2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science – Types of Soil Activities & Layers of Soil Bundle

Description

Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to teach your 2nd and 3rd grade students all about types of soil? This Layers of Soil Earth Science Bundle is packed with lesson plans, foldables, digital activities, labs, vocabulary, materials for early finishers, homework suggestions, and an end-of-unit quiz to engage your students! This activity pack on the types of soil and layers of soil is a teacher time saver and will make planning your earth science lessons quick and easy. This resource is a bundle of my worksheets and digital units.

This 2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science Bundle Will Teach Students About…

• Soil (What it is and its purpose)
• Types of soil (clay, silt, and sand)
• The different layers of soil (humus, topsoil, subsoil, parent rock, and bedrock)
• Properties and characteristics of each type of soil

2nd & 3rd Grade Earth Science – Types of Soil Activities & Layers of Soil Unit Paper Version Includes:

• 6 easy-to-follow lessons
• A mini vocabulary word wall
• Vocabulary cards with definitions
• Mini Vocabulary Posters with high-quality real-life pictures
• Vocabulary Foldables and notes page
• Anchor chart ideas and resources
• Fun printable posters
• Nonfiction reader to help you introduce the topic (great for printing or to display on a TV screen)
• Create your own picture book activity
• I found some dirt, soil, and rocks foldable
• Different Soils sorting activity
• What’s in the soil investigation
• Layers of Soil Experiment and Lab
• Layers of Soil diagram
• Yummy Layers of Soil Model (students will recreate the different layers of soil using fun food)
• KWL chart
• Bubble map
• 3.2.1 notes page
• 4 square activity
• Types of soil foldable
• Types of soil description worksheet
• Layers of soil description worksheet
• Types of soil cut and sort activity
• Wordsearch
• Drawing prompts
• Writing papers
• End of the unit quiz and key

Google Slides Version includes:

• Student-friendly links to help your students understand the topic
• Vocabulary cards (can easily be printed and used however you wish)
• Vocabulary Match It!
• Vocabulary sentence writing and picture activity
• Introduction/reading slides
• Comprehension questions
• KWL
• Bubble Maps
• True or False activity
• Properties of soil recording activity
• What’s inside your soil activity
• Types of soil – note page
• Layers of soil – note page
• Drag and label the layers of soil activity
• 3.2.1 Notes page
• Wordsearch
• 2 fun writing prompts

Your students will love having a hands-on activity to work on. For students to be able to complete this, they must have access to the internet and a Google account. Students will need to know simple computer skills, such as how to type in a text box and drag/drop image boxes.

See What Other Teachers Are Saying . . .

⭐ Great resource!  Lots of good options and examples.  I was especially please that it took a potential “dry” topic like soil and made it interesting and engaging for the students.

⭐ My students loved the unit on soil. The activity to go with the lesson was a wonderful experience and I will use it in my classroom next year.

⭐ This was perfect to use in my STEM Lab!! I loved this resource!