Free open educational resources from the University of Edinburgh to download and adapt for primary and secondary teaching.
Winner of the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Curation Award for this collection of high quality student made OER on the TES platform.
Free open educational resources from the University of Edinburgh to download and adapt for primary and secondary teaching.
Winner of the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Curation Award for this collection of high quality student made OER on the TES platform.
An eight-part project about sea level change since the ice age. Covers glaciation, global warming and isostasy. Includes lesson plans, presentations, workbooks and a template for a timeline poster to illustrate the content of the eight sessions.
Educational Level 3 & 4
(SCN 2.05, 3.05a, 3.05b, 2.17a, 3.20b, 4.08b, SOC 2.07a, 3.07a, 4.07a, 2.08a, 3.08a)
This resource bundle includes pdf and editable versions of the following:
Lesson plan
Learning context
Part 1: Introducing the Ice Age
Part 2: Finding Evidence for the Ice Age
Part 3: The Ice Age and sea-level change
Part 4: Coming out of the Ice Age
Part 5: Introducing isostasy
Part 6: Isostasy and sea-level change
Part 7: Current sea-level change
Part 8: The impacts of current sea-level change
Presentations
Lesson slides
Isostatic uplift
Timeline display
Timeline components
Student workbook (and version with model answers)
Photograph sets and question sets
This resource was created as part of the GeoScience Outreach Course which is a 4th year undergraduate course in the School of GeoSciences aiming to provide students with the opportunity to develop their own science communication and engagement project. This resource was originally created for Boroughmuir High School
Author: Roseanne Smith, adapted by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley and Martin Tasker.
Unless otherwise stated, all content released under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Cover image is Getz Ice Shelf by NASA/Dick Ewers, licensed under CC0.