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Dirt or Earth Learning Activities

Go on a nature hike and identify non-living things, living things and signs of life (ex: dirt, ants and an ant hill or water, leaves and broken twig, etc.)
Get a bag of topsoil and bury items in it
Find rocks… paint rocks
Do a soil analysis. Find out how much sand, pebbles, clay, silt and soil is in your “dirt”.
Bury food for a week in your yard. Dig it up and see what happened to it
Make garden stones out of plaster/concrete
Sculpt a cup or box out of clay
Make dirt pudding. Have fun burying candy bugs into the dirt.
Draw a design on paper with glue then pour sand over it
Pick-up garbage in a park, along a quiet street or on a trail
Make a terrarium (mini-world in a bottle). See: http://colchu.com/2009/03/03/little-other-worlds/ for inspiration.

I discovered a terrific site that details more in-depth “dirt” activities. This site would be great for the older elementary to high school student.

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quirkymomma.com » Fun with Dirt said:

[...] watching dirt become mud when we add water to it… and basically having fun getting dirty! Here are some “dirt” activities they are doing this [...]

# 10 September 2009 at 1:22 pm

Cassie Rodriguez said:

Was curious as to what age group you are aiming the school activities for?

# 18 September 2009 at 11:36 am

admin (author) said:

The moms who write for Quirky Momma have kids ranging from 4 months to 8 years old. The dirt activity (http://quirkymomma.com/2009/dirt-experiment/) was done by my 2 and 3 year olds. Hope that helps.

# 18 September 2009 at 11:46 am