Our new ELI today is 'What were the animals doing? Interpreting footprints and other marks in the sand.'

Footprints and other traces of animals, found as fossils, can tell us a great deal about what the animals were doing at the time. Pupils make footprints in sand for others to interpret. This is great fun!

Related activities can be found in our Evolution of Life category - dinosaurs.

   

"What colour was the world in the past? - using rock evidence and ‘the present is the key to the past’ to colour the geological world."

Related activities can be found in our 'Environment' category.

   

Our ELI today is 'Now and then – spotting the difference; how did the conditions differ between today and when the rock was formed?'

This ELI is a thought experiment, attempting to compare various aspects of the environment when the rock was formed, with conditions today.

Related activities can be found in our Environment category.

   

'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)