Galva High School and Stark County High School
Integrated Science Curriculum
Year 1 Theme - Mother EarthVII. Soil Formation Unit (SI, Ch. 9)
A. Weathering
B. Controls on soil formation
- Activity: "Breaking up is easy to do" (HOGSA, p. 22)
- Demo: Salt block
- Demo: Rock oxidation
C. Soil characteristics
- Minilab: "Do earthworms cause soil mixing?" (SI, p. 273)
- Lab-Aids #: "How soil is formed"
D. Soil productivity/Nutrient content
- Minilab: "Is this soil?" (SI, p. 263)
- Investigation: "Documenting the variability of soils" (SI, p. 276)
E. Performance assessment: "Recipe for soil" (SI, p. 288)
- Lab l5: "living sotl" (SILab, p. 65)
- Lab-Aids #32: "Biology and chemistry of soil"
- Activity: Soil conservation (handout)