You're the Expert: Soil

You're the Expert: Soil

A real-world scenario.

Scenario

• Your a soil expert for Portsmouth Soil Company

• Your assigned to the location for the new elementary school

• The site used to be a parking lot.

• Most of the top soil and sub soil was removed years ago.

3 areas need soil

• Picnic Table Area

• Vegetable Garden Area

• Playground Area

Your Job:

Prepare a soil recommendation for each area of the new school location. Your recommendation will need to help the school board understand why soil is important and why you chose the soil type for each location.

Multiple Select

What does your soil recommendation need to include?

• A drawing

• A soil type for each area.

• The reason soil is important.

• A reason you choose each soil type.

Let's review the Soil Data

Thankfully another soil expert collected the data for us.

On the next slide you'll see the number of flowers that grew in each type of soil.

Multiple Choice

What type of soil should you use if you want plants to grow?

• Sand

• Clay

• Humus

Water Retention

That same soil expert gave us day on water retention too.

On the next slide you'll see data showing how much water drained out of the soil. Remember if the number is high it means the soil DID NOT hold water well.

Multiple Choice

Which type of soil would you use if you DID NOT want puddles to form.

• Sand

• Clay

• Humus

Congratulations

You are ready to make your recommendation.

Complete the asssignment in Schoology to prepare for your presentation.