This is a comprehensive soil interactive notebook. Inside you will find:

*What is Soil? Reading Passage and Notes Foldable
*What is in Soil Foldable
*Properties of Soil Foldable- Focusing on color, texture, particle size, ability to support plant growth, and capacity to retain water
*Organic and Inorganic Sort
*How Soil is Formed Sequencing Sort
*Looking at Soil Lab- Students can look at up to three different soils and their properties
*Soil Venn Diagram- Students can compare and contrast two types of soil
*Types of Soil Foldable- Silt, Sand, Loam, and Clay
*Capacity to Retain Water Lab
*Types of Soil Sort
*Ability to Support Plants Lab with Observation Journal- Students will plant lima beans in different soil and watch what happens
*Layers of Soil Foldable- Topsoil, subsoil, parent rock, and bedrock
*Layers of Soil lab- Students will create an edible layers of soil model and fill out the recording sheet

These end up being 16 pages worth of an interactive notebook! There are many places for differentiation added in. For all foldables and activities there are teacher directions and pictures given.

Please look at the preview for some examples.

This product supports TEK 3.7A and TEK 4.7A for science.