We Ate Dirt!

There was great excitement in our class this week.  On Monday, we reviewed the layers of soil  that we had learned about the week before.  We drew a picture on the board and labeled it with words to describe each layer.

Then we made it!  The best thing was that we could eat it!  First we made the bottom layer, called the bedrock.  Bedrock is solid rock so we placed a whole cookie in the bottom of our cup.  Next we took another cookie and broke it into pieces to create the parent material.  This layer is made up of sand, clay, and rocks.  Then we used butterscotch pudding for the subsoil and finally, we added  chocolate pudding to represent the topsoil.  We added sprinkles to represent the tree litter that sits on top of the topsoil.  We also added 2 gummy words because we know there are worms in the topsoil.  

After building our models, we took a picture of them with our iPads and labelled the levels using Skitch.  Can you see how we labelled all the ingredients?

Can you read the layers?

This is the best dirt I have ever tasted!

Mmmmm...... this is good!

I think I've had enough of this dirt!

Have you ever made soil?  Have you ever eaten it?  It was pretty tasty!