•  
  •  
 

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Soil is common to all of us, so common that few people think about it and its importance in our everyday lives. The activity presented here provides an analogy useful for helping students design experiments and explore how soil particle size affects its behavior. Originally a simple “cookbook” demonstration for community college students, we restructured it to be more inquiry oriented so that it mentally engages students and promotes several important goals for science teaching. We believe the modified activity is applicable across a broad grade/age range, perhaps from upper elementary to some introductory post-secondary science courses. This activity promotes National Science Education Content Standards A, B, D, and E, and Iowa Teaching Standards 2, 3, 4 and 6.

Publication Date

Spring 2007

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

34

Issue

2

First Page

18

Last Page

23

Copyright

© Copyright 2007 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.