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  • Teaching through Trade Books: The Dirt on Soil

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    Have you ever played in the dirt? Repotted a plant? Planted a garden? In each and every one of these activities, you touched something that is a valuable resource in our lives—dirt! This month’s column has students…

  • Formative Assessment Probes: Soil and Dirt: The Same or Different?

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    This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores children's commonly held ideas about soil.

  • Scope on Safety: Digging up the dirt on soil safety

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    Should middle school science teachers be concerned about students bringing in unknown sources of soil to work on in class as the activity suggests? The science is well intended, but is it safe? What are some possible…

  • Tried and True: Soil is more than just dirt

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    This article describes a series of activities in which students investigate soil, culminating in the biomimicry of reducing landfill waste. After students learned about soil’s ecosystem structure and the function of its…

  • Dig In! Hands-On Soil Investigations (e-book)

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    Give students the dirt on soil with a practical book that brings new meaning to the term "hands-on." Using these 12 activities and two original stories as guides, kids will soon be up to their elbows in the study of…

  • Soil Studies: Applying acid-base chemistry to environmental analysis

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    To help secondary students understand acid-base chemistry, two educators design experiments focusing on acid rain’s effect on soil. Students conduct experiments to measure the pH of rainwater and soil before and after…

  • Soil

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  • SOIL

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    texture, color, particle size, water retention, support life

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    For 5E lesson plan resources

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