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Climate change through time
Explaining our planet’s changing climate and the different rocks that formed as environmental conditions varied through geological time.
Critical minerals resources
Our modern lives rely on a whole host of metals and minerals that are extracted from the ground. Available resources include classroom activities and a touring festival stand.
Earth hazards resources
Make a volcano model or work through some classroom activities that introduce P- and S- waves, earthquake seismology and marsquakes.
Fossils and geological time resources
You can download, print and make a number of paper dinosaur puppets to play with or colour-in a geological timeline to hang in your bedroom or classroom.
Postcard geology
Find out more about sites of geological interest around the UK, as described by BGS staff.
Energy resources
Complete lesson plans with videos and worksheets on geothermal energy, energy storage and future energy planning.
Rock observation resources
When in the field, a geologist may not know what rock they are looking at so they must make some observations. These observations can then help them identify what
type of rock they have found.
The CheMUDstry Investigation
Mud, like everything around us, has its own chemistry. We all interact with soil
and its chemistry every day, without even knowing we are doing it! For our
CheMUDstry investigation we will be making mud pies and using them in different
activities to look at soil chemistry.
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