You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Task sheets
- ‘What am I?’ PowerPoint
- Teacher’s notes
Additional Resources
- Soil samples – see teacher’s notes
- Flip chart and marker pens
- Coloured pencils and A4 white paper
- Lidded tubs to store soil for the Soil Detective activity (enough for one per group or table)
- One per child of the following: plastic spoon, sheet of A4 paper, pair of plastic gloves and a magnifying lens
- Plastic beakers (jug style if possible), plastic funnels, cotton wool balls
- Finely calibrated measuring cylinders
- Plastic jars with tightly fitting screw lids
- Some non-standard measures of capacity, e.g. a scoop, a small cup, and a tablespoon
Weblinks
A very short clip which shows different types of soil from www.bbc.co.uk