Soil profile Lego lab

First let’s learn about soil and its layers – Soil profiles

This image comes from  Build a Layers of Soil Model by Sarah McClelland.

Clicking that links brings us to instructions for students to build their own realistic model of the Earth’s layers of soil. This can be adapted for use at any level of high school science.

Learning Standards

NGSS HS-ESS2-5. Plan and conduct an investigation of the properties of water and its effects on Earth materials and surface processes.

NGSS Science & Engineering Practices: Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Asking questions and defining problems in 9–12 builds on K–8 experiences and progresses to formulating, refining, and evaluating empirically testable questions and design problems using models and simulations.

•  Ask questions that arise from careful observation of phenomena, or unexpected results, to clarify and/or seek additional information.

Developing and Using Models – Predict and show relationships among variables between systems and their components in the natural and designed world(s)

• Develop, revise, and/or use a model based on evidence to illustrate and/or predict the relationships between systems or between components of a system.

NGSS Appendix F – Science and Engineering Practices in the NGSS

Practice 3 Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Planning and carrying out investigations in 9-12 builds on K-8 experiences and progresses to include investigations that provide evidence for and test conceptual, mathematical, physical, and empirical models…. Select appropriate tools to collect, record, analyze, and evaluate data.

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