Soil foldable activity bundle - layers of soil, earthworm life cycle, composting

Do you need something new and engaging for your soil studies or unit? This bundle of 3 foldable activities is ideal for interactive notebooks, and a fun and hands-on alternative to science worksheets. The bundle contains foldouts for three areas - layers of the soil, the life cycle of an earthworm, and how to make compost.

Layers of the soil

This activity covers 5 soil layers - humus, topsoil, subsoil, weathered rock, and bedrock. Options for differentiation are included.

Students color and complete their template, before cutting and folding in an accordion style.

Earthworm life cycle

This foldout covers four earthworm life cycle stages - cocoon, hatchling, juvenile, and adult worm.

There are different template and label options to allow for differentiation if required:

• Template 1: Children color the template and life cycle stages, arrange the stages in order, glue, cut and fold.
• Template 2: As above but with a straight cutting edge
• Template 3: Children color the template and life cycle stages, write the names (or descriptions) of the stages in the boxes, cut and fold.
• Template 4: As above but with a straight cutting edge

Also included:

• Full-page earthworm life cycle diagram
• Label the earthworm worksheet and answer page
• Earthworms 'can, have, are' worksheet

How to compost

Children color the stages of composting (the compost cycle), sequence the stages, cut out the template parts, glue, and fold. The template is included with and without a straight cutting edge so you can pick the one that best suits your learners.

There is also home/yard waste sort printable activity and a composting vocabulary word search.