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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." Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

The latest new ELI in the 'Picturing' series is 'Picturing Landforms – 5: Mass Movement B; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot. com

Continuing our theme of games, today ELI presents "‘Rockery 2’ - rock cycle game; model the stages of the rock cycle - with your pupils." Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

'Changing coastlines; investigating how wave erosion, transportation and deposition can change the shapes of coastlines'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

Picturing Landforms – 4: Mass Movement A Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

Today's new ELI is another in our 'Picturing' series - 'Picturing Landforms - 3: Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

The new ELI today is 'Chocolate Plates; simulating the properties of a lithospheric plate'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

Today we have the ELI+ 'Electrical ground probing; measuring the electrical resistance of the ground to find buried objects'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

Our new ELI today is another in our 'Picturing' series - 'Picturing Landforms -2; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

Our latest ELI+ is "‘Earth’s oxygen thermometers’ - simulating how ocean sediment and continental ice cores record past changes in Earth’s temperatures." Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

'Exploring current flows through straits; testing the L. F. Marsili model of Bosphorus currents (1680)'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

More activities useful when teaching climate change. The first is: 'Ocean acidification – The other CO2 problem; see how acidified water affects calcareous marine organisms'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

'Ice-thickness from scratch: visualising past processes by calculation. Modelling glacial striation-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

The new ELI today is another in our very popular 'Picturing . . .' series - 'Picturing Landforms -1; visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

'Rock detective – rocky clues to the past; investigating your local rocks to find out how they formed'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com

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'. Free download: earthlearningidea.blogspot.com