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Pudong Grade 3: Edible Soil!

March 6, 2023

Grade 3 students at SHSID Pudong campus have started their study of soil with a tasty treat since March 3rd! They began with the questions: “What is soil?” and “How does rock turn into soil?” After learning about the soil process and the different soil layers, students became “soil scientists” and created “soil profiles”. The fun spin was the soil profile materials were edible, including chocolate rocks in the place of bedrock, oatmeal in the place of the parent material, cocoa puffs in the place of subsoil, and crushed caramel cookies acted as topsoil.

During the class, students firstly used their five senses and descriptive writing skills to record their observations of the soil materials. Then, they assembled their soil profiles together. After creating the soil profiles, each little soil scientist recorded their observations and explained the soil layers to three different classmates. When these tasks were finished, they were allowed to dig-in to the dirt! This was great fun for the students to experience the “delicious dirt!”

(Written by Haoruo Li Pictures by Haoruo Li Edited by Serene Yang, Niall Keenan）