1. Welcome to SEPUP Training!
Stephanie Finn
Buffalo Public Schools

2. Goals for Today Questions/concerns IAES Studying Soils Scientifically
Student Book
Kits
Teachers Guide
Literacy Strategies
Journaling
Assessment
Pacing
Diverse learners/extensions
Group interaction/classroom management
Questions/concerns
weather through eyes of scientists who study weather, climate, and atmosphere and how weather, climate, and atmosphere affect daily lives.

3. Agenda 8:30 Welcome 8:45 – 10:00 Studying Soils Scientifically
10:00 – 10:10 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Studying Soils Scientifically
11:00 – 12:00 Lunch
12:30 – 2:00 Studying Soils Scientifically
2:00 – 2:10 Break
2:15 – 3:30 Wrap of Studying Soils

4. Science Education for Public Understanding Program
SEPUP
Science Education for Public Understanding Program
Talk about 5 e’s here and differentiation for all

5. Studying Soil Scientifically

6. Kits

8. Science Notebooks

12. Student Book

13. Activity #1 – Into the Field
Activity Type: Investigation
Content and Skill Area: Getting to know materials and equipment, introduction to the metric system.

16. Activity #1 – Into the Field
Add Activity to your table of contents (The number, the title, and page in your journal you will put activity on. I suggest page 7)
Go to page 7 in your journal. Place the number and title of the activity on the top.
Copy the Challenge question.
Materials
Procedure

17. Read the paragraph on page A-4
Answer the following question in your journal:
What do scientists spend time doing?

18. Observations

20. Lets perform the activity!

22. Analysis Questions – p. A-6

25. Activity #2 – The Garden Problem
Activity Type: Talking it over
Content and Skill Area: Variables affecting plant growth, evidence/opinion

26. Questions and Concerns idesktop.tv
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27. Have you ever grown a garden?

34. Activity #3 – Observing Soil
Activity type: Laboratory
Content and skill area: Vocabulary use in observations
This is the first lab your students will do!

36. Activity #3 Observing Soil
Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-12
Answer the following question in your journal:
What did the class do next to the garden?
What did Mrs. Clayson suggest the class do next?

37. SOIL

40. Answer the first question on p. A-14 in your journal by yourself
Answer the first question on p. A-14 in your journal by yourself! We will go over them in 5 minutes.

41. Lets do question as a class!

42. Please answer this question in your journal on a clean page

43. Reading Graduated Cylinders
What is a graduated cylinder?

46. Measuring Length
Using a ruler

48. Activity #4 – Soil Columns p. A-15
Activity Type: Laboratory
Content and Skill Area: Soil composition, color, texture, following a procedure, observations, recording and analyzing results, sketching

49. Activity #4 – Soil Columns p. A-15
Add Activity to your table of contents
Go to the next blank page in your journal after activity three. Place the number and title of the activity on the top of this page.
Copy the Challenge question.
Materials
Procedure

50. Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-15
Answer the following questions in your journal:
What is soil composition?
How can we learn about soil composition?

51. What were your definitions of soil from the last activity
What were your definitions of soil from the last activity? Let’s review them!

52. What does the word composition mean?
Composition is what something is made of or its specific ingredients.

53. Suppose we mix soils and water and leave them overnight.
In your journal, predict what you think will happen.

54. Lets review materials and the procedure before we begin

58. Stop here so that the soil columns rest and can settle
Stop here so that the soil columns rest and can settle. Begin activity #5. Note to participants that you would typically let soil columns sit overnight.

59. Compare your prediction from the beginning to your observations.

60. Lets answer the first two analysis questions as a class

61. Answer this question on the back of your soil column observations sheet.

62. Activity #5 – Soil Composition Textbook page A-18
Activity Type: Reading
Content and Skill Area: Soil composition, color, texture, following a procedure, observations, recording and analyzing results, sketching

63. Activity #5 – Soil Composition Textbook page A-18
Add Activity to your table of contents
Go to the next blank page in your journal after activity four. Place the number and title of the activity on the top of this page.
Copy the Challenge question.
Materials
Procedure

64. Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-18
Answer the following questions in your journal:
How did Chris know the garden was getting enough water?
What did Chris decide to investigate next?

65. Remember! Soil is a MIXTURE of materials!

66. Stop to Think

67. Key Vocabulary
Decompose
Nutrients
Organic Matter
Weathering

68. After teachers read and discuss reading, go back to soil columns

69. Lets work on a Soil concept map
Returning to Activity #5 Suggest that teachers may want to have students answer the first three analysis questions prior to beginning concept map

70. Analysis Questions

75. Lets take a break!

76. Activity #6 – Describing Soil Scientifically page A-25
Activity Type: Laboratory
Content and Skills: Soil composition, sand, silt, clay, topsoil

77. Activity #6 – Describing Soil Scientifically page A-25
Add Activity to your table of contents
Go to the next blank page in your journal after activity five. Place the number and title of the activity on the top of this page.
Copy the Challenge question.
Materials
Procedure

78. Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-25
Answer the following questions in your journal:
According to paragraph, what are three characteristics of soil?

79. Lets do the activity!

80. Copy this table in your journal

82. Analysis p. A-27

87. Level Three Response

90. Activity #7– Mapping Soils
Activity: Investigation
Content and skill: Soil types

91. Activity #7– Mapping Soils
Set up for activity 7 (you should know how to do this by now)
Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-29
Answer the following questions in your journal:
How many different soils are there in the world?
How many major categories of soil are there?

92. In this activity you will be acting like a soil scientist!
What does a soil scientist do?

93. You will need to work together with your group!
You will investigate the composition of soil in different parts of the United States.
You will need to work together with your group!

101. Activity #8 – The Dust Bowl p. A-33
Activity Type: Role Play
Content and Skill: Impact on human actions on the environment; history of the United States

102. Activity #8 – The Dust Bowl p. A-33
Set up for activity 8 (table of contents, next blank page, etc)
Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-33
Answer the following questions in your journal:
What is Chris’s mothers occupation?

105. What area of the country is known for good farming soil?

106. A long period of time without rain
What is a drought?
A long period of time without rain

107. Native Plants
A plant that lives or grows naturally in a particular region without human intervention

109. What was a major difference between the native plants of the grassland area and the farming crops that replaced them?

110. Do you think a disaster like the Dust Bowl can happen again?

113. Good Morning and Welcome Back!
Questions from yesterday?
Today we will: Wrap up the two activities we did with Studying Soils and then start Rocks and Minerals.

114. Activity #9 – Nutrients in Soil page A-40
Activity Type: Investigation
Content and Skill: Nutrients and Fertilizer

115. Activity #9 – Nutrients in Soil page A-40
Add Activity to your table of contents
Go to the next blank page in your journal after activity six. Place the number and title of the activity on the top of this page.
Copy the Challenge question.
Materials
Procedure

116. Read the 2 paragraphs and picture caption on p. A-40.
Answer the following questions in your journal:
What is the process where plants grow their own food?
What are the three nutrients that plants need to help them grow?

121. 15 words to use in the concept map

124. Activity #10 Organic Matter testing
Activity Type: Laboratory
Content and Skill Area: Organic vs. inorganic matter in soil; chemical testing, following procedures, record results

125. Activity #10 Organic Matter testing
Set up this activity in your table of contents.
Read the 2 paragraphs and picture caption on p. A-45.
Answer the following question in your journal:
How are nutrients released in the soil?

126. What do plants need in order to make food?

127. In this activity you will be testing the school soil (soil A) and comparing its organic matter content to soil B.

128. What are some of the things that make up soil?

129. Even though organic matter is an important component of soil, it is present in soil in small amounts.

133. Soil Sample
Observations
Final color
Amount of organic material A B C

135. Soil Sample
Observation
Final color
Amount of organic material A B C

137. Activity #11 Garden Action
Activity Type: Role Play
Content and skill area: Decision making based on evidence

138. Activity #11 Garden Action
Set up this activity in your table of contents and on your next blank page
Read the 3 paragraphs on p. A-49.
Answer the following questions in your journal:
What do plants do as they grow?
What do farmers and gardeners add to the soil?

139. What did we learn from Activity 10?
There was a low level of organic material in Chris’s school garden.

140. You will have a chance to decide what to do about the school garden.

144. Trade-off
What is a trade-off?