - ELI translations.

Record number of activity downloads in February

We have just completed our monthly analysis of Earthlearningidea and are very pleased to announce another record. There were 63,176 downloads of our activities in all our translated languages across the world in February.

Further details may be found on the ELI in the world page of the website.
Many thanks to our hundreds of supporters. Please keep the ideas coming!

Major upgrade to Earthlearningidea website

Because we now have so many activities, teachers' ideas and video clips on the website, we have been developing better ways of searching for what you want.
The Search engine has been re-written and is now fast and accurate.

We have also re-written the alphabetical index. All activities are now 'clickable' from here and any teachers' ideas (extensions) and video clips are included.
A sample is shown below; please try it out on the website.

Please report any problems to us at info@earthlearningidea.com

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Earthlearningidea is moving to a new and more powerful server.
The content is identical.
The main entry point remains http://www.earthlearningidea.com.
Some users are accessing the old site with direct links to the pdf downloads.
Please will these users update their links and bookmarks as the old server will be turned off in about one week's time.

ELI now in Polish!

 Polski

We are very pleased indeed to announce that Earthlearningideas are now being translated into Polish.
Click on the link on the home page of our website. All the activities in the Natural Hazards category have now been translated.
Many thanks to our friends in Poland.

ELI website down

We are very sorry; the ELI website is down at the moment.
Hopefully, it will be up and running again very soon.
Please contact us and we will forward any pdfs that you require.

ELI is now on Facebook

 ELI is now on Facebook. Please have a look at this very new page and write a comment or just 'like' it! We will improve it as, hopefully, we get better at using it. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Also, we have just published our latest map of the countries and towns/cities that ELI has reached in the world. You can view this in 'ELI in the world' on our website.

Teaching strategies and Fun sessions

We have added new pages to our website -

TEACHING STRATEGIES - we know this page does not look very exciting but it lists activities teachers could use if they are teaching any of the topics mentioned. As we have so many activities on the site now, we thought it might be useful for teachers to be able to find quickly suitable activities for a particular topic. Please have a look at the list and let us know what you think either by comment on this post or by email. Also, if you have ideas for other topics, please let us know.

CHILDREN'S FUN SESSIONS - this page lists fun activities for children to do on special science days, in museum sessions, on open days or at any time when they want to have fun and learn something too. Any comments or suggestions about these will be gratefully received too.

Incorrect links

For a reason unknown to us at the moment, any link beyond the Earthlearningidea home page is not working. If you require, or already have, links to the pdfs, please go to the ELI home page and use the search facilities from there.
Our next ELI is 'Take it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate. This will be published next Tuesday, 13th March.
Earthlearningidea team

Earthlearningidea in 2011

Earthlearningidea has continued to grow in 2011. In March we published our 100th activity with "'Crystallisation' in a pudding dish" and in October the number of downloads of our activities passed half a million. Also in 2011, our activities started to be translated into Portuguese and German. We shall continue to publish a new activity every two weeks throughout 2012.
For this last post of the year, the Earthlearningidea team would like to thank all the people who have made these achievements possible.

Thank you!