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An online lesson plan, supported by video clips, which includes frost shattering and the formation of igneous rocks.
Chemical weathering or: my breath and rock chippings from the car park. Practical exercise from excellent RSC JESEI site with teachers' and pupils' notes.
Worksheets and details of practical work to illustrate many aspects of rocks, weathering, rock cycle and carbon cycle.
A pack of lesson plans that can be downloaded, together with video clips from the BBC children's science show that are linked to each lesson. The pack has worksheets and suggested activities for KS3 and 4.
Details of different types of rocks, weathering and rock cycle. Also activity (video) and test.
Lovely Flash animation of the rock cycle; each section provides clickable links to further animations and information.
An interactive game based on key words that could be played in pairs or small groups, or on an interactive whiteboard.
Multiple choice quiz with random questions from Doc Brown chemistry website.
Linked word fill quiz on rocks and weathering.
Quiz for matching rock types to descriptions with little animated images.
Random multiple choice quiz covering the rock cycle.
Linked word fills covering the rock cycle material.
Crossword on the rock cycle from Doc Brown's chemistry site; larger harder version also available.
British Geological Society resource. Interactive world and UK maps showing recent earthquakes, worksheets and information about earthquakes and seismology.
Downloadable files with lots of clear background info and pictures about fossils and rock cycle (look down the list) from the UK Fossils Network.
Homepage for Earth Today and Tomorrow gallery at the Natural History Museum, with some information about weathering and soil erosion (also climate change and other topics).
Clear accessible background reading materials on the rock cycle, Earth structure, plate tectonics, atmosphere, etc from Moorlands School. Please note: a few links are broken.
Downloadable files with lots of clear background info and pictures about fossils and rock cycle (look down the list) from the UK Fossils Network.
These pages describe the major fossil groups that are commonly found.
This is a interactive website in which students can investigate the structure of the Earth, and learn how our current continents started as Pangaea. They can also study in detail what happens at the boundaries of tectonic plates, including convergence, divergence and transform boundaries. They can take a quiz at the end to test their new knowledge.
Students can investigate different examples of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and learn how they are formed. They can then specifically look at the how metamorphic rocks are formed from igneous or sedimentary ones. Then they are shown how all that they have learned fits together into the rock cycle. They can take a quiz at the end to test themselves.
A brief summary of the three types of rock.
Information and video clips about fossils and fossil formation from BBC nature.
An animated page showing convection currents in the Earth's mantle.
Observe an animation of convection currents in the Earth's mantle.