Lesson 10 Rocks and Soils: Soil Lab

Are you ready to play in the dirt today?!

Here is what you are going to need:

  • your science journal
  • a pencil
  • colored pencils
  • a small shovel or an old spoon
  • paper plates

Go outside and use the shovel or spoon you have to put anywhere from 2-5 different kinds of soils from different spots around your yard or neighborhood. Make sure you have permission and/or help from the grown-ups in your house so you don’t accidentally dig up their favorite plants! You can put these soils in different spots on the same paper plate, or you can have a different plate for each soil. You decide!

 

Also: Keep your soil samples for tomorrow. We are going to use them again!

 


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soils: sandy, loam, clay

 

soils alt tag.docx Download soils alt tag.docx

 

 


Assignment

Science Journal Entry:

Look at each of the soil samples you collected. Make a table with two columns in your science journal so that you can draw what each soil sample looks like on the left side. On the right, label the sample with what kind of soil you think it is based on what the digital poster above shows you. Then answer these questions:

  1. Is there a soil that seemed to occur the most around your yard? What soil is that?
  2. What did you notice about the size of the grains in the soil samples?

 

 

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