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We provide a range of free, and low-cost STEM resources for schools and further education. Our resources include theory presentations, activity sheets, information fact files, and informative posters for your classroom.
Earth Systems - The Rock Cycle
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Earth Systems - The Rock Cycle

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the rock cycle. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how the Earth’s materials are cycled in the rock cycle. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 23 slides covering: • Time • Igneous Rocks • Sedimentary Rocks • Metamorphic Rocks • Processes of the Rock Cycle • Magma • Cooling • Mid Atlantic Ridge • Weathering • Erosion and Transport • Deposition • Burial/Compression/Cementation • Heat and Pressure • Melting Again • The Rock Cycle
Earth Systems - Rocks
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Earth Systems - Rocks

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at rocks. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how rocks are formed. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Igneous Rock • Sedimentary Rock • Metamorphic Rock
Earth Systems - Plate Tectonic Theory & Plate Tectonics
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Earth Systems - Plate Tectonic Theory & Plate Tectonics

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A special dual presentation resource covering Plate Tectonic Theory and Plate Tectonics. ***************************************** Presentation 1: Plate Tectonic Theory A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at plate tectonic theory. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore historical development that supports plate tectonic theory. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 21 slides covering: • Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism • Continental Drift • Plate Tectonics • Lithospheric Plates • What Causes Plate Motion? ***************************************** Presentation 2: Plate Tectonics A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at plate tectonics. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the movements of the plates that make up the Earth’s surface. Explore geological events caused by plate motion. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 35 slides covering: • Basic Structure of Earth • Tectonic Plates • What Causes Plate Motion? • Plate Boundaries • Convergent Boundaries • Divergent Boundaries • Sliding Boundaries • Ocean Basins
Earth Systems - Natural Hazards
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Earth Systems - Natural Hazards

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at natural hazards. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how science can be used to make predictions of natural hazards and reduce their effects. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • Natural Hazards • Predicting Natural Hazards • Volcanic Hazards • Studying Volcanoes • Decade Volcanoes • Volcano Monitoring • Mitigation • Evacuation • Other Natural Hazards
Earth Systems - Natural Catastrophes
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Earth Systems - Natural Catastrophes

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at natural catastrophes. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how natural events and human activities create catastrophic events. Identify the impact of catastrophic events on ecosystems. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 20 slides covering: • Natural Hazards • Floods • Tsunami • Earthquake • Hurricane • Where Do Natural Hazards Happen? • Effects of Natural Hazards • Natural Disasters • Why Study and Monitor Hazards? • Human Activity
Earth Systems - Life and the Earth - Coevolution
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Earth Systems - Life and the Earth - Coevolution

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at life and the Earth - coevolution. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Recognise how living organisms have changed the atmosphere, the oceans and the surface of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Life • Changing the Atmosphere • Iron Formations • Changing the Atmosphere • Changing the Land • Changing the Land and the Atmosphere • Changing the Oceans • Coevolution
Earth Systems - Humans and Ecosystems
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Earth Systems - Humans and Ecosystems

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at humans and ecosystems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how increases in human population and consumption of natural resources have an impact on Earth’s systems. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 29 slides covering: • World Population • Population and Resources • Energy Consumption • Population and Energy Use • Water Consumption • Ways to Reduce Water Consumption • Change of Land Use • Waste • What Can We Do? • Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Earth Systems - Human Impacts on Earth System Relationships
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Earth Systems - Human Impacts on Earth System Relationships

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at human impacts on Earth system relationships. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how humans are impacting Earth system relationships. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 23 slides covering: • Human Impacts on Earth Systems • A Warming World • Atmospheric Climate Change • Impacts on the Hydrosphere • Sea Level Rise • Coral Bleaching • Deforestation and Earth Systems • Impact on the Hydrosphere - Ocean Acidification • Impact on the Biosphere - Ocean Acidification • Computer Modelling
Earth Systems - Ground and Surface Water
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Earth Systems - Ground and Surface Water

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at ground and surface water. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore sources of ground and surface water. Identify the effects of human activity on ground and surface water. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 35 slides covering: • Water and Life • Fresh Water • Surface Water • Run-off • Watershed • Ground Water • Aquifers • The Water Table • Water Quality • Water Pollution • Effects of Water Pollution
Earth Systems - Geological Time
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Earth Systems - Geological Time

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at geological time. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how evidence from rock strata can tell us about the history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Time • Rock Records • Dating Rocks • Relative Dating ��� The Principle of Uniformitarianism • The Principle of Original Horizontality • The Principle of Superposition • Principle of Cross Cutting • The Principle of Inclusion • Principal of Faunal Succession • Fossils • Relative Dating • Absolute Dating • Geological Time • Precambrian • Cretaceous Period • The End of the Cretaceous Period • Quaternary Period
Earth Systems - Formation of Crustal Features
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Earth Systems - Formation of Crustal Features

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the formation of crustal features. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 30 slides covering: • Tectonic Plates • Plate Movement • Boundary Events • Plate Boundary Types • Convergent Boundaries • Oceanic Trenches • Divergent Boundaries • Sliding Boundaries • Rift Zones and Valleys
Earth Systems - Earth's Energy Balance
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Earth Systems - Earth's Energy Balance

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth’s energy balance. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the concept of the Earth’s energy balance. Recognize how changes in the Earth’s Energy Balance affect the global climate Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 32 slides covering: • Energy • Energy Balance • Atmosphere Gases • The Greenhouse Effect • Upsetting the Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings • Earth’s Energy Balance • Radiative Forcings - The Sun • Radiative Forcings - Atmospheric Aerosols • Radiative Forcings - Volcanoes • Radiative Forcings - Greenhouse Gases • Radiative Forcings - Surface Albedo • Forcings and Feedback • Feedback and Water • Earth’s Energy Balance
Earth Systems - Earth's Early History
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Earth Systems - Earth's Early History

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth’s early history. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Investigate the formation and early history of the Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text, diagrams, tables and graphs. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • The Formation of Our Solar System • Dating the Formation of Our Solar System • Radiometric Dating • The Early Earth • Life
Earth Systems - Introduction to Earth Systems
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Earth Systems - Introduction to Earth Systems

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at Earth systems. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore how Earth systems interact. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 27 slides covering: • Atmosphere • Hydrosphere • Geosphere • Biosphere • Earth Systems • Interactions • Water and Atmospheric Interactions • Albedo • Ice • Feedback • Snowball Earth • Earth System Feedback
Earth Systems - Earth Model
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Earth Systems - Earth Model

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at an Earth model. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the structural layers of Earth. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 21 slides covering: • Composition of the Earth • Depths • Structure Regions • Modelling the Planet! • Predictions • Visualization
Earth Systems - Distribution of Natural Resources
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Earth Systems - Distribution of Natural Resources

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at distribution of natural resources. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the distribution of mineral, energy and groundwater resources. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 45 mins 26 slides covering: • Mineral Resources • Ore Deposits • Volcanic Processes • Hydrothermal Processes • Sedimentary Processes • Copper Mountains • Metal Resources • Energy Resources • Coal • Oil and Natural Gas • Non-Renewable Resources • Finding New Resources • Water • The Aral Sea
Earth Systems - The Water Cycle
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Earth Systems - The Water Cycle

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the water cycle. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the stages of the water cycle. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 24 slides covering: • The Water Cycle • Our Water is Millions of Years Old • Water Can Gain Energy • Evaporation • Factors That Affect Evaporation • Convection • Condensation • Rain, Snow or Hail • Rainfall • Soaking into the Ground • Percolation • Run-Off
Earth Systems - Soil Composition
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Earth Systems - Soil Composition

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at soil. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the process of soil formation. Explore the composition of soil. Explore how human activity can damage the soil. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 40 mins 29 slides covering: • Soil Composition • Soil Formation • Physical Weathering • Chemical Weathering • Erosion and Deposition • Minerals • Organic Materials • Beneficial Organic Material • Harmful Organic Material • Water and Air • Life and Soil • Damaging Activities • Soil Conservation
Earth Systems - Oil Pollution
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Earth Systems - Oil Pollution

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at oil pollution. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the problems related to oil pollution. Investigate the causes of oil pollution, how it can be prevented and how polluted areas can be treated. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 24 slides covering: • Oil Pollution • Mineral Oil • Sources of Pollution • Offshore Drilling • Large Oil Spills • Seepage and Burning • Maintenance and Disposal • Damage to the Ecosystem • Sea Birds and Sea Otters • Killer Whales • Clean-up Methods • Containment • Recovery • Break Up • Removal • Prevention
Earth Systems - Impact of the Sun's Energy
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Earth Systems - Impact of the Sun's Energy

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A presentation suitable for KS3 looking at the impact of the Sun’s energy. Presentation includes multi-choice questions to engage students and get them thinking about the subject throughout the presentation. Learning Objective(s): Explore the impact of the Sun’s energy. Main Skills: Interpret written text and diagrams. Duration: Approximately 30 mins 24 slides covering: • The Sun’s Energy • Transfer of Energy • Radiation • Conduction • Convection • Uses of Radiated Energy • Life on Earth • Winds • Ocean Currents • The Water Cycle