Natural Sciences and Technology Grade 5-B ... - Thunderbolt Kids

Slowly pour the water onto the soil,
and wait 5 minutes.
Has all the water run through the
soil?
Let's do an investigation to see how much water the dierent soil
types can hold. For this investigation activity you need two
dierent kinds of soil, from two dierent places. Let us call them
Soil Aand Soil B.
Teacher's Note
Try and get soils of dierent soil types –ie. sand, clay and loam
soil. For the following investigation, the learners will have to plan
some of it themselves and will not be told step-by step what to do.
If you want to, you can make the investigation include all three
dierent soil types if you manage to get samples from each, and
then you will have Soil A, Band C.
Plan an investigation to compare Soil A, Soil Band Soil C, and then
do the investigation. The main question you must answer is the
question, which soil holds more water?
INVESTIGATION: Which soil holds more water, Soil Aor
Soil B?
When you compare things, you must be fair. For example, if we
want to compare runners in Grade 5athletics, we must let them run
on the same track. It is not fair if we let some of them run through
bushes but the others can run on asmooth track! We must treat all
the runners in the same way, to be fair when we compare them.
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