Teach students how animals, plants and humans depend on soil with this interactive science game for early years students.
What Is Soil Used For?
Chances are, on most days, you don’t give much thought to soil. Yet this underrated natural resource is always there in the background, providing nourishment for plants, habitats for animals, and food, fibres and building materials for humans!
This interactive activity is the perfect resource for reviewing the uses of soil with your early years students. Each slide contains an image. Students are required to look at the image and decide whether soil is being used by:
- Animals
- Humans
- Plants
If students choose the incorrect answer, they are directed to a ‘Try Again’ slide, which allows them to return to the previous question for another attempt. If the student chooses the correct answer, they are directed to a ‘Well Done’ slide and can move on to the next question. There are 10 question slides altogether.
If you’re an Office Suite user, you can download this presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Prefer the Google Suite? Just use the dropdown menu to select the Google Slides version of this resource. In both cases, be sure to operate the presentation in Slideshow mode to enable the interactive features.
This resource offers a great opportunity to include curriculum-aligned gaming in your classroom while also exploring the uses of soil with your students!
Further Extend This Soil Activity
This resource provides a great springboard for your explorations into soil and its uses.
While it may be tempting to work through the questions one after the other, do look for opportunities to extend your students’ learning by discussing the images on each slide in greater detail. Discussion questions could include:
- What is being shown in the image?
- How is soil being used in the image?
- What might happen if the soil in this image became unhealthy soil?
- What could you do to protect the organism in this image?
Download and Play This Uses of Soil Game
Use the Download button above to access either the Microsoft PowerPoint or the editable Google Slides version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it.)
Project the game onto your interactive whiteboard and work through the resource as a class for a paperless science lesson!
This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a Teach Starter collaborator.
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