Students travel back in time to the year 1100 AD as serfs, and carry out soil investigations to propose solutions for the problem of poor wheat production on a feudal manor.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
6-8
Lesson Area
Soil Forensics/Archaeology
Lesson Type
Activity
Lesson Keywords
Culture
History
land use
Soil Forensics/Archaeology

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
6-8 ESS3.A: Natural resources

Humans depend on Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.