World Soil Day - 5th December
World Soil Day is held annually on 5 December as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for the sustainable management of soil resources.
This collection of resources includes videos, articles to promote discussion, practical activities and investigations all around the topic of soil. There is also a resource using the context of extracting water from lunar soil. Primary resources are towards the top of the list, and resources aimed at older students are toward the end.
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Rocks: rocks and fossils
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these resources give details of eight lessons on rocks and soils. This includes lesson plans, practical activities and all student materials. Students find out about what is under their feet. Students are always fascinated by rocks and, in this strand, they describe rocks and compare...
Extracting water from lunar soil - Learning about filtration and distillation
In this resource from the European Space Agency, students learn about changes of state of matter using water on the Moon as an example. They interpret data from a pressure vs. temperature graph for water to enable a discussion about how changes of state are different on the Moon compared to what we are used to on...
Bronze award: How do nutrients affect plant growth?
Despite the high rate of growth in rainforests the soil is poor in nutrients. The nutrients have been washed out of the soils by heavy rainfall. In this project, students are going to investigate how the nutrients in compost affect the rate of growth of seedlings.
Silver award: how do fertilizers affect plant growth?
Despite the high rate of growth in rainforests the soil in these forests is poor in nutrients. The nutrients have been washed out of the soils by heavy rainfall. In this project, students are going to investigate how different kinds of compost and fertiliser affect the rate of growth of plants.
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| Subject(s) | Science |
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| Age | 5-7, 7-11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19, FE/HE |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxj9fd |
