For more than a decade, I have spent a large part of my time not only doing research in planetary science, but also visiting schools, science festivals, public events, and talking to children, teachers, and everyone interested in geosciences. During these outreach activities I repeatedly encountered the same problem. People were genuinely curious about volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics, or the interior of our planet, but when teachers asked me where they could find simple experiments to demonstrate these processes in the classroom, I often realized that I did not have much practical material to recommend.
There are, of course, many excellent educational resources available online. However, a large fraction of them either require expensive laboratory equipment, are too complicated to prepare within normal school conditions, or focus more on entertainment than on explaining the actual geological process behind the experiment. At the same time, I repeatedly realised that many available materials were not truly simple, visually attractive, scientifically correct, or easy to prepare and perform almost anywhere.
Více případně na odkazu, aneb můj text o almanachu geovědních experimentů na blogu EGU 🙂
