Monday, August 29, 2016

Super Soil Sleuths in Science


Day 1 of Science this week is all about being soil detectives. Mrs. Galloway set up four dry samples of soil from a river basin, desert, mountain, and forest. The students viewed the samples using hand lenses and described the soil using their vocabulary words pebble, gravel, sand, silt, and clay. They also observed the soil sample in water to help differentiate the dead plant matter, humus, floating on top. They made a drawing of their observations and came up with a conclusion based on their observation.  These soil mysteries were solved thanks to great scientific investigation.







 

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