Topic outline
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General
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This document provides important information on the rock cycle, for teachers.
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This presentation covers each of the major rocks types and their features. A great introduction and/or review tool for classes.
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This activity asks students to consider how rocks are relevant to their lives.
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Students are asked to consider scenarios across the entire rock cycle.
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This document provides important background information for teachers.
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In this activity students investigate the role vegetation plays in reducing erosion by water.
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This activity provides both a teacher demonstration and group based experiment to examine the role that wind plays in erosion.
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Students simulate powerful erosive forces and a ball mill in these experiments.
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This experiment measures soil creep over a range of slopes.
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Students consider how a local authority could prepare for a landslide using an occupational health and safety favorite.
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In this homework activity students examine the erosive power of glaciers.
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Students have a go at a traditional Aboriginal method for the physical separation of materials - yandying.
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These note provide a link to an online game which allows students to explore the timescales involved in erosive processes.
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