CROSS-CURRICULAR ELIs

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Back in time “Alligators spotted in London” @ELI_Earth - July 1 Retrieving and communicating information	Back in time
Earthquakes in art Developing a scientific report based on evidence in historic paintings	Earthquakes in art
Geo-art: paintings to sculptures inspired by all things ‘geo’ Create your own geo-artwork	Geo-art
Geo-literature: poems and stories inspired by all things ‘geo’ Create your own geo-poem or story	Geo-literature
Geo-music - music inspired by all things ‘geo’ Create your own geo-music	Geo-music	Extension
Rocks music Create your own geo-instrument	Rocks music	Extension Sound - Rock xylophone

ELI EARLY YEARS

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Changing state - transforming water Practical activities to change the state of water; solid, liquid, gas	Water - changing state	Teaching video
Dig up the dinosaur Become a fossil hunter and dig up a dinosaur	Dig up the dinosaur	Extension Video
Fossil or not? Discussion about what is a fossil and what is not	Fossil or not?	Teaching video
Fossilise! A game showing how fossils form and survive	Fossilise!
Found in the ground: sorted! An introduction to classification using things ‘found in the ground’	Found in the ground	Teaching video
Gold prospectors Panning for ‘gold’ in river sediment	Gold panning	Teaching video
LegoTM method of showing weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition Using LegoTM bricks to demonstrate sedimentary processes	LegoTM bricks and sedimentary processes
Make your own soil Investigating the type and origin of the ingredients of soil	Make your own soil	Teaching video
Make your own rock Investigating how loose sediment may be stuck together to form a ‘rock’	Make your own rock	Teaching video Extension
Pirates and buried treasure Grouping and sorting a variety of objects	Pirates and buried treasure	Teaching video
Scary scorpions Make your own scorpion and imagine how it lived	Scary scorpions
Sensory treasure hunt Using senses to match objects with similar properties	Sensory treasure hunt	Teaching video
Soil water shake test Investigate the components of soil	Soil water shake test	Teaching video
Rocks at school and beyond Investigating the building materials around your school and in your area	Rock around your school	Teaching video
Rock builder Simulating the formation of fossiliferous sedimentary rocks	Rock builder	Teaching video
Rock Explorer Putting rocks into families	Rock Explorers	Teaching video
Watery world game Climb through the watery world but watch out for snakes!	Watery world game
‘World in a grain of sand’ What can a grain of sand tell us about its past?	‘A world in a grain of sand’	Teaching video

GREAT SCIENTISTS

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Charles Lyell and Mount Etna, 1828 Dating the Earth – before the discovery of radioactivity	Dating the Earth - Charles Lyell and Mount Etna 1828
Darwin’s ‘big coral atoll idea’ Try thinking like Darwin did to solve the coral atoll mystery	Darwin‘s ‘big coral atoll idea’	Video
Darwin’s ‘big soil idea’ Can you work out how Charles Darwin ‘disovered’ how soil formed?	Darwin’s ‘big soil idea’	Video
James Hutton - or ‘Mr. Rock Cycle’? (ELI+) Thinking towards the rock cycle, the Hutton way	James Hutton	Rock cycle song
Marie Tharp: ‘The valley will be coming up soon’. Bruce Heezen: ‘What valley?’ ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’ - what was it like?	Marie Tharp: ‘A woman scientist in a man’s world’	Extension
Mary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology “A woman in a man’s world”	Mary Anning	Teaching video Animation by Anna Humphries, BBC website “The girl who helped discover dinosaurs”
Wegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’ (ELI+) How Wegener’s continental drift evidence matches up with evidence for plate tectonics	Wegener’s ‘Continental drift’ meets Wilson’s ‘Plate tectonics’	Video
William Smith - ‘The Father of English Geology’ (ELI+) Thinking like William Smith	William Smith	Extension

MATHS IN ELIs

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Bucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+) Modelling river pothole-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions	Bucket for a pothole
How many sand grains are there in a bucket – or on a beach? Planning activities to estimate the number of sand grains in a bucket – or on a beach	How many sand grains are there in a bucket – or on a beach?
Ice-thickness from scratch: visualising past processes by calculation (ELI+) Modelling glacial striation-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions	Ice thickness from striations

UK EXAMINATIONS

VISUAL IMPAIRMENT - teaching geology to students with VI

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI) - 1 Modifying block models to teach map-work to students who cannot see	Block models for students with VI
Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI) - 2 Modifying visual resources for students who cannot see	Modifying resources for students with VI
Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI) - 3 Modifying geological materials for students who cannot see	Modifying geological materials for students with VI

HOLIDAY GEOLOGY

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Holiday ELIs: Once upon a time, long, long ago . . . A geological fairytale	Geological fairytale
Bauble quiz Fun for all the family – and your class	Bauble quiz