INSET Taster Activities for Teachers

View examples of some of our workshops:

Primary Activities | Secondary Activities | Scottish Activities | Earth Physics Activities

Primary Activities

KS2 (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

• How the Earth works in your classroom: Coastal Crumble
• Spot that rock: Shaking the Rocks
• The Rock and Soil Circus comes to Town: Will my rock hold water?

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Secondary Activities

KS3 (with focus on the QCA Scheme of Work – England only)

• The Dynamic Rock Cycle: Deformation - make your own folds and faults
• Spot that Rock: Rocky Predictions and Explanations
• Earth Science Out of Doors - Any Quarry Guide: quarry potential
• Earth Science Out of Doors – Will My Gravestone Last:  pupils notes, map of churchyard and pictures of gravestones
• Earth Science Around Your School

KS4 (with focus on GCSE Science specifications – England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

• ‘Life, the Atmosphere and Everything: ‘the washing line of time’ [Applicable to AQA, OCR 21st Century Science, OCR Gateway (excluding CCEA, EDEXCEL)]
• Life, the Atmosphere and Everything: a year in the dome [Applicable to AQA, CCEA, EDEXCEL, OCR 21st Century Science, OCR Gateway, WJEC)]
• The Earth and Plate Tectonics: prediction of earthquakes [Applicable to AQA, CCEA, OCR 21st Century Science (excluding EDEXCEL, OCR Gateway, WJEC)]
• Life, Energy and Everything: Global Climate Change, Energy crisis - what energy crisis? Oil and natural gas UK - did they get it right? [Applicable to CCEA only]

Science in an Earth Context: KS3 Biology, Chemistry and Physics

• Biology - Life's Cycle
• Chemistry - The heat is on! – can heat cause chemical breakdown?
• Physics - What physics can you see from the window?

Science in an Earth Context: KS4 Biology, Chemistry and Physics

• Biology - What is a fossil
• Chemistry - The metal in me – calcium
• Physics - Soil Resistance

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Scottish Activities

Early to Fourth Levels (Based on the Curriculum for Excellence)

• Scotland Rocks!:  Rock Builder
• Scotland's Rocky Journey:  Compaction and Cementation
• Scotland on a Plate:  Properties of the Mantle - potty putty

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Earth Physics Activities

14-19 (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)

• Climate Change - Make and Test Your Own Savonius Wind Turbine
• Seismology - Brickquake (laser) Activity
• Geophys - Electrical Ground Probing (Earth-Resistance Surveying)

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