Digital Educational tools for the classroom and the outdoors
This section showcases a number of pre-exisiting digital educational resources available online with the addition of new ones developed through the GeoSite project. The new resources include a geological timeline highlighting the main steps of development of our planet as well as more focused ones for each of the four partner geopark regions.
Resources
Geological Timeline tool
Discover our planet’s history and evolution and try to comprehend what we mean by 4.6 billion years in the past.
Virtual tours
Explore remote geopark sites in an immersive 360º virtual experience.
Dialogue card game
A useful tool to start a conversation with your students either in the classroom or outdoors.
Other recommended online resources
There is a wide range of existing digital educational resources that were produced by universities, governments and other geoparks. Some of them are not kept up-to-date. The ones selected below offer different activities from the ones produced by this project and are of great quality and interactivity
Ancient Earth Globe
Turn back the time and plate tectonics and find out where your country, region or house was situated on the globe in geological time.
Rock cycle
A short video animation of the rock cycle produced by the Geological Society.
The climate game
A Financial Time produced interactive game to put players in the role of developing and enacting policies to achieve net zero carbon emission by 2050. Will you find the right balance to enact long term change for our planet?
The Open University geology library
Explore the wide range of activities and short articles on Geology developed by the Open University to use in the classroom
Fotspor
Create and share digital routes with engaging content
Geology toolkit
A range of digital activity to explore geology including rock identification