The new ELI today continues the 'Essential minerals' series with 'Essential Minerals for the Green Revolution – 7 Gold: an essential mineral – or is it?'
This activity raises awareness of the main world uses of gold and the frequent abuses of human rights in some of the main gold producing countries.
Other ELIs in the series can be found in our 'Minerals' section of the Earth Materials category.
We continue our fossils theme with 'Who ate the ammonite? - a Jurassic food web - from fossil evidence'.
Many more ELIs about fossils and dinosaurs can be found in the Evolution of Life category.
Today the new ELI is another in the 'picturing' series - - - 'Picturing Fossils 2: visualise and draw fossils from a verbal description'.
This activity enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of fossils. This could form a useful revision activity and is fun to do either with photos or real specimens (which must be kept hidden).
Related activities can be found in our Evolution of life category.
Exciting competitions:
The Earthlearningidea 'Net zero' series or the series on 'Essential minerals for the Green Revolution' may give you some ideas.
Also, don't forget The Geological Society's Schools' Challenge
The new ELI today is the second in our series for students who cannot see - - 'Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI) - 2: modifying visual resources for students who cannot see.'
This activity is about making geology accessible to all. Visual resources are a key part of learning geology. The frequency of their use and the variety of types employed in teaching and assessment of geology presents a significant challenge for both teacher and learner.
A similar activity can be found in our cross-category topics.
Continuing our preservation theme . . . 'How could I become fossilised?
Thinking through fossilisation in the context of me or you'.
In this activity, pupils think through the decay processes that the human body is likely to be involved in as it moves towards fossilisation - as a means of gaining
understanding of fossilisation processes and what fossils are.
In our 'Fossils' section of the Evolution of Life category, there are many other activities.
The new ELI today is 'From hard-boiled eggs to bog bodies; an investigation into the effects of tannin and mild acid'.
Exceptional preservation of animals and plants takes place when they have fallen into peat bogs within the last 10,000 years. This activity allows pupils to investigate the effects of tannin and a mild acid in this process.
Other related activities can be found in our Evolution of Life category.