The new ELI today is another is our 'picturing' series - 'Picturing tectonic structures – 2 folding: visualise and draw fold structures from a verbal description'.
These 'picturing' activities enhance pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of folded rocks at various scales.
Related activities can be found in our 'Deformation - folding and faulting' category.
Now there is a teaching video to accompany the activity we published many years ago, 'When will it blow? – predicting eruptions; how a simple tiltmeter can demonstrate the bulging of a volcano before eruption'.
Click here to find many other volcanic teaching ideas.
The new ELI today is the last in our 'net zero' emissions series - 'Landslide danger - and climate change; case studies of how landslides work and the likely effects of climate change'.
This activity is an introduction into landsliding processes and the likely impacts of climate change, using two case studies.
The rest of this series of Earthlearningideas can be found be here. Other activities about Landslides can be found in our Natural Hazards category.
The ELI Team is launching a series of new videos to accompany some of our very early Earthlearningideas. This one accompanies the very first ELI ever to be published at the end of 2007!
The activity could form part of a lesson about earthquakes and their effects. It could also form part of the preparation for the best way people should respond to an earthquake in earthquake-prone areas.
Many related activities can be found in our Natural Hazards category.
Today's ELI is all about the controversial topic of nuclear power, 'Nuclear power - harnessing the energy of the atom; investigating the use of nuclear power now and in the future'.
The various types of nuclear power stations are discussed and the future of nuclear power is considered. This is followed by a discussion about siting SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) in the local area.
More activities related to reaching net zero carbon emissions can be found here.
We continue our theme of geological time with 'The toilet roll of time; make a geological timeline to take home'.
This activity has been devised to address the common lack of knowledge about geological time. Research has shown that many people have no idea of the great length of geological time nor of the order of the key events during the geological history of the Earth.
More activities can be found in the ELI Geological time category.
The new ELI today is all about visualising deep time 'The origin of the Earth – at arm’s length; the age of the Earth – with a good stretch of imagination'.
Visualising deep time is extremely difficult. This activity provides a 'fun' way of teaching the great length of geological time. It could be used to reinforce other methods of helping pupils to understand the concept of 'deep time', e.g. during a quick-fire revision session.
Related activities about the age of the Earth can be found in the Geological time category.