A Printable Soil Book for Elementary Students

As teachers, we at Teach Starter HQ understand how challenging it can be to find high-quality, age-appropriate resources to use in your science lessons. In our constant pursuit to make planning easier for our members, we’ve created this printable soil mini-book specifically for younger students. 

While engaging with this printable soil book, students will learn about the following topics:

• What is soil?
• Types of soil
• Sand
• Loam
• Silt
• Clay

The final page of the mini-book contains a “Show What You Know” section where students have the opportunity to demonstrate how well they have grasped the concepts presented.

This resource contains four Letter-size pages. Each page includes two mini-book pages (8 pages in total). To assemble the mini-book, follow these simple steps.

1. Print out the resource. Create copies as required.
2. Cut each page along the dotted line.
3. Compile the pages in order.
4. Staple the pages along the left-side margin to create a booklet. 
5. Distribute to the students.

This resource is available as a black-and-white PDF or an editable Google Slides file.

Your students can refer to their mini-books as a valuable source of information for the duration of your unit on soil!

Multiple Uses for This Soil Book for Kids

Looking for ways to incorporate this soil resource in your classroom? Here are one teacher’s suggestions.

1. Unit Introduction – Providing your students with their own mini-book to explore can be a great way to introduce a new unit of work, as it captures the students’ curiosity and attention.
2. Reading Center Activity – Why not use these mini-books as a collaborative reading group activity? This is a great way to integrate your science and literacy curricula by covering multiple learning outcomes with one resource! 
3. Revision Task – Mini-books make great study guides! Before a test or summative assessment for your soil unit, have the students use their mini-books to review key concepts and vocabulary.

Get Your Hands on This Printable Soil Book

Are you ready for your students to use this easy-to-assemble reader? Simply click on the green Download button and choose between the quick-print PDF document or the editable Google Slides file. (Note: If you select the Google Slides option, you will be prompted to make a copy to your personal Google Drive.)

This resource was created by Kaitlyn Blevins, a teacher in Georgia and a Teach Starter collaborator.

More Teacher-Made Soil Resources

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Types of Soil Chart

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How Soil Is Created – Teaching Presentation

Learn about how soil is made with this 15-slide teaching presentation.