There are many kinds of soil. Handout Room Preparation Ample elbow room and place to keep soil sample jars. Safety Precautions None. Briefly go over these questions to come up with some basic understandings. Review the concepts, principles, and facts listed above.
Activity Make labels and put one on each jar for clay, gravel, humus, loam, rock, sand, and silt.
Put jars, digging spoons, or trowels in a bag or box. Go outside and try to get samples of each kind of soil. Put the samples in their own jars. Inside, get out magnifying glass. Put a little sample of each kind of soil in the pie plate, one sample at a time.