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Soils and Biomes

Dive into the world of soils and biomes with hands-on experiments, dish garden creation, germination studies, and newscast interviews. Learn about different soil nutrients, biome characteristics, and compare soils from Illinois to other parts of the world. Discover which areas have better or worse soils. Stay tuned for next week's activities on the PiV website!

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Soils and Biomes

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  1. Soils and Biomes

  2. Outline • Turn in your permission forms for the interview. • Pay attention to the timer – it let’s us know when we need to move onto the next step. • Today we will: • Experiment with different soils to learn what nutrients are better in which type of soils. • Build a dish terrarium representing a desert biome.

  3. Germination Experiment • Blog/vlog and website • Check out the results of your germination experiments • Did your results match what you expected? Why or why not?

  4. Biomes • What characteristics make up a biome? • What other types of biomes are there? • What biome do we live in?

  5. Soil • What do plants get from the soil? • Are all soils the same? • How would you predict soil from Illinois compares to soil from other parts of the world? • Which areas have better soils? • Which areas have worse soils?

  6. Soil Experiment • Follow your PiV Mentor and test your soil for: • pH • Potassium concentration • Nitrogen concentration • Phosphorus concentration • While your experiment is setting, build your dish garden!

  7. Dish Garden

  8. Newscast • Choose a student to be the interviewer and the interviewee. • Write questions as if you were conducting an interview about today’s lesson. • Don’t forget to write and practice the answers as well! • Use the video camera to tape your groups interview. • Take photos of experiment when done 

  9. Next Week • Check in at the PiV website to see what we’ll be doing next week!

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