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All too many teachers in the UK have suffered ‘whole school’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) days, where a highly paid consultant is brought in to cover the latest fad in ‘target setting’ or ‘Health and Safety regulations’, and the costs are justified by insisting that all members of staff must attend.
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1 Dig up the dinosaur – become a fossil hunter and dig up a dinosaur
2 Quake shake – will my home collapse?
3 Earthquake predication – when will the earthquake strike?
4 Tsunami – what controls the speed of a tsunami wave?
5 A valley in 30 seconds – pulling rocks apart
6 The Himalayas in 30 seconds! Making a miniature mountain range in an empty box
7 Why do igneous rocks have different crystal sizes?
8 Rock, rattle and roll – investigating the resistance of rocks to erosion…
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Kennett, P., King, C. (2015). Using Darwin to Teach Earth Science. In: Boulter, C.J., Reiss, M.J., Sanders, D.L. (eds) Darwin-Inspired Learning. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-833-6_14
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