Science

Geological events

An AR classroom game for Grade 6. Learners can aim with their hands at the camera or play by tapping the screen.

This set has 4 rounds in an interactive sorting activity.

Curriculum indicatorว 3.2 ป.6/1

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A look before you play

Sample questions

A few real prompts from the game to help you choose an activity for your class.

01
Sort the changes into groups.
Sort into
- happens suddenly
- happens slowly
- an earthquake
- rock weathering
- a volcanic eruption
- coastal erosion
Read the explanation
Some events are sudden and violent; others happen slowly.
02
Sort the rocks into groups.
Sort into
- igneous rock
- sedimentary rock
- granite
- sandstone
- basalt
- shale
Read the explanation
Rocks fall into three main types according to how they formed.
03
Sort the natural hazards into groups.
Sort into
- water-related
- crust-related
- a flood
- an earthquake
- a tsunami
- a volcanic eruption
Read the explanation
Some hazards come from water, others from movement of the earth's crust.

Before you play

Game teaching guide

What children will practise

Sorts geological events: sudden or slow, igneous or sedimentary rock, water-related or crust-related hazards, and resources that run out or renew. Fits ว 3.2 ป.6/1 (how rocks form) and ว 3.2 ป.6/6 (natural hazards and their effects).

What's in the worksheet

4 questions, a sorting game with four items each - Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are sudden; rock weathering and coastal erosion are slow - Granite and basalt are igneous; sandstone and shale are sedimentary - Floods and tsunamis are filed as water-related; earthquakes and eruptions as crust-related - Iron ore and natural gas run out; sunlight and hydro power renew

How to use it in class

Use it in an Earth and natural-hazards unit, about 6 minutes in teams. On question 3, stop to point out that most tsunamis are caused by undersea earthquakes, so they are both water- and crust-related, then recall the 2004 tsunami on Thailand's Andaman coast. After question 1, ask which provinces suffer coastal erosion. You can link it to a class and record it in the gradebook.

Common sticking points

- Question 3: putting the tsunami with crust-related, knowing tsunamis come from earthquakes, which is correct reasoning. The item really is ambiguous; if a child gives this reason, count their understanding as correct even though the game keys it as water-related. - Question 2: calling basalt sedimentary because the name is unfamiliar. Explain that basalt forms from cooled lava. - Question 4: calling iron ore renewable because steel can be recycled. Separate recycling from forming anew in nature.