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Grade 3 Science · World 2: Soil Lab · Level 13
Georgia's Soils
Connect soils to places: the Piedmont's red clay and the Coastal Plain's sandy soil.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 13
- Georgia has different soils in different places. In the Piedmont, in the middle of the state, much of the soil is red clay.
- Red clay gets its color from iron in the soil, a bit like rust!
- In the Coastal Plain, in south Georgia, the soil is sandier. Peanuts grow well there.
- Gardeners make clay better by mixing in compost, which adds humus. That turns it closer to loam!
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S3E1.b — Plan and carry out investigations to describe properties (color, texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support growth of plants) of soils and soil types (sand, clay, loam).