Soil Observations

The students practiced using tweezers and hand lenses to observe the contents of soil samples. Would you believe how surprised they were to discover live "rolie polie" bugs in the samples!

Dirt Cups

I'm sure many of you do this, but I haven't done it in a long time. My teammate, Leeann Timms planned making these soil cups as a review of the parts of soil. I remember now why I love it... It tastes great! The bottom layer is chocolate pudding. Each child transferred the contents of a pudding cup to the clear cup pictures. The pudding represents the sticky clay bottom. The next layer is graham cracker crumbs for sand. I bought the box of crumbs ready to go. We added a couple of gummy worms and then added the top soil...crushed oreo cookies (without the white cream.)