Category: #StratumYoung

I popped into Henry Moore’s alma mater last week, to talk to the Year 9 geography students about palaeontology and Geoscience for the Future. In preparing my talk, I was curious to know what rocks were beneath the school. On consulting the British Geological Survey map, I was unsurprised to learn that the bedrock was Carboniferous. This was Castleford, a...

I’ve been running quite a few primary school rock and fossil classes in Yorkshire this half-term. At Crofton Junior School near Wakefield, one of the girls in the class asked an excellent question: “What’s the difference between a rock, a stone, and a pebble?” I started with the easy bit, which is ‘pebble’ as that’s a particle between 4mm and...

Stratum Young is my new project to take Earth science into primary schools in the most-deprived parts of Yorkshire. Working with pupils, teachers, and local communities, Stratum Young will develop fun, fossil-flavoured activities to engage children with our amazing geology and palaeontology. And thanks to generous funding from the Yorkshire Geological Society‘s Geoscience Communications Fund, the first phase of Stratum...