Soil

Students will explore the composition and characteristics of different local soils and learn about what makes soil healthy.

Learn how soil is different on Mars than on Earth, and what that means for growing plants on the red planet.

List of hand-on activities connected to plants

If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.

Learn about soil, soil texture and the various layers of soil.

Students will explore the composition and characteristics of different local soils and learn about what makes soil healthy.

Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.

5 images some work that a scientist who studies the Earth's soil might do such as classifying types of soil and measuring the slope of soil

5 images of some work that landscapers might do such as planning, planting and maintaining gardens

5 images of some work that farmers do such as feeding cows, planting fields and harvesting grain

5 images of some work that horticulturalists might do such as cultivating and caring for plants in various environments