'What was it like to be there – in the rocky world? - bringing the formation of solid rock to life – by imagining yourself there when it formed'.

Related Earthlearningideas can be found in our Rocks section of the Earth Materials category.

   

Our ELI today is 'Curious creatures; using fossil and modern evidence to work out the lifestyles of extinct animals'.

Related activities can be found in our 'Evolution of Life' category - fossils (mostly invertebrates)

   

And now for something completely different . . . 'The ups and downs of ammonites; how did ammonites adjust their position in the sea'.

Related activities about fossils can be found in our Evolution of Life category - Fossils (mostly invertebrates).

   

This is the second ELI about identifying rocks in an outdoor collection - 'A forgotten rock garden - 2; help a geologist identify a treasured outdoor collection'.

This activity involves matching a set of photographs to their descriptions and locating them on an overall scene. It could form a useful revision activity, once pupils have acquired experience of a range of rocks. The answers are provided in the text.

Related activities can be found in 'Rocks' in our Earth Materials category.

   

How do hydrothermal minerals form? Our ELI today gives the answer - "Interactive hydrothermal mineralisation: ‘the rock with the hole’ hydrothermal mineralisation demo".

This ELI is a demonstration of how hydrothermal fluids flow through rocks, presented in a way to interact with pupils.

Other activities related to minerals can be found in our Earth Materials, Minerals category.