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Students Learn about Prairie Soil at the Soil and Solar Festival
On 15 June, roughly 175 participants engaged in hands-on science at the Waterville Primary School Soil and Solar Festival led by Xcite Learning. Students in grades K-4 and their family members attended the event that included five Soil Tent Activities to learn about the school prairie’s soil: soil layering in take-home tubes; comparing sand vs. silt vs. clay; building a model soil profile; conducting a soil texture ribbon test; and creating a 10 x 4 foot soil mural out of multi-colored construction paper. The festival also included activities focused on solar energy such as launching and playing with a 50-foot solar kite, enjoying s’mores cooked using a solar oven, making solar bead bracelets, and making photos using solar photography paper.
Funding for the Soil Tent activities was provided by the GLOBE U.S. Coordination Office and the USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region (Agreement Number 21-CS-11090100-035) in conjunction with summer program funding received by Waterville Primary School from the Ohio Department of Education.
Photo captions, from top to bottom:
- The soil mural created at the Soil and Solar Festival
- A student investigates soil
- Students work on the soil mural
- Students and adults investigate soil
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