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ELI provides Earth-related, practical, thought-provoking ideas for science and geography teachers. All are free to download and your input is encouraged.

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In view of the recent fatal landslide in Nepal, today, the ELI Team is publishing "Landslide danger – and climate change; case studies of how landslides work and the likely effects of climate change."
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The latest new ELI in the 'Picturing' series is 'Picturing Landforms – 5: Mass Movement B; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.
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Continuing our theme of games, today ELI presents "‘Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game; model the stages of the rock cycle - with your pupils."
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The new ELI today is 'New or recycled paper? - the card game; an investigation into the environmental impact of making new paper or recycled paper'.
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'Changing coastlines; investigating how wave erosion, transportation and deposition can change the shapes of coastlines'.
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Picturing Landforms – 4: Mass Movement A
Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description.
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The innovative ELI today is 'The sliced Jelly Babies TM approach to understanding 3D geological maps; using Jelly Babies TM cut at the dip angle to highlight structures on geological maps'.
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Today's new ELI is another in our 'Picturing' series - 'Picturing Landforms - 3: Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

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The new ELI today is 'Chocolate Plates; simulating the properties of a lithospheric plate'.
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Today we have the ELI+ 'Electrical ground probing; measuring the electrical resistance of the ground to find buried objects'.
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Our new ELI today is another in our 'Picturing' series - 'Picturing Landforms -2; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.
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The new ELI today continues our climate change series with 'Greenhouse effect in a bottle: how to simulate the effect of increased CO2 level on Earth's temperature'.
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Because of the solar eclipse which is happening today, we are publishing 'Why does the Sun disappear? Demonstrate what happens when the Moon hides the Sun'.
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Our latest ELI+ is "‘Earth’s oxygen thermometers’ - simulating how ocean sediment and continental ice cores record past changes in Earth’s temperatures."
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'Exploring current flows through straits; testing the L. F. Marsili model of Bosphorus currents (1680)'.
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More activities useful when teaching climate change. The first is: 'Ocean acidification – The other CO2 problem; see how acidified water affects calcareous marine organisms'.
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'Ice-thickness from scratch: visualising past processes by calculation. Modelling glacial striation-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions'.
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The new ELI today is another in our very popular 'Picturing . . .' series - 'Picturing Landforms -1; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.
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'Rock detective – rocky clues to the past; investigating your local rocks to find out how they formed'.
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Our new ELI today is the third in a series of 'Teaching geology to students with visual impairment (VI) - modifying geological materials for students who cannot see'.
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