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Topics in Earthlearningidea activities are listed alphabetically under ’Keywords’.
ELI+ activities require some basic school laboratory equipment or include some abstract ideas

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Keywords - alphabeticalName of Activity
A
Absolute dating 1. Working out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
2. Radioactive dating  Video
Acid test for mineralsMineral expert - 2  Teaching video
Adaptations to environment1. Fifty million years into the future  Box School animals
2. Sea shell survival  Teaching video
3. How many Beany Beetles? - the evolution game
Age of the EarthGeological time (ELI category)
Agriculture - adaptation to climate changeAdaptation of agriculture
AggregateRoadstone - which rock?
Airey isostasy hypothesisIsostasy 1 (ELI+)  Teaching video
Ammonite 1. Who ate the ammonite?  Extension
2. Ammonites: the ups and downs
Anning, MaryMary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
AnthropoceneGeological time and the Anthropocene?
Anticline - antiform 1. Banana benders  Video
2. Swiss roll surgery
3. Right way up or upside down? - modelling anti- and synforms by hand
4. Visualising plunging folds - with your hands and a piece of paper
5. Picturing tectonic structures - folding
6. Folds and faults with puff pastry and chocolate
Aquifer Make your own aquifer - 1 with sponges  Teaching video
Make your own aquifer - 2 The London Basin  Teaching video
Art 1. Geo-art: paintings to sculptures inspired by all things ‘geo’
2. Earthquakes in art
AsteroidNatural hazards in your area?
AsthenosphereJourney to the centre of the Earth - on a toilet roll  Teaching video
AstronomyAstronomical umbrella
Atlantic Ocean - openingContinental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
Atmosphere; one of Earth’s four interacting spheresWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
Atmosphere - evolutionEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution (ELI+)
Atmosphere and ocean - investigating fluid movement1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
3. Rubber ducks at sea
Atoms 1. ‘Tag’ a carbon atom - and explore the carbon cycle
2. ‘Tagging’ nitrogen atoms - and explore the nitrogen cycle
Atomic lattices - crystal growth 1. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
2. ’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
3. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
Avalanche 1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
B
BatteriesAdvances in battery technology
Bedding 1. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
2. Catastrophic processes - beds
3. How do sedimentary beds form?
4. Wriggling toes on ancient bedding planes
BiodiversityContinents versus biodiversity (ELI+)
Biofuels 1. Biofuels
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Biosphere; one of Earth’s four interacting spheresWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
Bivalves - adaptations to habitatsSea shell survival  Teaching video
Black smokersInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Bog bodiesBog bodies
BoreholesBoring chocolate!
Borings - trace fossilsTrace fossils - burrows or borings  Teaching video
Bowen's Reaction Series Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)
BrineWhy is the Dead Sea dead?
Building insulation (‘net zero’ emissions target)Building insulation
Building materialsRock around your school (investigating building materials)  Teaching video (ELI Early years)
Building stones - resourceBuilding stones 1
Building stones - igneous rocksBuilding stones 2 - igneous
Building stones - metamorphic rocksBuilding stones 4 - metamorphic
Building stones - sedimentary rocksBuilding stones 3 - sedimentary
Buildings and earthquakes 1. Shaken but not stirred?  Teaching video
2. Modelling earthquake wave amplification  Video
Burgess Shale, CanadaCurious creatures  Video (Cambrian explosion song)
Burrows - trace fossilsTrace fossils - burrows or borings  Teaching video
C
Calcium carbonateCalcium carbonate misconceptions
CalderaCollapsing volcanoes - cauldron subsidence (ELI+)
Cambrian explosion of lifeCurious creatures  Video (Cambrian explosion song)
Carbon atom‘Tag’ a carbon atom - and explore the carbon cycle
Carbon captureCapturing carbon?
Carbon cycle - making your ownCarbon goes round and round and round
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphereEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution (ELI+)
Carbon ’thought experiments’1. ‘Tag’ a carbon atom - and explore the carbon cycle
2. Space survival: how could we survive a year in a dome?
Carbon cycle through the window ’thought experiment’Carbon cycle through the window
Carnivore/herbivore relationshipsWho ate the ammonite?  Extension
Catastrophic processes 1. Catastrophic processes - beds
2. Catastrophic natural processes
Cauldron subsidenceCollapsing volcanoes - cauldron subsidence (ELI+)
CementationMake your own rock  Extension  Teaching video
Chalk 1. Geological postcards 1 - granite and chalk  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
2. Calcium carbonate misconceptions
Changing state - waterWater - changing state  Teaching video
Chemistry; a comparison between the human body and the rest of the EarthWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
Classification - introduction 1. Found in the ground (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
2. Pirates and buried treasure (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
3. Rock Explorer (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
Clay - investigating shrinkageTesting rocks 3 - that shrinking feeling
Clay - testing the plasticityTesting rocks 2 - ’Splat!’
Cleavage in mineralsMineral expert - 1  Teaching video
Climate change
Also 'net zero' series below
1. Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
2. Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
3. Ice core evidence for climate change (ELI+)
4. Back in time
5. Modelling tipping points – by hands
6. Measuring climate change
7. Greenhouse effect
8. Melting ice and sea level change 1 - sea ice melts  Teaching video
9. Melting ice and sea level change 2 - ice caps melt  Teaching video
10. Sea level in a plastic cup
11. Ocean acidification - The other CO2 problem
Climate change: ‘net zero’ emissions target 1.How will the ‘net-zero’ target affect your local area?
2. Harnessing the power of the Sun
3. Harnessing the power of waves
4. Farming the wind - through onshore and offshore windfarms
5. Tidal energy
8. Nuclear power
7. Nuclear waste disposal
8. Biofuels
9. Blue Hydrogen - the fuel of the future?
10. Hydrogen of many colours
11. Geothermal power from ‘hot dry’ rocks
12. A new use for old coal mines
13. Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes
14. Ground source heat pumps
15. Energy from burning waste
16. Energy from buried waste
17. Capturing carbon?
18. Advances in battery technology
19. Green hydrogen
20. Storing water power
21. Gas storage underground
22. Electric vehicles - the way to go?  Video
23. Building insulation
24. Enhanced weathering  Extension
25. Let’s plant some trees
26. How will rising sea level affect our coastlines?
27. Inland flooding: a Sheffield case study
28. Landslide danger
29. The future for global agriculture
Clinometer (DIY)DIY Dip and strike model (ELI+)
Coal (power source) Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
A new use for old coal mines
Coasts, erosion, transportation, deposition 1. Changing coastlines
2. Coastal erosion
CobaltEssential minerals - cobalt
Colour of the world in the pastWhat colour was the world in the past?
Colour of mineralsMineral expert - 1  Teaching video
Compression (see also Stresses in the Earth) 1. Modelling Earth stresses with your hands
2. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
3. Deformed trilobites  Video
4. Himalayas in 30 seconds!  Extension  Teaching video  Video
5. Banana benders  Video
Condensation1. Mini-world water cycle  Teaching video  Extension
2. Watery World Game (ELI Early years)
Conduction - water cycleCycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
Conical hillGeological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
ConservationTake it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
Conservative or sliding plate margin 1. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
3. Slip-sliding away
Constructive plate margin 1. ’Mantle plume’ in a beaker (ELI+)
2. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
4. Faults in a MarsTM Bar  Video
5. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Consumers/producersWho ate the ammonite?
Continental drift 1. Continental jigsaw puzzle (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Earth time jigsaw puzzle
3. Wegener’s ’Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ’Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
4. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
5. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)   Video  Extension
6. Wandering continents
Continents/oceans patternsContinents versus biodiversity (ELI+)
Convection - water cycleCycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
Convergent plate margin1. Continents in collision (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video (Oxford Sparks)
3. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Cooling rates - crystal growth 1. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
2. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
CopperEssential minerals - copper
Coral atoll formationDarwin’s ’big coral atoll idea’  Video
Core of the Earth 1. A core activity (ELI+)
2. From an orange to the whole Earth  Teaching video  Video (Portuguese introduction)
3. From clay balls to the structure of the Earth (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
4. The heat is on (heat transfer from the core outwards)
5. Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves
Cores: ice and deep sea 1. Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
2. Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
Cracks; sedimentary and igneous structures - modelling cracks by drying and coolingCracking the clues
CratersCraters on the Moon  Extension  Impact calculator  Video (Portuguese introduction)
Critical minerals for the Green RevolutionEssential minerals - critical minerals
Cross-bedding 1. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ancient currents  Teaching video
2. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ’way-up’  Teaching video
3. Make your own cross-bedding  Teaching video
4. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
5. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
6. Picturing puzzle structures
Cross-curricular topics 1. Geo-art: paintings to sculptures inspired by all things ‘geo’
2. Geo-literature: poems and stories inspired by all things ‘geo’
3. Geo-music - music inspired by all things ‘geo’ Extension
4. Earthquakes in art
5. Back in time
6. Rocks music  Extension  Sound - Rock xylophone
Cross sectionsGeological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
Geological mapwork from scratch 2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)
Geological mapwork from scratch 3: valley with dipping geology (ELI+)
Crust of the EarthJourney to the centre of the Earth - on a toilet roll  Teaching video
Crystal formation - saltSalt of the Earth  Extension
Crystal growth and lattices 1. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
2. ’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
3. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
Crystallisation - igneous rocks 1. Why do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes? (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
3. ’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
4. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
CuestaGeological mapwork from models 2: cuesta with simple geology (ELI+)
Currents 1. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ancient currents  Teaching video
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
3. Make your own cross-bedding  Teaching video
D
Darwin, Charles 1. Darwin’s ‘big coral atoll idea’  Video
2. Darwin’s ‘big soil idea’  Video
3. How many Beany Beetles? - the evolution game
Dating the Earth 1. Working out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
2. Dating the Earth - Charles Lyell and Mount Etna 1828
3. Radioactive dating  Video
Day/NightEarth on Earth - how day/night and the seasons work
Deformation of rocks 1. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
2. Deformed trilobites  Video
3. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: deformation and metamorphism  Teaching video
Deformation of the mantleBouncing, bending, breaking (ELI+)  Teaching video
Density current - turbidity current1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
Density - Earth 1. From an orange to the whole Earth  Teaching video  Video (Portuguese introduction)
2. A core activity (ELI+)
3. Isostasy 1 (ELI+)  Teaching video
Density - minerals1. Jigging  Teaching video
2. Riches in the river  Extension
3. Gold panning  Teaching video
4. Eureka! - detecting ore the Archimedes way
5. Mineral expert - 2  Teaching video
Density - rocks and minerals - simple measurementEureka! - detecting ore the Archimedes way
Density - water of different salinities 1. Why is the Dead Sea dead?
2. Current flows through straits (Marsili model)
Deposition by rivers1. Mighty river in a small gutter  Extension  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
2. Investigating small-scale sedimentary processes AND modelling mighty rivers  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
3. From river sediment to stripy rocks
4. LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
Deposition by the seaChanging coastlines
Deposition by windDust bowl  Extension
Depositional environments 1. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
2. What layers are preserved?
Desiccation cracks 1. Cracking the clues
2. Picturing puzzle structures
Destructive plate margin1. Continents in collision (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video (Oxford Sparks)
3. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Dinosaur activities 1. Dinosaur death - did it die or was it killed?
2. Dig up the dinosaur  Extension  Video
3. Dinosaur in the yard  Extension
4. Meeting of the dinosaurs - 100 million years ago  Teaching video  Extension
5. How to weigh a dinosaur
6. Let’s weigh that dinosaur!
7. Dinosaur extinction
Dip and apparent dipDIY Dip and strike model (ELI+)
Dipping geological bedsGeological mapwork from scratch 3: valley with dipping geology (ELI+)
Divergent plate margin 1. ’Mantle plume’ in a beaker (ELI+)
2. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
4. Faults in a MarsTM Bar  Teaching video
5. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
DrumlinEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Dykes - radial, volcanic intrusionVolcanoes and radial dykes (ELI+)
E
Earth - age 1. Working out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
2. The origin of the Earth - at arm’s length
Earth in spacePlayground planets  Extension
Earth - magnetic field 1. Magnetic Earth (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Human magnets! (ELI+)
Earth - orbit and spinScreaming roller coaster
Earth - propertiesBauble quiz - festive fun for everyone
Earthquakes 1. Quake shake - will my home collapse?  Extension  Columns in Rome   Teaching video  Video
2. Earthquake prediction - when will the earthquake strike?  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
3. Earthquake through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?
4. Surviving an earthquake  Teaching video  Video
5. Earthquake in your classroom
6. Shaken but not stirred?  Teaching video
7. Modelling earthquake wave amplification  Video
8. Earthquakes in art
9. Spaghetti quakes  Teaching video
10. Slinky seismic waves demo  Teaching video
11. Natural hazards in your area?
12. Catastrophic natural processes
13. Slip-sliding away
14. Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves
Earthquakes - body waves 1. Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Merry waves - all year round (ELI+)
4. Slinky seismic waves demo  Teaching video
Earthquakes and volcanoes - plate tectonicsGeobattleships (ELI+)  Teaching video
Earth science out of doorsEarth science out of doors: preserving the evidence
Earth - structure1. From clay balls to the structure of the Earth (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves
Eclipses1. Eclipse the lollipop
2. Why does the sun disappear?
3. Eclipse from the moon?
Electric vehicles (‘net zero’ emissions target)Electric vehicles - the way to go?
Electrical resistanceElectrical ground probing
Elements - chemicalWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
Elements needed to sustain life Rocks to eat?
Energy consumptionMineral expert 4 - Recycle your mobile phone
Energy sources
Also, please refer to Climate change ‘net zero’ emissions target
1. Power through the window
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
3. Plugging future global energy gap?
4. Future power: predicting future power sources (ELI+)
Energy transfer - water cycleCycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
Engineering geology - investigating shrinkage of clayTesting rocks 3 - that shrinking feeling
Engineering geology - testing rocks for strengthTesting rocks 1 - bouncing back
Engineering geology - testing the plasticity of clayTesting rocks 2 - ’Splat!’
Environments 1. Fieldwork: Applying ’the present is the key to the past’  Teaching video
2. Environmental detective
3. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
4. Fieldwork: Environmental evaluation
5. Now and then
6. Fifty million years into the future  Box School animals
7. Take it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
8. So, you want to conserve a geodiversity site
9. View to the future – and the past
10. Climate on arrival
11. What layers are preserved?
12. Playground continents
Equinox1. Hot or not
2. Earth on Earth
3. Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth
Erosion / weathering - misconceptionsTeacher - ‘What’s the difference between weathering and erosion?’
Erosion - rocks and shells 1. Rock, rattle and roll  Extension - using maps  Teaching video  Video (Portuguese introduction)
2. Shell shake - survival of the toughest  Video
3. When are soft rocks tough, and hard rocks weak?
4. Recreating the rocks
Erosion by iceGrinding and gouging  Video (Portuguese introduction)
Erosion by rivers 1. Mighty river in a small gutter  Extension  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years
2. Bucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
3. Investigating small-scale sedimentary processes AND modelling mighty rivers  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
4. LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
5. How can storms affect erosion rates?
Erosion by the sea 1. Changing coastlines
2. How can storms affect erosion rates?
3. Coastal erosion
Erosion by wind 1. Dust bowl  Extension
2. How can storms affect erosion rates?
Erosion - fieldworkQuestions for any rock face - erosion  Teaching video
Erosion - soilWhy does soil get washed away?  Extension  Video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
EurypteridsScary scorpions
European Macroseismic Scale (EMS)Earthquake in your classroom
Evaporation1. Mini-world water cycle  Teaching video  Extension
2. Watery World Game (ELI Early years)
Evaporation and salt crystal-formationSalt of the Earth  Extension
Evolution of Earth’s atmosphereEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution (ELI+)
Evolution of life1. Time-line in your own backyard  Extension  Teaching video  Video
2. Toilet roll of time  Video
3. How many Great Great Great Great Grandparents?  Teaching video
4. How many Beany Beetles? - the evolution game  Teaching video
5. Curious creatures  Video (Cambrian explosion song)
6. Fifty million years into the future  Box School animals
7. Continents versus biodiversity (ELI+)
Evolution - theoryEvolution of evolution (ELI+)
ExtinctionDinosaur extinction
Extractive industryQuarry through the window - what would you see, what would you not see?
F
Faults - fluids and movementFluids, friction and failure  Teaching video
Faults - mapwork from models1. Geological mapwork from models 6: plain with faults in the direction of dip (ELI+)
2. Geological mapwork from models 7: plain with faults parallel to the outcrops of the beds (ELI+)
3. Geological mapwork from models 8: plain with different types of fault (ELI+)
Faults 1. Valley in 30 seconds!   Teaching video 1   Teaching video 2   Video   Extension
2. Banana benders  Video
3. Swiss roll surgery
4. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
5. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 8 - faults
6. Modelling faulting - by hand
7. Modelling by hand ‘when the youngest rock is not on top’
8. Faults in a MarsTM Bar
9. Picturing tectonic structures - 1 faulting
10. Slip-sliding away
Father of English Geology - William SmithWilliam Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
Fieldwork 1. Applying ’the present is the key to the past’
2. Earth science out of doors; preserving the evidence
3. Environmental evaluation
4. Interactive re-creation
5. Questions for any rock face - planning  Teaching video
6. Questions for any rock face 1: weathering  Teaching video
7. Questions for any rock face 2: erosion  Teaching video
8. Questions for any rock face 3: soil  Teaching video
9. Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)  Teaching video
10. Questions for any rock face 5: sedimentary grains  Teaching video
11. Questions for any rock face 6: fossils
12. Questions for any rock face 7: tilted or folded rocks  Teaching video
13. Questions for any rock face 8: faults
14. Questions for any rock face 9: metamorphic rock
15. Questions for any rock face 10: sequencing geological events  Teaching video
16. Questions for any rock face 11: tectonic plates  Teaching video
17. Questions for any rock face 12: potential of the quarry or cutting  Teaching video
18. Questions for any rock face 13: quarry economics  Teaching video
19. Questions for any rock face 14: recording data  Teaching video
20. Now and then
21. Rock around school (investigating building materials)  Teaching video
22. Rocks from the big screen
23. Safety: The ‘What could hurt you here?’ approach to field safety
24. The ‘All powerful’ strategy
25. The view from the site
26. The ‘What makes a good educational experience’ approach to planning fieldwork (ELI for Educators)
26. Urban fieldwork  Teaching video
Fishing gameFishing game - beware of overfishing
Flame structures - sedimentary structures1. Sedimentary structures - load casts  Teaching video
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
Floods 1. Flood through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?  Extension
2. Natural hazards in your area?
3. Inland flooding: a Sheffield case study
4. How will rising sea level affect our coastlines?
Fluids and frictionFluids, friction and failure  Teaching video
Fluids - hydrothermalInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Fold mountains / folded rocks 1. Himalayas in 30 seconds!  Extension  Teaching video  Video
2. Margarine mountain-building
3. Banana benders  Video
4. Continents in collision (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
5. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
6. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 7 - tilted or folded rocks  Teaching video
7. Geological mapwork from models 5: folded geology on block models (ELI+)
8. Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks (ELI+)
9. Swiss roll surgery
10. View from above
11. From folds to crustal shortening: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
12. Modelling by hand ‘when the youngest rock is not on top’
13. Modelling folding - by hand
14. Right way up or upside down? - modelling anti- and synforms by hand
15. Visualising plunging folds - with your hands and a piece of paper
16. Jelly BabiesTM and 3D maps (ELI+)
17. Recreating the rocks
18. Picturing tectonic structures - folding
19. Folds and faults with puff pastry and chocolate
Food chain - JurassicWho ate the ammonite?
Food web - Jurassic Who ate the ammonite?
Forensic geoscience - Cretaceous crime sceneDinosaur death - did it die or was it killed?
Forensic geoscience - People smugglingInnocent until proven guilty (ELI+)
Fossils 1. Fossil or not?  Teaching video
2. Fossilise! - fossil game (ELI Early years)
3. How could I become fossilised?  Extension  Teaching video
4. Mary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
5. Running the fossilisation film backwards  Teaching video
6. What was it like to be there? - bringing a fossil to life  Teaching video  Get geo-creative
7. Cambrian - Curious creatures  Video (Cambrian explosion song)
8. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 6 - fossils
9. Playground continents
10. Picturing fossils 1
11. Picturing fossils 2
Fossils - trace1. Dinosaur in the yard  Extension
2. Meeting of the dinosaurs - 100 million years ago  Teaching video  Extension
3. Trail-making
4. Trace fossils - burrows or borings  Teaching video
5. Picturing trace fossils
Fossil collectingTake it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
Fossil recordShell shake - survival of the toughest  Video
Fossil/rock/mineral/other1. Found in the ground  Teaching video
2. Sensory treasure hunt  Teaching video
Fracking 1. Recipe for the perfect fracking fluid
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Freeze - thaw physical weathering 1. Freeze-thaw weathering  Teaching video
2. Ice Power (ELI+)
Friction and fluidsFluids, friction and failure  Teaching video
G
Gangue mineralsInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Gas (power source) 1. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
2. Gas storage underground
Gases in the atmosphereEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution (ELI+)
Geo-inspired creations 1. Geo-art: paintings to sculptures inspired by all things ‘geo’
2. Geo-literature: poems and stories inspired by all things ‘geo’
3. Geo-music - music inspired by all things ‘geo’ Extension
4. Earthquakes in art
5. Rocks music  Extension  Sound - Rock xylophone
Geoconservation1. Take it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
2. So, you want to conserve a geodiversity site
GeodiversitySo, you want to conserve a geodiversity site
Geological garden Rocky play-park; design your own
Geological history 1. What is the geological history?  Extension
2. Fieldwork: the ‘All powerful’ strategy
3. Fieldwork - Questions for any rock face 10: sequencing geological events  Teaching video
Geological laws and principlesLaying down the principles  Teaching video
Geological map - first of England, Wales and part of ScotlandWilliam Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
Geological maps 1. Opengeoscience 1: igneous intrusions and lavas (ELI+)
2. Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks (ELI+)
3. Using surface geology to make a geological map (ELI+)
4. Jelly BabiesTM and 3D maps (ELI+)
Geological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)
3: valley with dipping geology (ELI+)
Geological mapwork from models 1: plain with simple geology (ELI+)
2: cuesta with simple geology (ELI+)
3: valley with horizontal floor (ELI+)
4: sloping ridge and valley (ELI+)
5: folded geology on block models (ELI+)
6: plain with faults in the direction of dip (ELI+)
7: plain with faults parallel to the outcrops of the beds (ELI+)
8: plain with different types of fault (ELI+)
Geological Time please refer to category
Geophysics 1. From clay balls to the structure of the Earth (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves
3. Electrical ground probing
4. Modelling remote sensing geophysics (ELI+)
Geothermal power 1. Rock power: geothermal power simulations (ELI+)
2. Geothermal power from ‘hot dry’ rocks
3. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Glacial erosion1. Grinding and gouging  Video (Portuguese introduction)
2. Ice-thickness from scratch: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
Glacial landscapes 1. Evidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
2. Modelling by hand ‘when the youngest rock is not on top’
Glacial moraine1. Dam burst danger
2. Evidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Glacial reboundIsostasy 2; ‘bouncing back’ after the ice (ELI+)  Teaching video
GlaciersEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Glaciers - movement along bedFluids, friction and failure  Teaching video
GoldEssential minerals - gold
Gold prospectingGold prospectors  Teaching video
Golden spikeGeological time and the Anthropocene?
Graded bedding1. Sedimentary structures - graded bedding  Teaching video
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
3. Picturing puzzle structures
Grains - sedimentary 1. Rock detective - rocky clues to the past  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
2. Modelling for rocks - what’s hidden inside and why?  Teaching video
3. Questions for any rock face 5: sedimentary grains  Teaching video
4. ‘A World in a grain of sand’  Teaching video
Granite landscapesGeological postcards 1 - granite and chalk  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
GraphiteEssential minerals - graphite
GravestonesWill my gravestone last?  Teaching video
Gravity anomaliesModelling remote sensing geophysics (ELI+)
Greenhouse effectGreenhouse effect
Ground heat pumps (power source) 1. Ground source heat pumps
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Ground probingElectrical ground probing
Groundwater flowFrom rain to spring: water from the ground  Extension  Teaching video  Video
Groundwater pHWatery world of underground chemistry (ELI+)  Teaching video
Groundwater pollution simulationFrom rain to spring: water from the ground  Extension  Teaching video  Video
Groundwater - wellsWell, well, well!
GypsumMake and use your own Plaster of Paris
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Habit - crystalsMineral expert - 1  Teaching video
Hardness of mineralsMineral expert - 2  Teaching video
Heat transfer from Earth’s core outwardsThe heat is on
Herbivore/carnivore relationshipsWho ate the ammonite?
Historical geology - principlesLaying down the principles  Teaching video
Historical geology - sequencing eventsWhat is the geological history?  Extension
Hotspots 1. Hotspots (ELI+)
2. Plate margins and movement by hand  Teaching video
How Science works - Mary AnningMary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
How Science works - Charles Darwin1. Darwin’s ’big coral atoll idea’  Video
2. Darwin’s ’big soil idea’
How Science works - James HuttonJames Hutton - or ’Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+)  Rock cycle song
How Science works - Charles LyellDating the Earth - Charles Lyell and Mount Etna 1828
How Science works - Luigi MarsiliCurrent flows through straits (Marsili model)
How Science works - William SmithWilliam Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
How Science works - Marie TharpMarie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
How Science works - Alfred WegenerWegener’s ’Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ’Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
Humus - in soils1. Make your own soil  Teaching video
2. Soil layers puzzle
HurricaneNatural hazards in your area?
Hutton, James - rock cycle 1. James Hutton - or ’Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+)  Rock cycle song
2. Filling the gap – picturing the unconformity ‘abyss of time’?
Hydroelectric HEP (power source) 1. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
2. Small-scale hydroelectric power schemes
3. Storing water power
Hydrogen as an energy source 1. Blue hydrogen - the fuel of the future?
2. Green hydrogen used to even out renewable energy supplies?
3. Hydrogen of many colours
Hydrosphere; one of Earth’s four interacting spheresWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
Hydrostatic pressureWater pressure - underground (ELI+)
Hydrothermal fluidsInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
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Ice age1. Evidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
2. Isostasy 2; ‘bouncing back’ after the ice (ELI+)  Teaching video
Ice cores and Earth's temperatures 1. Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
2. Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
3. Ice core evidence for climate change (ELI+)
Ice - changing state 1. Water - changing state  Teaching video
2. Ice power (ELI+)
3. Melting ice and sea level change 1 - sea ice melts  Teaching video
4. Melting ice and sea level change 2 - ice caps melt  Teaching video
Ice - erosion1. Grinding and gouging  Video (Portuguese introduction)
2. Ice-thickness from scratch: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
Ice sheetsEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Igneous intrusions on geological mapsOpengeoscience 1 (ELI+)
Igneous processesVolcano in the lab (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
Igneous rocks 1. ’Rockery 1’ - rock game
2. ’Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game
3. Why do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes? (ELI+)  Teaching video
4. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
5.’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
6. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
7. Partial melting - simple process, huge global impact (ELI+)  Extension
8. Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)
9. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)  Teaching video
10. Isostasy - How a rising mountain chain can reveal its hidden secrets  Teaching video
11. Rock grain cut out
12. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
13. Picturing igneous rocks 1
14. Picturing igneous rocks 2
Igneous rocks - building stones resources1. Building stones 1
2. Building stones 2 - Igneous rocks
3. Will my gravestone last?  Teaching video
Imbrication - sedimentary structure1. Sedimentary structures - imbrication
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
3. Picturing puzzle structures
Impact cratersCraters on the Moon  Extension  Impact calculator  Video (Portuguese introduction)
InsolationHot or not?
Insulation (‘net zero’ emissions target)Building insulation
Intensity scale (Earthquakes)Earthquake in your classroom
Intrusion - volcanic radial dykesVolcanoes and radial dykes (ELI+)
Iron oreSmelter on a stick (ELI+)
Isostasy 1. Isostasy 1; modelling the state of ‘balance’ of the Earth’s outer layers (ELI+)  Teaching video  Kitchen isostasy 1
2. Isostasy 2; ‘bouncing back’ after the ice (ELI+)  Teaching video  Kitchen isostasy 2
3. Isostasy - How a rising mountain chain can reveal its hidden secrets  Teaching video
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Jigging - separating materialsJigging  Teaching video
Joints - columnarCracking the clues
Jurassic - food web from fossil evidenceWho ate the ammonite?
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Karstic sceneryKarstic scenery - in 60 seconds
Key - building stones resourceBuilding stones
KnollGeological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
Krakatoa, volcanic eruption and tsunamisKrakatoa - tsunamis
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Lamination1. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
2. Picturing puzzle structures
LandformsPicturing landforms 1
Land restorationQuarry through the window - what would you see, what would you not see?
Landscapes - granite and chalkGeological postcards 1 - granite and chalk  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
Landscapes - sandstone and limestone
1. Geological postcards 2 - sandstone and limestone  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
2. Karstic scnery - in 60 seconds
Landslides1. Landslide through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?  Extension  Video
2. Failing slopes  Teaching video
3. Danger - quicksands!
4. Dam burst danger
5. Natural hazards in your area?
6. Landslide danger - and climate change
Latent heat - water cycleCycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
Lava flows - simulationSee how they run  Teaching video
Lavas on geological mapsOpengeoscience 1 (ELI+)
Lava viscosityBubble-mania  Volcano Simulator (Alaska Museum of Science & Nature)
Laws in Geology 1. Laying down the principles  Teaching video
2. What happened when?: sorting out sequences using stratigraphical concepts  Teaching video
Life on Earth - time-line1. Time-line in your own backyard  Extension  Teaching video  Video
2. Toilet roll of time  Video
Lime kiln Make a mini lime kiln; discover limelight
Limestone 1. Geological postcards 2 - sandstone and limestone  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
2. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
3. Karstic scenery - in 60 seconds
4. Weathering limestone - with my own breath! (ELI+)  Teaching video
5. Calcium carbonate misconceptions
6. Sink hole!
7. Limestone springs
8. Make a mini lime kiln; discover limelight
Liquefaction - earthquakeQuake shake - will my home collapse?  Extension  Columns in Rome  Teaching video  Video
Liquefaction - quicksandsDanger - quicksands!
Lithification Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: lithification
LithiumEssential minerals - lithium
Lithosphere1.Journey to the centre of the Earth - on a toilet roll  Teaching video
2. Isostasy 1 (ELI+)  Teaching video
Lithosphere; one of Earth’s four interacting spheresWhat am I made of? (ELI+)
LiteratureGeo-literature: poems and stories inspired by all things ‘geo’
Litter - in soils1. Make your own soil  Teaching video
2. Soil layers puzzle
Load casts - sedimentary structures1. Sedimentary structures - load casts  Teaching video
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
3. Picturing puzzle structures
Loam soilSoil doughnuts  Teaching video
Longshore driftChanging coastlines
Lunar month1. Jaffa moon
2. Lollipop moon
3. Polystyrene moon
Lustre of mineralsMineral expert - 1  Teaching video
Lyell, CharlesDating the Earth - Charles Lyell and Mount Etna 1828
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Magma - cooling and crystallisationWhy do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes? (ELI+)  Teaching video
Magma - crystallisation 1. Unfair ’build your own crystal’ race (ELI+)
2. ’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
3. Building silicates (crystal size in magma & in recrystallisation in solid rock)
Magma - intrusionsVolcanoes and radial dykes (ELI+)
Magma - late stage coolingInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Magma viscosityBubble-mania
Magnetic anomaliesModelling remote sensing geophysics (ELI+)
Magnetic field of the Earth 1. Magnetic Earth (ELI+)
2. Recipe for a magnetic Earth and a magnetic detector  Teaching video
3. Why won’t my compass work on the other side of the Equator? (ELI+)  Teaching video
4. Human magnets! (ELI+)
Magnetic pattern of rocks on the sea floor 1. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
3. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
Magnetic reversals 1. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
3. Recipe for a magnetic Earth and a magnetic detector  Teaching video
Magnetism - frozen 1. Frozen magnetism (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Human magnets! (ELI+)
3. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)  Video  Extension
Mantle 1. From an orange to the whole Earth  Teaching video  Video (Portuguese introduction)
2. ’Mantle plume’ in a beaker (ELI+)
3. Hotspots (ELI+)
4. Bouncing, bending, breaking (ELI+)  Teaching video
Map - first geological map of England, Wales and part of ScotlandWilliam Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
Mapwork: a conical hillGeological mapwork from scratch 1: a conical hill (ELI+)
Mapwork: dip, apparent dip, strike, DIY clinometerDIY Dip and strike model (ELI+)
Mapwork: surface geologyGeological mapwork: using surface geology to make a geological map (ELI+)
Mapwork: valley with simple geologyGeological mapwork from scratch 2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)
Mapwork: valley with dipping geologyGeological mapwork from scratch 3: valley with dipping geology (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: cuesta with simple geologyGeological mapwork from models 2: cuesta with simple geology (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: folded rocksGeological mapwork from models 5: folded geology on block models (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: plain with simple geologyGeological mapwork from models 1: plain with simple geology (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: plain with faults1. Geological mapwork from models 6: plain with faults in the direction of dip (ELI+)
2. Geological mapwork from models 7: plain with faults parallel to the outcrops of the beds (ELI+)
3. Geological mapwork from models 8: plain with different types of fault (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: sloping ridge and valleyGeological mapwork from models 4: sloping ridge and valley (ELI+)
Mapwork from models: valley with horizontal floorGeological mapwork from models 3: valley with horizontal floor (ELI+)
Mapwork with block models for students with VIModifying block models for students with VI
Marie TharpMarie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
Marsili, Luigi Ferdinando (1658-1730)Current flows through straits (Marsili model)
Mary AnningMary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
Mass movement - density currents1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
Mass movement - landslidesLandslide through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?  Video
Material propertiesSensory treasure hunt  Teaching video
Metal mineralsInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Metal oresSmelter on a stick (ELI+)
Metamorphism - metamorphic rocks 1. Metamorphism - that’s Greek for change of shape isn’t it?  Extension  Teaching video   Video (16+)
2. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
3. Deformed trilobites  Video
4. Building stones 1
5. Building stones 4 - Metamorphic rocks   Video (16+)
6. Will my gravestone last?  Teaching video
7. ’Rockery 1’ - rock game
8. ’Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game
9. Fieldwork - Questions for any rock face 9: metamorphic rock
10. Metamorphic aureole in a tin (ELI+)
11. Rock grain cut out
12. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
13. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: deformation and metamorphism  Teaching video
14. Factors controlling metamorphism (ELI+)
15. Picturing metamorphic rocks
Meteorites - evidence for core of EarthA core activity (ELI+)
Methane - landfill gasEnergy from buried waste
Mid Ocean Ridge (MOR) 1. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
3. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
4. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
Milankovitch cyclesMilankovitch cycles - by hand
Millions of years - visualisation 1. How many for a million?
2. Counting one million?
3. Toilet roll of time
4. The origin of the Earth - at arm’s length
Mineral collectingTake it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
Mineral identification 1. Mineral expert - 1  Teaching video
2. Mineral expert - 2  Teaching video
3. Identifying minerals - use your sense(s)!
4. Mineral or not?
5. Picturing minerals-1
6. Picturing minerals-2
Mineral/rock/fossil/other1. Found in the ground   Teaching video
2. Sensory treasure hunt  Teaching video
Mineral uses in everyday life 1. Mineral expert - 3
2. What is it made of?
3. Essential minerals - lithium
4. Essential minerals - copper
5. Essential minerals - rare earth elements
6. Essential minerals - graphite
7. Essential minerals - cobalt
8. Essential minerals - tin, tungsten, tantalum
9. Essential minerals - gold
10. Essential minerals - critical minerals
Mineralisation - hydrothermalInteractive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
Mineral separation1. Jigging  Teaching video
2. Gold panning
  Teaching video
Minerals essential to life Rocks to eat?
Mining for minerals1. Jigging  Teaching video
2. Interactive hydrothermal mineralisation (ELI+)
3. Essential minerals - lithium
4. Essential minerals - copper
5. Essential minerals - rare earth elements
6. Essential minerals - graphite
7. Essential minerals - cobalt
8. Essential minerals - tin, tungsten, tantalum
9. Essential minerals - gold
10. Essential minerals - critical minerals
Mining and the Green Revolution Mining and the Green Revolution
MohoJourney to the centre of the Earth - on a toilet roll  Teaching video
Mohs’ scale for mineral hardnessMineral expert - 2  Teaching video
Moon - cratersCraters on the Moon  Extension  Impact calculator  Video (Portuguese introduction)
Moon - eclipse 1. Eclipse the lollipop
2. Eclipse from the moon?
Moon - phases1. Jaffa moon
2. Lollipop moon
3. Polystyrene moon
Moraine1. Dam burst danger
2. Evidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Mountains 1. Himalayas in 30 seconds!  Extension  Teaching video  Video
2. Margarine mountain-building
3. Banana benders  Video
4. Continents in collision (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
5. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
6. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 7 - tilted or folded rocks  Teaching video
7. Geological mapwork from models 5: folded geology on block models (ELI+)
8. Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks (ELI+)
9. Swiss roll surgery
10. View from above
11. Isostasy - How a rising mountain chain can reveal its hidden secrets  Teaching video
12. Modelling folding - by hand
13. Recreating the rocks
14. Picturing tectonic structures - folding
15. Folds and faults with puff pastry and chocolate
MudcracksCracking the clues
Music 1. Geo-music - music inspired by all things ‘geo’ Extension
2. Rocks music  Extension  Sound - Rock xylophone
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Natural hazardsNatural Hazards ELI category
Natural hazards in your area?
Natural selection - evolution1. Fifty million years into the future  Box School animals
2. How many Beany Beetles? - the evolution game
‘Net zero’ series
Please refer to Climate change: ‘Net zero’ emissions target
 
Nitrogen atom‘Tagging’ nitrogen atoms – to explore the nitrogen cycle
Night/DayEarth on Earth - how day/night and the seasons work
Nuclear power 1. Nuclear power
2. Nuclear waste disposal
3. Advances in battery technology
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Ocean currents 1. Current flows through straits (Marsili model)
2. Rubber ducks at sea
Ocean floor 1. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video

2. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
3. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
4. Which is the fastest spreading oceanic ridge?  Teaching video
5. Measuring the depths of seas and oceans: How is it done?
6. Modelling sea-floor mapping
7. East Pacific traverse
8. Marie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
Oil and gas 1.Make your own oil and gas reservoir
2. Trapped! Why can’t oil and gas escape from their underground prison?  Teaching video  Teaching video in the lab
3. Where shall we drill for oil?
4. Where does offshore oil come from?
5. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Orbit of the EarthScreaming roller coaster
Ore - concentration of oreRiches in the river  Extension
Ore - smelting iron oreSmelter on a stick (ELI+)
Ore - densityEureka! - detecting ore the Archimedes way
Outdoors - field work1. Earth science out of doors: preserving the evidence
2. Rocks from the big screen
Oxygen isotopes and Earth's temperatures 1. Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
2. Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
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Palaeocurrents 1. Sedimentary structures - imbrication
2. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ancient currents  Teaching video
3. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
4. Make your own cross-bedding  Teaching video
Palaeoenvironments 1. Environmental detective
2. What was it like to be there? - bringing a fossil to life  Teaching video  Get geo-creative
3. What was it like to be there - in the rocky world?  Teaching video  Extension
4. Playground continents
Palaeogeography - see Palaeoenvironments above  
Palaeomagnetism 1. Frozen magnetism (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Human magnets! (ELI+)
3. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
4. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
5. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)   Video  Extension
Palaeontology - also refer to ’Fossils’Mary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
PangaeaContinental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
Partial melting 1. Partial melting - simple process, huge global impact (ELI+)  Extension
2. Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)
Peat - preservation inBog bodies
Periglacial landscapesEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
PermafrostEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
People smuggling - forensic geoscienceInnocent until proven guilty (ELI+)
Permeability of rocks 1. Modelling for rocks: what’s hidden inside - and why?  Extension  Teaching video
2. Does my rock hold water and will water flow through it?  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
3. Well, well, well!
Permeability of soils investigationPermeability of soils - ’The great soil race’  Teaching video  Extension
pH of solutions 1.Watery world of underground chemistry (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Make a mini lime kiln; discover limelight
Phases of the Moon1. Jaffa moon
2. Lollipop moon
3. Polystyrene moon
Photosynthesis - oxygen into the atmosphereEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution (ELI+)
PingoEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Placer depositsRiches in the river  Extension
Plain1. Geological mapwork from models 1: plain with simple geology (ELI+)
2. Geological mapwork from models 6: plain with faults in the direction of dip (ELI+)
3. Geological mapwork from models 7: plain with faults parallel to the outcrops of the beds (ELI+)
4. Geological mapwork from models 8: plain with with different types of fault (ELI+)
Planets - sizes and distancesPlayground planets  Extension
PlasterMake and use your own Plaster of Paris
Plate tectonics - constructive (divergent) plate margin 1. ’Mantle plume’ in a beaker (ELI+)
2. Faults in a MarsTM Bar  Teaching video
3. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
4. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
5. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
6. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
7. Fastest spreading ocean ridge
8. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Plate tectonics - continental drift 1. Continental jigsaw puzzle (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Earth time jigsaw puzzle
3. Wegener’s ’Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ’Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
4. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)  Video  Extension
5. Plate margins and movement by hand  Teaching video
6. Wandering continents
Plate tectonics - destructive (convergent) plate margin1. Continents in collision (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Plate tectonics - earthquakes and volcanoesGeobattleships (ELI+)  Teaching video
Plate tectonics - evidence1. Wegener’s ’Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ’Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
2. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)  Video  Extension
Plate tectonics - partial melting 1. Partial melting - simple process, huge global impact (ELI+)  Extension
2. Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)
Plate tectonics - moving plates / top and bottom of a plate / mechanism 1. Plate riding  Extension  Teaching video
2. Top and bottom of a tectonic plate
3. What drives the plates?  Teaching video
4. What drives the plates? The evidence  Teaching video
5. What drives the plates? In slab pull, what is it that pulls?  Teaching video
6. What drives the plates? Modelling slab pull  Video
7. Plate margins and movement by hand  Teaching video
8. Plate driving mechanisms
Plate tectonics through the window1. Plate tectonics through the window (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video (Oxford Sparks)
2. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 11 - tectonic plates  Teaching video
Plate tectonics and the deep rock cycle: lithification 1. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: lithification
2. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: deformation and metamorphism  Teaching video
Plate tectonics - UPDATES UPDATE: Recent research in plate tectonics (2020)
UPDATE: Joides Resolution research ship (2020)
Plutons on geological mapsOpengeoscience 1 (ELI+)
Polar wandering curvesDid the continents move for you? (ELI+)  Video  Extension
Pollution - water sourcesFrom rain to spring: water from the ground  Extension  Video
Pore water pressureDanger - quicksands!
Porosity of rocks 1. Space within - the porosity of rocks  Extension
2. Does my rock hold water and will water flow through it?  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
3. Well, well, well!
Postcards 1. Geological postcards 1 - granite and chalk  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
2. Geological postcards 2 - sandstone and limestone  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
Potholes in riversBucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
Power sources - general 1. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
2. Plugging future global energy gap?
3. Power through the window
4. Future power: predicting future power sources (ELI+)
Pratt isostasy hypothesisIsostasy 1 (ELI+)  Teaching video
Prediction of volcanic eruptionsTake a ’Chance’ on the volcano erupting (ELI+)  Extension
Prediction of volcanic eruptions/earthquakes/landslidesParty time for volcanoes (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
Prediction techniques - EarthquakesEarthquake prediction - when will the earthquake strike?  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
Pressure 1. Under pressure (ELI+)
2. Water pressure - underground (ELI+)
3. Melting and boiling - the influence of pressure (ELI+)
Principles in GeologyWhat happened when?: sorting out sequences using stratigraphical concepts  Teaching video
Producers/consumersWho ate the ammonite?  Extension
P-waves 1. Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Merry waves - all year round (ELI+)
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Quarry 1. Quarry through the window - what would you see, what would you not see?
2. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 12 - potential of the quarry or cutting  Teaching video
3. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 13 - quarry economics  Teaching video
Quartz crystals - formation’Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
QuicklimeMake a mini lime kiln; discover limelight
QuicksandsDanger - quicksands!
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Radial dykes, volcanic intrusionVolcanoes and radial dykes (ELI+)
Radiation - water cycleCycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
Radiometric dating 1. Working out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
2. Radioactive dating  Video
Rare Earth ElementsEssential minerals - rare earth elements
Recording geological dataFieldwork - Questions for any rock face 14: recording   Teaching video
Recycling - mobile phonesMineral expert 4 - Recycle your mobile phone
Relative dating 1. Working out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
2. Modelling by hand ‘when the youngest rock is not on top’
Remanent magnetism 1. Frozen magnetism (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Human magnets! (ELI+)
3. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video
4. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
5. Did the continents move for you? (ELI+)  Video  Extension
Remote sensing 1. Electrical ground probing
2. Modelling remote sensing geophysics (ELI+)
Renewable power sources - geothermal?Rock power: geothermal power simulations (ELI+)
ResistivityElectrical ground probing
Ridge (sloping) and valleyGeological mapwork from models 4: sloping ridge and valley (ELI+)
Ripple marks1. Sand ripple marks in a washbowl  Extension  Video
2. Sand ripple marks in a tank  Extension  Video
3. Fieldwork: Interactive re-creation
4. Picturing puzzle structures
Rivers - erosion, transportation and deposition1. Mighty river in a small gutter  Extension  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
2. Rolling, hopping, floating and invisibly moving along  Teaching video
3. Sand ripple marks in a washbowl  Extension  Video
4. Bucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+)
5. Investigating small-scale sedimentary processes AND modelling mighty rivers  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
6. From river sediment to stripy rocks
7. LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
RoadstonesRoadstone - which rock?
Rock classification 1. Rock detective - rocky clues to the past  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
2. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
Rock collectingTake it or leave it? - the geoconservation debate
Rock cycle 1. Rock cycle through the window  Rock cycle song
2. Rock cycle in wax  Extension  Teaching video  Rock cycle song
3. Laying out the rock cycle: product and process  Rock cycle song  Teaching video
4. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
5. Rock cycle at your fingertips  Teaching video  Rock cycle song
6. Not misunderstanding the rock cycle  Rock cycle song
7. James Hutton - or ’Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+)  Rock cycle song
8. ’Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game  Rock cycle song
9. Sand on a sill  Rock cycle song
10. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: lithification
11. Deep rock cycle explained by plate tectonics: deformation and metamorphism  Teaching video
Rock densityEureka! - detecting ore the Archimedes way
Rock/mineral/fossil/other1. Found in the ground (ELI Early years)   Teaching video
2. Sensory treasure hunt (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
Rock types 1. ’Rockery 1’ - rock game
2. ’Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game  Rock cycle song
3. Rock detective - rocky clues to the past  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
4. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
5. Make your own rock  Teaching video
6. Modelling for rocks: what’s hidden inside - and why?  Extension  Teaching video
7. Space within - the porosity of rocks  Extension
8. Testing rocks - 1 bouncing back
9. What was it like to be there - in the rocky world?  Teaching video  Extension
10. Rock Explorer (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
11. Rock builder (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
12. Rocky play-park; design your own
13. Rock, rattle and roll  Extension - using maps  Teaching video  Video (Portuguese introduction)
14. When are soft rocks tough, and hard rocks weak?
15. Rock grain cut out
16. Playground continents
17. Rock is a time capsule
18. Picturing igneous rocks 1
19. Picturing igneous rocks 2
20. Picturing metamorphic rocks
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Salinity - measurementWhy is the Dead Sea dead?
Salol - simulate crystallisation in igneous rocksWhy do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes? (ELI+)  Teaching video
Sand grains1. Sand on a sill
2. How many sand grains are there in a bucket – or on a beach?
3. ‘A World in a grain of sand’  Teaching video
Sandstone landscapesGeological postcards 2 - sandstone and limestone  Teaching video  ‘Global’ postcards extension
Salt crystal formationSalt of the Earth  Extension
Salt - extractionWhy is the Dead Sea dead?
Scientists 1. Mary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology  Teaching video
2a. Darwin’s ’big coral atoll idea’  Video
2b. Darwin’s ‘big soil idea’
3. James Hutton - or ’Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+)  Rock cycle song
4. Dating the Earth - Charles Lyell and Mount Etna 1828
5. William Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
6. Wegener’s ’Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ’Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
7. Marsili model - Exploring current flows through straits
8. Marie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
ScorpionsScary scorpions
Sea floor 1. Magnetic stripes (ELI+)  Teaching video

2. Hands on magnetic stripes (ELI+)
3. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
4. Continental split - the opening of the Atlantic Ocean  Video
5. Measuring the depths of seas and oceans: How is it done?
6. Modelling sea-floor mapping
7. East Pacific traverse
8. Marie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
Sea level change 1. Sea level in a plastic cup
2. Melting ice and sea level change 1 - sea ice melts  Teaching video
3. Melting ice and sea level change 2 - ice caps melt  Teaching video
4. How will rising sea level affect our coastlines?
5. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 1 (ELI+)
6. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 2 (ELI+)
Seasons1. Hot or not?
2. Earth on Earth
3. Seasons
Sediment transportation1. Mighty river in a small gutter  Extension  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
2. Rolling, hopping, floating and invisibly moving along  Teaching video
3. Investigating small-scale sedimentary processes AND modelling mighty rivers  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
4. From river sediment to stripy rocks
5. LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
Sedimentary rocks 1. ’Rockery 1’ - rock game
2. ’Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game
3. Rock builder (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
4. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)  Teaching video
5. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 5: sedimentary grains  Teaching video
6. From river sediment to stripy rocks
7. Rock grain cut out
8. From ‘Rock detective’ to ‘Laying out the rock cycle’  Teaching video
9. Recreating the rocks
10. How do sedimentary beds form?
11. Playground continents
12. Wriggling toes on ancient bedding planes
Sedimentary rocks - building stones resources 1. Building stones 1
2. Building stones 3 - sedimentary rocks
3. Will my gravestone last?  Teaching video
4. Fieldwork: Questions for any rock face 4: rock group (sedimentary or igneous)  Teaching video
Sedimentary structures 1. Cross-bedding and ancient currents  Teaching video
2. Cross-bedding and ’way-up’  Teaching video
3. Make your own cross-bedding  Teaching video
4. Graded bedding  Teaching video
5. Imbrication
6. Load casts  Teaching video
7. Mudcracks - cracking the clues
8. Sand ripple marks in a tank  Extension  Video
9. Sand ripple marks in a washbowl  Extension  Video
10. Sole marks  Teaching video
11. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
12. Picturing puzzle structures
13. Picturing trace fossils & other strange shapes
Sediments to sedimentary rocks 1. Make your own rock  Teaching video
2. What layers are preserved?
Seismic body waves 1. Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)  Teaching video
Seismic body waves (transmission of energy)Merry waves - all year round (ELI+)
Seismic evidence for core of EarthA core activity (ELI+)  Teaching video
Seismic waves through the mantleBouncing, bending, breaking (ELI+)  Teaching video
Sequencing geological events 1. Fieldwork - questions for any rock face 10: sequencing  Teaching video
2. What is the geological history?
3. Fieldwork: the ‘All powerful’ strategy
4. Laying down the principles  Teaching video
5. Where shall we drill for oil?
6. Environmental detective
7. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 1 (ELI+)
8. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 2 (ELI+)
Shale gas 1. Recipe for the perfect fracking fluid
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Shear (see also Stresses in the Earth) 1. Modelling Earth stresses with your hands
2. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
3. Deformed trilobites  Video
Shells - adaptations to habitats
Shells - survival of the toughest
Sea shell survival  Teaching video
Shell shake - survival of the toughest  Video
SilicatesBuilding silicates (crystal size in magma & recrystallisation in solid rocks)
Sills on geological mapsOpengeoscience 1 (ELI+)
Sink holesSink hole!
Slab pull - plate movement 1. What drives the plates?  Teaching video
2. What drives the plates? The evidence  Teaching video
3. What drives the plates? In slab pull, what is it that pulls?  Teaching video
4. What drives the plates? Modelling slab pull  Video
Slopes1. Sandcastles and slopes  Teaching video
2. Landslide through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?  Extension  Video
3. Failing slopes   Teaching video
4. Danger - quicksands!
5. Dam burst danger
Smelting of iron oreSmelter on a stick (ELI+)
Smith, William - 1815 geological mapWilliam Smith - ’The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
Soils 1. Make your own soil  Teaching video
2. Soil water shake test  Teaching video
3. Soil layers puzzle
4. Soil doughnuts  Teaching video
5. Permeability of soils - ’The great soil race’  Teaching video  Extension
6. Darwin’s ’big soil idea’  Video
7. Questions for any rock face 3: soil  Teaching video
8. Why does soil get washed away?  Extension  Video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
9. Is there life in this soil sample?
10. Where on Earth is no soil found?
Soil water pHWatery world of underground chemistry (ELI+)  Teaching video
Solar radiation 1. Hot or not?
2. Earth on Earth
3. Milankovitch cycles - by hand
Solar systemPlayground planets  Extension
Solar power source 1. Harnessing the power of the Sun
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Sole marks1. Sedimentary structures - sole marks  Teaching video
2. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
3. Picturing puzzle structures
SolifluctionEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Solstice1. Hot or not
2. Earth on Earth
3. Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth
Space - survival in a sealed domeSpace survival: how could we survive a year in a dome?
Spin of the EarthScreaming roller coaster
Springs 1. From rain to spring: water from the ground  Extension  Video
2. Limestone springs
Stratigraphy - sequencing events 1. Laying down the principles  Teaching video
2. What happened when?: sorting out sequences using stratigraphical concepts  Teaching video
3. What is the geological history?  Extension
4. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 1 (ELI+)
5. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 2 (ELI+)
Streak test for mineralsMineral expert - 2  Teaching video
Strength of rocksTesting rocks - 1 bouncing back
Stresses in the Earth 1. Himalayas in 30 seconds!  Extension  Teaching video  Video
2. Valley in 30 seconds!   Teaching video 1   Teaching video 2   Video   Extension
3. Banana benders  Video
4. Modelling Earth stresses with your hands
5. Faults in a MarsTM Bar
6. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
7. Deformed trilobites  Video
StrikeDIY Dip and strike model (ELI+)
Structure of the Earth 1. From clay balls to the structure of the Earth (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Isostasy 1 (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves
Structures - geological
see also ‘Folds’ and ‘Faults’
Banana benders  Video
Subduction zonePlate tectonics through the window  Teaching video  Video (Oxford Sparks)
SubsidenceSink hole!
Sun - radiation and position1. Hot or not?
2. Earth on Earth
Sun - relative size and distances to the planetsPlayground planets  Extension
SupercontinentsContinental jigsaw puzzle (ELI+)  Teaching video
Survival in a sealed dome - considering the impact of Earth’s cyclesSpace survival: how could we survive a year in a dome?
Sustainability 1. Sustainable development
2. Fishing game - beware of overfishing
S-waves 1. Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)  Teaching video
3. Merry waves - all year round (ELI+)
Syncline - synform 1. Banana benders  Video
2. Swiss roll surgery
3. Right way up or upside down? - modelling anti- and synforms by hand
4. Visualising plunging folds - with your hands and a piece of paper
5. Picturing tectonic structures - folding
6. Folds and faults with puff pastry and chocolate
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TantalumEssential minerals - tantalum
Tar sands (power source)Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Temperatures on Earth 1. Oxygen isotope sweet simulation (ELI+)
2. Interpret Earth temperatures from simulated deep-sea and ice cores (ELI+)
3. Milankovitch cycles - by hand
Tension (see also Stresses in the Earth) 1. Modelling Earth stresses with your hands
2. Valley in 30 seconds!   Teaching video 1   Teaching video 2   Video   Extension
3. Banana benders  Video
4. Faults in a MarsTM Bar
5. Squeezed out of shape  Teaching video
6. Deformed trilobites  Video
Tharp, MarieMarie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’  Extension
Tidal energy 1. Tidal energy
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Till or boulder clayEvidence from the deep freeze - under or near the ice sheets
Time - geologicalGeological time (ELI category)
Timeline for age of the EarthWorking out the age of the Earth - moving backwards as time moved forwards
TinEssential minerals - tin
TornadoesNatural hazards in your area?
Trace fossils 1. Trace fossils - burrows or borings  Teaching video
2. Picturing trace fossils
Transform faults1. Transform faults (ELI+)  Teaching video  Video
2. MarsTM margins - diverged, converged and transformed  Video
Transportation by water 1. Rolling, hopping, floating and invisibly moving along  Teaching video
2. Mighty river in a small gutter  Extension  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
3. Changing coastlines
4. Investigating small-scale sedimentary processes AND modelling mighty rivers  Teaching video  Teaching video (ages 9 to 11 years)
5. LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
Transportation by windDust bowl  Extension
Trees (‘net zero’ emissions targets)Let’s plant some trees
Trophic levelsWho ate the ammonite?  Extension
Tsunami1. Tsunami through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?    
Extension    Pupils’ work from Portugal    Booklet    Boxing Day, 2004
2. Tsunami - what controls the speed of the wave?  Teaching video  Extension
3. Tsunami alert!
4. Krakatoa - tsunamis
5. Natural hazards in your area?
6. Making waves: a storm in a teacup?
TungstenEssential minerals - tungsten
Turbidity current - density current1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
Turbidity current - sedimentary structures1. Sedimentary structures - graded bedding  Teaching video
2. Sedimentary structures - sole marks  Teaching video
3. What was it like to be there? – clues in sediment which bring an environment to life
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Unconformity 1. Opengeoscience 2: tilted and folded rocks (ELI+)
2. Filling the gap – picturing the unconformity ‘abyss of time’?
3. Modelling unconformity - by hand
Underground water cycleWatery world of underground chemistry (ELI+)  Teaching video
Underground water - wellsWell, well, well!
Underground pressure1. Under pressure (ELI+)
2. Water pressure - underground (ELI+)
Uniformitarianism 1. Fieldwork: Applying ‘the present is the key to the past’  Teaching video
2. Environmental detective
3. View to the future – and the past
4. What colour was the world in the past?
5. What layers are preserved?
6. Wriggling toes on ancient bedding planes
Uranium (power source)Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
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Valley with horizontal floorGeological mapwork from models 3: valley with horizontal floor (ELI+)
Valley with simple geologyGeological mapwork from scratch 2: valley with simple geology (ELI+)
Valley with sloping ridgeGeological mapwork from models 4: sloping ridge and valley (ELI+)
Vein minerals‘Crystallisation’ in a pudding dish  Teaching video
Viscosity of magmaBubble-mania
Visually impaired students 1.Block models in mapwork for students with VI
2. Modifying resources for students with VI
3. Modifying geological materials for students with VI
Volcanic eruption 1. Volcano in the lab (ELI+)  Extension  Teaching video
2. Blow up your own volcano!  Extension  Teaching video  Video  Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years)
3. Best classroom eruption?  Extension  Teaching video
4. Krakatoa - tsunamis
5. Natural hazards in your area?
6. Catastrophic natural processes
Volcanic eruption - magma viscosityBubble-mania   Volcano Simulator (Alaska Museum of Science & Nature)
Volcanic eruption - pyroclastic flow1. High flow, low flow? - atmosphere and ocean in a tank  Extension  Teaching video
2. Atmosphere and ocean in a lunchbox
Volcanic eruption - simulating dangerous swelling of a volcanoWhen will it blow? - predicting eruptions  Extension  Teaching video  Video
Volcanic eruption through the window ’thought experiment’Eruption through the window  Video  Volcano Simulator (Alaska Museum of Science & Nature)
Volcanic eruptions - partial melting 1. Partial melting - simple process, huge global impact (ELI+)  Extension
2. Partial melting model and real rock (ELI+)
Volcanic eruptions - prediction1. Party time for volcanoes (ELI+)  Extension  Extension  Teaching video
2. Take a ’Chance’ on the volcano erupting (ELI+)  Extension  Extension  Teaching video
Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)Krakatoa - tsunamis
Volcanic intrusion - radial dykesVolcanoes and radial dykes (ELI+)
Volcanic vents on geological mapsOpengeoscience 1 (ELI+)
Volcano collapseCollapsing volcanoes
Volcanoes, lava flows - simulationsSee how they run  Teaching video
Volcanoes and earthquakes - plate tectonicsGeobattleships (ELI+)  Teaching video
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Waning Moon1. Jaffa moon
2. Lollipop moon
3. Polystyrene moon
Walther’s law 1. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 1 (ELI+)
2. Walther’s law of sedimentation, part 2 (ELI+)
Water - comparison between rain water and bottled spring waterWater - a matter of taste or a taste of matter?  Extension
Water - changing state1. Water - changing state  Teaching video
2. Ice power (ELI+)
Water cycle1. Mini-world water cycle  Teaching video  Extension
2. Water cycle world  Extension
3. ’Tagging’ water molecules(ELI+)
4. Cycling water and heat in the lab - and the globe (ELI+)
5. Watery world Game (ELI Early years)  Teaching video
Water cycle undergroundWatery world of underground chemistry (ELI+)  Teaching video
Water - filtration, purification‘Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink’
Water (power source - HEP) 1. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
2. Storing water power
Water supply - wellsWell, well, well!
Water vapour - changing stateWater - changing state  Teaching video
Water vapour in the atmosphereEarth’s atmosphere - step by step evolution
Waves - coastal 1. Changing coastlines
2. Making waves: a storm in a teacup
3. Coastal erosion
Waves - earthquake 1. Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)  Teaching video
2. Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)  Teaching video
Waves - power source 1. Harbessing the power of waves
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension
Waxing Moon1. Jaffa moon
2. Lollipop moon
3. Polystyrene moon
Way-up structures 1. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ancient currents  Teaching video
2. Sedimentary structures - cross-bedding and ‘way-up’  Teaching video
3. Make your own cross-bedding  Teaching video
4. Sedimentary structures - graded bedding  Teaching video
5. Sedimentary structures - imbrication
6. Sedimentary structures - load casts  Teaching video
7. Sedimentary structures - sole marks  Teaching video
8. Sand ripple marks in a tank  Extension  Video
9. Sand ripple marks in a washbowl  Extension  Video
10. Cracking the clues - mudcracks
Wearing course of roadsRoadstone - which rock?
Weathering 1. Weathering - rocks breaking up and breaking down
2. Will my gravestone last?  Teaching video
3. Freeze-thaw weathering  Teaching video
4. Ice Power (ELI+)
5. Cracking apart (ELI+)  Teaching video
6. Weathering limestone - with my own breath! (ELI+)  Teaching video
7. Karstic scenery - in 60 seconds
8. Questions for any rock face 1: weathering  Teaching video
9. Enhanced weathering  Extension
Weathering / erosion - misconceptionsTeacher - ‘What’s the difference between weathering and erosion?’
Wegener, Alfred - continental drift - evidenceWegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
Well - working modelWell, well, well!
William Smith - 1815 geological mapWilliam Smith - ‘The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+)  Extension
Wilson, J. Tuzo - plate tectonics - evidenceWegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’ (ELI+)
Wind - erosion, transportation and depositionDust bowl  Extension
Wind (power source) 1. Farming the wind - through onshore and offshore windfarms
2. Which power source? - solving the crisis in Kiama (ELI+)  Extension