Students determine the water holding and draining capacities of different soils and will investigate how organic matter increases the amount of water soil will hold.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
3-5
Lesson Type
Activity
Lab Experiment
Lesson Keywords
organic
Porosity
humus
Clay
Sand
silt
Water Movement
soil pore size
Soil Physics
Soil Biology
Soil chemistry

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
3-5 ESS2.C: The roles of water in Earth's surface processes

Most of the Earth's water is in the ocean and much of the Earth's fresh water is in glaciers or underground.