Start with bismillah.

Look at the soles of your shoes. Ask: "What can your shoes tell us about where you've been today?"

Watch the OutSCIder Classroom video about reading rock and fossil layers in the Grand Canyon. (It has background music, and a presenter appears.)

Now listen to the ayah together in the app, with the translation. Ask: "What will the earth do on that Day?"

Each child keeps one wonder question, for example: "What will the earth say about me?" Younger children can draw theirs.

Find it in the mushaf: Surah Az-Zalzalah is surah 99. Find ayah 4. The key word akhbaraha means its news. Many scholars explain that the earth will tell what people did on it.

Fact: In rock layers, which are the oldest, the top or the bottom?

Ages 5–8: Layer jar. Pour sand, soil, small stones and rice into a jar in layers. Which went in first? How can you tell?

Ages 9–12: Fossil story. Find out how an ammonite became a fossil. Draw the steps as a comic strip.

Finish with: "I found that the oldest rock layers are at the ___."

Talk together:

• If the ground where you walk could talk, what would you like it to say?
• Which name of Allah does this remind you of?
• How does it feel to know nothing we do is ever lost?
• What good things can we do on the earth today so its news is happy?
• What would you like to ask an ustaz or ustazah about this ayah?

Make a small plan: "This week, I will do ___ at ___ so that place has good news about me."

• Do your good deed in a special place: the mosque, school or a park.
• Pray in a different clean spot at home, so more of the earth can be a witness for you.
• Next time: the next ayah (99:5) explains why the earth will speak. Explore it together!

Action: Show someone at home your layer jar.