Soil Education Kit

Unearth the Wonders of Soil: The Ultimate Soil Education Resource

Inspire your students to explore the soil beneath their feet with the Life Rocks Soil Education Kit, carefully crafted to ignite curiosity, increase understanding and fuel inspiration for Nature and Earth Science. This comprehensive kit serves as your all-in-one, Australian curriculum-aligned soil education resource, bringing the fascinating biological activity in the soil to life for students from Foundation to Year Six.

Why choose soil as your STEM topic?
How can we get young learners excited about something as important every day and yet as important as soil? Soil’s accessible nature and crucial role in our lives make it the perfect springboard for diverse learning. Through tactile samples, microscopes, and interactive learning, we’ll uncover the fascinating, living world of soil—full of mini-beasts, chemistry, and the processes essential for life.

Soil is alive, and its health is critical for our future. Modern agriculture faces challenges, and the answer is always soil health. By exploring soil, students connect to food security, sustainability, and environmental science. Best of all, soil combines three things every child loves: mud, rocks, and bugs!

Included in the Life Rocks Soil Education Kit:

• The Life Rocks Soil Teaching Handbook:
  A comprehensive guide including all scientific information needed to teach Soil Science with confidence.

• 18 Complete Soil Science Lesson Plans:
  These ready-to-go lesson plans are aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9.0 and can be tailored to different year levels, learning styles, or teacher preferences.
  
  

• The Soil Book:
  This large-format illustrated exploration of soil life features an engaging rhyming narrative introducing some key soil organisms, followed by real-life images and further scientific information.

• Discovery Mat and Soil Creature Cards:
  A hands-on learning tool paired with 25 soil creature cards, integrating soil science games and activities. 

• Portable Digital Microscope Camera:
  With an incredible 500x magnification and high-quality photo capture feature that easily shares to large screens for classrooms.
  

• Petri Dishes & Beans:
  For fun, hands-on classroom experiments.

• Clay:
  For interactive, hands-on activities.

• Stickers:
  Fun take-home stickers for students.

• Cotton Storage Bag:
  Convenient storage for the entire kit.

Digital Resources Included:

• Engaging teaching presentations (with photos and videos), student worksheets, student nature journals, and a digital version of the Life Rocks Soil Teaching Handbook.