A journey to the centre of the earth

A French writer named Jules Verne wrote a book called "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth". He wrote the book in 1864 (nearly 150 years ago!) before scientists knew very much about what is down there.

You know much more than he did so write your own story of how you would travel to the centre of the earth - what you would need, what you would see, what it would feel like, ...

A new film was made about Jules Verne's book last year - you might have seen it. You can see a little about the film on the Apple - Movie Trailers site.
In the film the scientists see strange new creatures. Draw a creature you imagine you'd see on a journey through the earth's lower layers to put with your story. Explain why your creature would live under the earth's surface.

Beneath our feet

There is an excellent site with information about the inside of the earth. It is part of Enchanted Learning and called INSIDE THE EARTH. You are going to use this site to find information about the layers of soil, rock and metal under our feet.
Go to the INSIDE THE EARTH page and use it to find the information you need about the names of the layers and what each is like - what it's made of, what its temperature is, etc.

The USGS site also has useful information that might help you understand about the layers inside the earth and how they affect our lives on the surface of the earth. You should also look at Structure of the Earth from the Southern California Integrated GPS.

                                                                         

Two Wonderful Worlds

There is another web site called Our Wonderful World - it belongs to the Geographical Association.

The picture above is of Mt Erebus in Antarctica.

Go to the Geographical Association website and answer the questions about this picture and one other.

Greenhouse Gas

And here is some more information about Greenhouse Gas and Global Warming that you can use in your news article.  There are puzzles and quizzes too!  Find out about your Carbon Footprint and how to reduce it.

Air Pollution

You can go to the Australian EPA's site for kids on Air Pollution.

There you can learn about smog and the way cars and industry hurt air quality. When you think you know it all have a go at the quiz!

The information at this site will help you with your Air pollution news article.

Sunsmart Slide Puzzles

I know you all enjoyed the Slide Puzzles. Here is a link so you can have a go for yourselves.
Go to Survivor Challenges from the SunKids home page.