Our ELI today is "Why does soil get washed away? - investigating why some farmers lose their soil through erosion whilst others do not".

The extension to the activity also gives some good ideas, including painting with different soil types.

Related activities can be found in our Earth Materials category - Soils and in Earth processes - Sedimentary processes.

   

Our ELI today is 'What catastrophic natural processes affected your region in the geological past? Use the evidence in your local region to interpret dramatic geological events'.

Many related activities can be found in our Natural Hazards category.

   

Now we are approaching exam time, our ELI today is a good revision exercise, as are the other activities in the 'Picturing . .' series - 'Picturing igneous rocks 1 - visualise and draw igneous rocks from a verbal description'.

Related revision activities can be found in the table at the end of each 'Picturing . . ' activity:

   

Following on from looking at metamorphic rocks last week, today we investigate an exceptional piece of slate - 'Every rock tells a story; reading the rock history from an exceptional specimen of slate'.

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

   

Today's ELI is 'Building Stones 4 - Metamorphic rocks; what are the differences between metamorphic rocks commonly used as building stones'.

This activity uses photographs of metamorphic rocks used for ornamental purposes. This activity follows ‘Building Stones 1’ and is intended for pupils to deepen their understanding of metamorphic rocks. A table showing how the series of Earthlearningidea building stone activities link together is given on the final page.

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