Soil teaching Lab
Schools
Curricula rarely involve the study of the soil and the risk is that students
conceive soil as a static and lifeless entity, "something dirty",
whose loss and degradation do not affect the ecosystem balance.
An
approach of soil study for young students is an important learning phase to
understand soil as a natural resource.
The
goal of the project is to introduce the soil issue in a simple and direct way
in order to promote observation, description, evaluation using sensory, emotional and creative approaches.
Laboratory
activities do not required sophisticated equipment, which besides being
expensive it would reduce the observation skill of the students. The materials
used are those that can be easily found in the environment around us, such as
gravel, sand, clay, soil, plant parts and lichens.
It's the choice of common
materials, which we daily come across in our mountains, that make the teaching labs easily
accessible to young students.
Teaching labs permit to work in groups,
all students become active participants who work together, where each one
contributes to the achievement of a common goal with his own motivation and
idea.
