The new ELI today is 'The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"; how ocean currents trap our plastic waste'. This activity simulates how the ocean circulation of the North Pacific Gyre collects floating plastic pollutants, to form vast floating zones of ...
This activity simulates how the ocean circulation of the North Pacific Gyre collects floating plastic pollutants, to form vast floating zones of rubbish.
This ELI uses a real case to studyocean surface currents. After doing it, pupils can predict the routes of ocean surface currents; test their hypotheses and explain about the Coriolis effect. They can also explain about the connection of all oceans through ocean currents.
Related activities can be found in our Oceanographysection in the Investigating the Earth category.
This Earthlearningidea involves a discussion, with demonstrations, of the likely change in pH of water as it goes through the underground part of the water cycle.
Related activities can be found in he Water Cycle in our Earth as a System category.
This activity can fix in the mind of young students an image of the Periodic Table and help them to learn some characteristics of the chemical elements.
Related activities can be found in Minerals and Elements in our Earth Materials category.
This activity compares the chemical elements that make up a human body with those that make up the Earth. Notes and possible answers to some of the questions are provided.
Related activities can be found in Minerals and Elements in our Earth materials category.
