Lesson Idea | How Dirt Works
Provider: The Nature Conservancy
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Selected for its standards-aligned, hands-on exploration of soil’s essential roles, helping teachers build science understanding through engaging investigations
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This “How Dirt Works” lesson for Grades 3-8 explores the value of soil as a natural resource, its layers, and how it regulates water, sustains life, filters pollutants, cycles nutrients, and supports structures. Students investigate soil through demonstrations, videos, discussions, and activities.
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
Disciplinary Core Ideas
• LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
• LS2.B: Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
• LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
• LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
• ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions
Crosscutting Concepts
• Systems and Models
• Cause and Effect
Science and Engineering Practices
• Developing and using models
• Constructing explanations
Performance Expectation 5th Grade
• 5-LS2-1: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Lesson Idea | How Dirt Works
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