Kanawinka Geopark
Yesterday the Warrnambool Standard reported that, after more than two years, UNESCO has declared an area of land from Colac to South Australia as Australia’s first Geopark. The volcanic features of the...
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What is the deepest hole in the earth?
Photo Source Jules Verne wrote a novel called “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, about an expedition starting inside a volcano in Iceland. Although the novel was fiction, scientists have been...
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The Rock Cycle
Screen shot from Interactive Rock Cycle Animation How do rocks form? What are the three different categories of rocks? Click on the link above and find out about igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic...
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Friday 15th October
Image Source On Friday I will be attending the “21st Century Learners in Rural Communities” seminar in Melbourne, so you will have some work to go on with. Go to the Interactives Rock Cycle site and...
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Earth Science Week – Hong Kong Geopark
Today we had an exciting opportunity to link up with Ng Young C. Y., a Hong Kong national who is a driving force behind the establishment of the Hong Kong Geopark. He is an expeerienced presenter,...
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Top Ten Volcano sites
Image Source To celebrate Earth Science week I have compiled a list of my top ten sites for learning about volcanoes: Volcano Live web cam List of links to 23 web cam sites at volcanoes around the...
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Kanawinka Global Geopark
Lake Surprise at Mt Eccles National Park Hawkesdale is right in the middle of a geologically significant area, recognised by UNESCO as a Global Geopark, for it’s volcanoes, caves, tumuli, sink holes...
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