Soil Layers
Students watched two videos on soil horizons and made a flip book to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.
Start this video at the 1:40 min mark, the stuff before is not relevant to curriculum content
After watching video for the second time through, students and I did a Mind Map on the whiteboard of all the vocabulary words and concepts from the horizon levels that were discussed in the video.
Next students received a Soil Horizon flipbook and worked in groups to assemble the information inside the booklet correctly.
They drew a picture on the front to depict the characteristics of each soil layer!
Next week they will create Soil Horizon Cups with their group members!!
Because I don't want the students to be on a sugar high all day from candy/food soil cups, I will have the groups brainstorm what materials they can use to represent each layer from the craft supplies that I have and from materials gathered outside (ex. buttons for the Bedrock, grass for Organic Layer).
They will plan as a group what materials to gather, they will then go gather up supplies and will lay them out on a desk and place a label by each object/item. I'll snap a photo from each group to assess understanding/thinking/communication/knowledge skills.
They will be able to assemble their Soil Horizon Cups as a group! filling out one of these afterwards!
