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Keeping Soil in Its Place

Students demonstrate rain drop splash (splash erosion) and determine its impact on bare soil by visually identifying types of erosion.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
90 minutes
Updated
January 24, 2023

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – History
    • NCSS 3 (Grades 3-5): People, Places, and Environments
      • Objective 5: Physical changes in community, state, and region, such as seasons, climate, and weather, and their effects on plants and animals.
      • Objective 7: Benefits and problems resulting from the discovery and use of resources.
  • Science
    • 3-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • 3-ESS3-1: Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
    • 4-ESS2: Earth's Systems
      • 4-ESS2-1: Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.