Soils
Integration Ideas and Activities
Lesson 9
How Water Moves Through Sand and Clay

Lesson
Activities to Consider
Tools
9
Mathematics

Weigh equal amounts of types of wet soil

Predict time it will take for seeds to sprout

Compare and graph germination times for different vegetables and flowers

Language Arts

Create on-going list of adverbs to describe how water moves through soil types

Continue to add vocabulary after it emerges

In journals, students describe their compost bags

Read the poem "Tommy"; then write poem about growing seeds


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