Rocks and Soils
Audience: KS2 Science
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Sorting rocks, minerals, plants and animal fossils
- Sorting rocks into local and global categories
- Exploring properties of local rocks and learning about their formation
- Separating the components of soils by sieving or settling in water
- Collection of surface and drilled soil samples
- Observations relating soils to plants
- Testing soils for particle size
- Investigation of leaf litter invertebrates
- Soil profiling
- Making and using soil paints
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Be able to distinguish between rocks, minerals and fossils
- Be able to identify local rocks and explain their properties and
uses
- Know how to identify soils according to particle size and organic
content
- Understand how plants are related to soil types
- Be aware of the decay process and the action of soil invertebrates
- Understand how weathering and erosion occur
- Have experience of making soil paints and an appreciation of their
qualities
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