The new ELI today is 'Picturing igneous rocks – 2; visualise and draw igneous rocks from a verbal description'.
Other activities about igneous rocks can be found in the Alaphabetical index.
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.
The latest in our net zero emissions target series is 'Liquid biofuels - keeping our wheels turning into the future: investigating fuels produced from biomass'.
The activity describes the use of biomass to produce biofuels. It investigates both first and second generation biofuels. The latter are currently undergoing extensive research and it is hoped that in the future they will replace petrol (gasoline) entirely.
Other activities in this series can be found in our environment category.
This activity can be included in lessons on the rock cycle to model the cooling and crystallisation of magma to form igneous rocks.
Other related activities can be found in Igneous processes.
Today our new Earthlearningidea is a very good revision exercise of igneous rocks, 'Picturing igneous rocks – 1; visualise and draw igneous rocks from a verbal description'.
This game enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of igneous rocks and scenery. It is also great fun and can result in some very strange drawings!
Other related activities can be found in the category, Earth materials - Rocks'.
The ELI today is one of our ELI Early years series, 'Fossilise! A game showing how fossils form and survive.'
The game can be played in any science or geography lesson and has cross curricular links with literacy and numeracy.
Other Earthlearningideas in this series can be found in the ELI Early years resources.
The new ELI today is the latest in our 'net zero' emissions target series - 'Farming the wind - through onshore and offshore windfarms; a discussion on the local and national potential of developing wind energy sources'.
In this activity data and perspectives on electricity generation by wind farms are provided to support a debate on their local and national potential.
All the 'net zero' emissions target Earthlearningideas can be viewed here.