This instructional activity is managed through stations that students will rotate around every 20- 30 minutes. Each second grade teacher conducts one station. Parent volunteers can also be used to manage stations. Students will use an auger to gather soil, produce a soil painting, make a dirt cup to represent layers of soil, do a Shake It Up! activity to examine how soil settles, and examine local soil. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.

Concepts

clay, humus, sand, soil, soil layers

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Additional Tags

soil particles, alex, alabama learning exchange, cd.pk.4.2.1.a with modeling and support, recognize familiar elements of the natural environment and understand that these may change over time (e.g.,

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)