Description
Soil properties and characteristics hold a lot of value in many careers and hobbies. This is an important lesson to share with students to teach them about the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil. This properties of soil interactive lesson is a fun, research-based lesson that will help your students to enjoy learning while retaining information.
Interactive lessons work to reduce student cognitive load by breaking down information into chunks with embedded activities to help students process information.
A print and digital version is available!
Soil Properties Lesson/Activity Covers:
- soil definition
- why soil is important
- components of soil
- physical properties of soil: color, texture, water holding capacity (permeability and porosity), and structure
- sand, silt, clay
- loam
- soil texture triangle
- infiltration
- peds
- chemical properties of soil: pH and salinity
- biological properties of soil: living organisms
- decomposers
- and more!
Soil Properties Interactive Activities Include:
- drag-and-drop
- KWL
- four corners vocabulary
- type-in-the-text box
- exploring outside resources
- and more!
There are 35 slides in all and an answer key is included.
This lesson goes well with NC Essential Standard: 6.E.2.3
When you purchase this product, you will be given access to a link that will allow you to open the file that is compatible with Google Slides™. You will then be able to share this with your students. If you’d like, there is a PPT version as well!
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