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PURPOSE 
This resource has been put together by Geologize​TM​ for the purpose of helping provide 
entertainment to people during the ongoing ​COVID-19 lock-down​. 
It’s really important to ​stay home during this period​ and so ​if you know someone​ who could do 
with a bit of fun, likes looking at the world in a different way or simply loves learning, ​please 
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HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE 

The activities provided are for a range of ages. Some are not suitable for young children and others 
require adult supervision. 
● Colouring activities are suitable for all. Some explanations of the geoscientific diagrams 
may be necessary for children. 
● Fun structured lessons are suitable for all children and adults over 14 years old, but may be 
partially undertaken by younger children with adult help. The cooking activity requires 
adult supervision. 
● Video games and augmented reality activities require periodic adult supervision as 
software installation may be necessary and to avoid excessive screen time. 
 

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CONTENTS 
 
Learn and ​C​o​l​o​u​r 4 

Mini-Lessons 11 
How much salt is there in the ocean? 12 
What makes volcanoes explosive? 13 
The geology of your house! 15 
Reading past environments 17 
Other ideas 19 

Video Games, AR and Kids TV 20 

Waterfalls in Mario 21 
Volcano Minecraft 21 
Augmented Reality 21 
Geologize Peppa Pig 22 
Geologize Teletubbies 22 
Geologize Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 22 

 
 
 
 
   

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Learn ​and​ ​Colour 
 
 
 
 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS… 
There is no better way to introduce yourself to how the Earth works than by exploring and get 
creative with images. As you colour, always ask yourself questions; like “​What is this?​”, “​Why is it 
like this?​” “​What happens when this happens?​” “​How did they find out about it?​” 
 
 
   

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Pebbles and Star Fish 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Decorative Pebbles 
 

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Earth’s Structure. 
Guess which is the ‘inner core’, ‘outer core’, ‘mantle’ and ‘crust’. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Inside a volcano 
Is this a dangerous eruption or not? Why? 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Water (Hydrological) Cycle. River basin. 
 
High/secondary school students​: Label - tributaries, confluence, meanders, ox-box lake, 
transpiration, infiltration, the water table, delta and stratus clouds. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Earth’s Tectonic Plates 
Colour each plate a different colour. 
Extension activity: Google Image Search ‘Tectonic Plates’ and try to label the ones of the map! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Mini-Lessons 
For a more structured experience 
 
 
 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS… 
The lessons in this section are ‘differentiated’. In other words, they can be undertaken by small 
children with an adult's help, but offer additional activities to stretch older children and adults. If a 
lesson is labelled ‘EASY-MEDIUM-HARD’ it means there is something for everyone! 
 
 

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GEOLOGIZE LEVEL: EASY-MEDIUM-HARD  You will need 

How much  ●
●
Measuring jug 
Cooker 

salt is there in  ● Table salt 

the ocean? 
● A small frying pan 

 
Preparation 
Measure 100 ml​ of water using a measuring 
jug. ​Add 3 g​ (half a teaspoon) of table salt to 
the water. Stir to dissolve. 
Introduce the water as some seawater that 
you have collected! We are going to use it to 
find out how much salt is in the entire ocean! 

 
Task 
1. Weigh a small frying pan. Make a note of 
the weight. 
2. Add the salty water and boil until the 
water has completely evaporated. 
3. Note that the salt has been left behind 
proving​ the ocean has ​real​ salt! 
 
4. [OLDER KIDS} Wait for the frying pan to 
Takes: ​15-30 minutes  cool. Weigh it again and make a note of 
Adult supervision: ​Yes  the new weight (which should be about 3 
g heavier than before). 
Age: ​6+ ​(calculation is for older children and adults)  
5. 1 ml weighs 1 g. Using this we can 
 
calculate the percentage of salt in the 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS...  ocean 3/100 x 100 = 3%. 
Geochemists  often  use  ‘​back  6. [MUCH OLDER KIDS] There are 
of  the  envelope​’  calculations.  septillion (3 thousand billion trillion (!!) 
It’s  surprising  how  accurate  millilitres of water in the world’s oceans. 
they are! 
7. Using your percentage calculated above, 
Here  you  will  calculate  how  work out how many grams/tonnes of 
many  tonnes  of  salt  there  are  salt are in the oceans of the world. 1 
in the ocean!   
 
1
Answer should be approximately 30,000,000,000,000 tonnes of salt. 

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GEOLOGIZE LEVEL: MEDIUM   

What makes  You will need 

● 4 soft drink bottles (Diet Coke is best) 

volcanoes  ● Mentos 

explosive? 
● A drill / perforating device 
● 5 meter tape measure 
● A wet area (e.g. bath/shower/garden) 
● Something to take notes 

 
Preparation 
Perforate the caps of the coke bottles with 
different sized holes (e.g. 2mm, 5mm, 1cm, 
1.5cm). Extend the tape measure to around 
2.5 m and place against the wall of your ‘wet 
area’ 

 
Task 
1. Pour out (or drink!) a third of your Coke. 
  2. Place it carefully in front of the tape 
Takes: ​45 minutes  measure and remove the perforated cap. 

Adult supervision: ​Yes, for younger children  3. Add 5 mentos to the coke and quickly 
screw on the cap. 
Age: ​6+  
4. Make a note of how high the jet or Coke 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS... 
escapes from the bottle. 
Volcanoes are openings in the 
5. Repeat with the other bottles, noting 
Earth’s crust out of which 
cap hole size and jet height. 
poor lava. Explosions are 
common!  6. [OLDER KIDS]​ Use the graph paper on 
the next page to plot your results. 
How violently a volcano 
explodes is dependent on  7. What do you notice about the jet height 
several factors. How  and size of the bottle’s cap hole? 
small/large the aperture is, is   
one of those factors. 
 
Everyone’s heard of Coke and 
Mentos experiment.   
Geologize takes it to the next   
level!  

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Soft Drink and Mentos Results   

[OLDER CHILDREN]   

   
   
   
   
Height (m)   
     
   
   
 
 
 
 
Diameter of cap hole (mm)   
 
 
 
 
Show you know! 
To finish off 
Complete the sentences below using the 
following words.  Watch this cool animation that shows you 
HEIGHT EXPLOSIVITY NEGATIVE DIAMETER  the ‘Volcanic Explosivity Index’ (VEI). 

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Volcanic ______________ is dependent on   

several factors. One is the ________________ of 
More questions? 
the volcano’s opening (called the main vent). 
Write to @geologizeofficial if you have 
In our experiment, we showed that there is 
more questions about volcanoes! 
likely a __________________ correlation between 
vent size and the ____________ volcanic   
explosions can reach. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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GEOLOGIZE LEVEL: EASY-MEDIUM  You will need 
The geology of  ●
●
A magnifying glass 
Note pad 

your house!  ● Something to scratch (e.g. a metal object) 

● The rock guide on the next page 

 
Preparation 
None required! 

 
Task 
1. Take a walk around your house and 
garden and observe the different rocks. 
2. Make a note of the location of different 
kinds of rocks ‘​e.g. kitchen top is a hard 
rock with wavy bits in’​ or ​‘​walls of the 
bedrooms are made of large white stones​’​. 
3. Go back with your rock guide and with 
the help of the rock ID guide, try to 
identify the rocks you have seen. 
 
4. You may need your magnifying glass to 
Takes: ​45 minutes 
help with some of them. 
Adult supervision: ​Yes, for younger children 
 
Age: ​6+  
DID YOU KNOW…? 
 
Even something as seemingly boring as 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS...  plaster or floor tiles have remarkable 
Your house is made of the  geological stories! To find out how, watch 
Earth’s raw materials. Each  Dr Haydon Mort geologize his old 
one has an amazing story that  apartment in Brazil. 
stretches back millions of   
years. 
Discover them with this 
helpful guide. 
  https://youtu.be/AqiyaKtjUdQ 

   

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GEOLOGIZE LEVEL: EASY-MEDIUM  You will need 

Reading past  ●
●
Pancake mix, oil and frying pan 
Cinnamon and sugar 

environments  ● A thick straw or 10 ml syringe 

 

Preparation 
Pancake mix: Weigh 100 g flour. Add 2 eggs 
and 250 ml of milk. Mix until smooth. 
If using a syringe, cut the bottom off so that 
you are left with a hollow tube and the 
plunger. 

 
Task 
1. Make a pancake and place on a plate. 
2. Spinkle sugar, then cinnamon on top. 
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 at least 15 times 
until you made a large pile of pancakes! 
4. Take your thick straw or syringe. 
Twisting and adding pressure slowly, 
  drive it through the top of the pancake 
Takes: ​45 minutes  pile until you reach the bottom. 
Adult supervision: ​Yes, for the cooking.  5. Extract the pancake core, ensuring none 
it lost on the way up! 
Age: ​6+  
6. Remove the core from your corer by 
 
either cutting open your straw or using 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS...  the syringe’s plunger. 
How do geologists figure out   
what the environment was 
like millions of years ago?  NOW... 
There are actually many ways,  Watch this video by an ocean 
but one very important way is  drilling scientist to understand the 
by looking at the rocks  significance of what you have just 
themselves. In this lesson you  done! In this video, a cake is used. 
will ​make​ you own past  ​https://youtu.be/n98nJ6GRLaQ 
environment ​and read it! 
 
 
AFTER​: Turn over to finish the lesson! 
 

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IMAGINE​ that the ​pancake mix is limestone,  PANCAKE CORE LOG! 
the sugar is particles of sand and the 
 
cinnamon is iron oxide​. 
 
You have essentially made a repeating pattern 
of limestone (marine organisms), sand (washed  10 cm 
in from the land) and oxide (because of plenty of   
oxygenated water. 
8 cm 
These repeating patterns are called ​‘cycles’ 
 
and the sediments you have created have 
‘cyclicity’​.  6 cm 
If you were to draw your core to scale, what   
would it look like? 
4 cm 
THIS is an example ​of a ​real​ core drawing 
 
that a geologists may draw​. 
2 cm 
 
 
   
0 cm 
2m 
 
 
1.5m 
 
1m 
 
0.5m  Limestone 
  Nodules 
0m  Clay 
  Silt   
   
This example shows a series of rock types, 
one on top of the other. The ‘Index’ shows 
DON’T FORGET! 
you what the rock types are. The scale (0.5m,  When you’re done, be sure to post your 
1m etc) shows you the distance from the  pancake pictures to Instagram and tag 
bottom of the core.  @geologizeofficial. We’ll share them with 
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN! ​Use the template  the world! 
on the RIGHT​. Don’t forget your ​index! You   
can make one up yourself for you pancake 
 
(limestone), sugar (sand) and cinnamon (iron 
oxide)   

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Other ideas   
 
   
Keep a weather diary  UV (black) light fun. 
Try to plot your data on a graph. Try to note  They are only about £4 on Amazon. Check 
as many of these as you can:  out your teeth. They are made of 
● Temperature  hydroxy-fluro-apatite. A mineral contains 
● Wind direction  phosphorus and fluorine that glows under 
● Cloud cover  UV light. And your body makes it naturally!  
● Pressure 
● Humidity 

 
 

Knit a temperature record scarf 

These are awesome! Check them out. A 
different colour for every day of the year. 
Make your own colour scale.  

 
Shine that UV light around your house, but 
especially if you have any rocks or pebbles. 
You might be surprised at what glows! 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Video Games, AR and Kids TV 

Pure Earth Science Fun! 
 
 
 
GEOLOGIZE SAYS… 
In the world of Geologize, it goes without saying that playing Mario and Minecraft can both be 
life-enriching activities. We’ve got some amazing Augmented Reality Apps that will keep adults 
and children entertained and educated for days on end! 
 
And if you are an adult ​going out of your mind​ with very young children who like programs such as 
Peppa Pig​ and ​Teletubbies​, you are not alone and, ​YES, we even have something especially for you! 
 
This is a short selection of what Geologize has come up with for the lock-down! 
 
Don’t forget to take pictures and tag geologize on your instagram! 
WE’LL REPOST YOUR DISCOVERIES! 
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Waterfalls  Volcano  Augmented 

in Mario  Minecraft  Reality 
Pretty much every Mario  Minecraft has an  There are so many wicked 
game Geologize has come  outstanding educational  Apps out there that will 
across has a waterfall in it!  resource page:  inspire you. All you need is a 
But only some are  smartphone. ​Here are 
https://education.minecraft
geologically accurate!​ Do  Geologize’s top 3​. 
.net/ 
you know what is required 
to form a waterfall?  If you are a ​Mojang fan and
are interested​ in volcanoes, 
No? ​Check out​ this video to 
look no further than here! 
find out​. 
https://youtu.be/ilJzge07m  
cs  1. JigSpace (iOS and Android) 
  Put the Earth in your front 
NOW it’s your turn​! Grab  room and open it up. Wow! 
your Nintendo and play    Enough said. 
Mario! Find a waterfall.  https://bit.ly/minecraftvolc
Does it have two different  ano 
rock layers?​ Can you tell if 
one is hard and one is soft?  Once you’ve learnt a bit 
about volcanoes, have a go 
at making your own volcano 
in Creative Mode?  
HINT​: Command blocks and 
red stone can ​help your 
   
volcano erupt​! 
Screenshot from Mario Odyssey.  2. AR Moon (iOS) 
SEND us your pictures​! 
Open up a portal in your 
  front room, step through it 
Whilst you’re checking out  to...walk on the freaking 
the website, why not check  moon! Epic! 
out their other cool 
resources, such as 
  Extinction Safari?! 
Screenshot from Mario64. 
 
You can also look in 
3. WWF Free River (iOS & 
Mario64, Mario Galaxy 1&2, 
Android) 
Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 
Tour​ and several others!  Put an entire animated river 
  drainage basin on your 
  dining room table! 

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Geologize  Geologize   
Geologize 
Peppa Pig  Teletubbies  Mickey Mouse 
Have you ever noticed that  Little do they know it, but  Clubhouse 
Peppa and most of her  the phonetically challenged 
You’ve got the hang of 
friends and family live on  Teletubbies are sitting on a 
Geologizing​ kids TV 
very large, well-  wealth of geological 
programs. Now you’re a pro 
proportioned hills?  information​. 
and ready to take on your 
Have you noticed that there  Those pleasantly rolling  biggest challenge yet. 
always seems to be muddy  grassy hills very clearly  Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. 
puddles around?  have ​insufficient topsoil to 
allow tree roots to take 
 
hold​. 
 
That, combined with the 
  elongated symmetry of the 
 
  hills, can only mean one 
thing. ​Glaciers used to  As you watch the episodes, 
  pay close attention to the 
cover Teletubbyland​! 
  following: 

YOUR TASK!  1. Soil colour ​and if 

anything grows inside. 
FIRST​: Watch this cool 
2. Shapes​ of the hills 
drone footage of The 
3. Any ​exposed rocks​ that 
Chocolate Hills in The    you can see and their 
Philippines. ​Look familiar?! 
YOUR TASK  colour. 
https://bit.ly/chocohills  4. Possible ​species of 
FIRST​: Watch this 
trees.​ If you manage to 
Research them more on  animation on drumlin 
ID one or two, research 
Wikipedia to find out how  formation: 
what climate/soil 
they were formed! 
https://bit.ly/drumlins  conditions they like to 
SECOND​: Watch this video  grow in. 
Then, using this link and by 
about the different ​causes  5. The weather, how 
watching Teletubbies, 
of flooding​ / saturated  quickly it changes. 
estimate the ​height​ of the 
ground!  6. Climate zones and how 
Teletubby’s drumlins. 
https://bit.ly/floodcause  quickly they change 
https://bit.ly/tubbyheight  when Mickey and his 
NOW​: Come up with ​your 
It’s amazing to think that  friends travel. 
own ideas ​about how Peppa 
where those guys are  Once you’re done with all 
Pig’s world works! 
dancing around today, there  that, have an educated 
We’d LOVE to see them!  used to be ice 2 kilometers  guess at the ​geology,​ ​size​ and 
  thick!  even the ​latitude​ of Mickey’s 
  Clubhouse world. 
 
   

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