M&Ms are Like Soil

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Description: This activity demonstrates that soil color can tell us a lot about a particular soil and the environment.
Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Keywords: soil color, iron oxides, rust, soil chemistry
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Resource Type: Activity

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
6-8 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth's systems, including the sun and Earth's interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
9-12 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
PreK-2 PS1.B: Chemical reactions Heating and cooling substances cause changes that are sometimes reversible and sometimes not.
3-5 PS1.B: Chemical reactions Chemical reactions that occur when substances are mixed can be identified by the emergence of substances with different properties; the total mass remains the same.
6-8 PS1.B: Chemical reactions Reacting substances rearrange to form different molecules, but the number of atoms is conserved. Some reactions release energy and others absorb energy.
9-12 PS1.B: Chemical reactions Chemical processes are understood in terms of collisions of molecules, rearrangement of atoms, and changes in energy as determined by properties of elements involved.