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This section gives you loads of activity sheets to download and copy. They will help you learn more about soil and its properties hopefully whilst having fun! Most of the sheets also have a teachers page attached as well as the student sheet. The subjects covered here are directly related to the rest of the SoilNet website. Where possible, sections have indicative Key Stage indicators. Click here if you have problems opening these files:
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Activity sheets Desktop images School garden Soil Walks Terrain Builder Eco-Lifestyle Quiz SoilScapes Viewer
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Whose Poos? Whose Clues? Wormery
Soil Activity Sheets
Mushrooms Primary offline files
Soil soaking (pdf, 173K)
Soil-Net Photo Library
What is soil made of? (pdf, 1509K)
log in
Soil hand texturing (pdf, 5327K)
Testing soil (pdf, 398K)
What makes plants grow? (pdf, 1659K)
Jam Jar experiment (pdf, 357K)
Soil Chemistry Challenge (pdf, 293K)
Soil Chemistry Connections (pdf, 152K)
Whats In Soil? (pdf, 138K)
Soildoku! (pdf, 228K) Soildoku! (Deutsch) (pdf, 2896K)
Activity_Wormery.pdf (pdf, 655K)
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Soil-Net Factsheets
Factsheet: Soil components (pdf, 194K)
Factsheet: Soil types (pdf, 106K)
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Soil-Net Web Resource Worksheets
SoilScapes viewer (pdf, 1038K)
EcoQuiz (pdf, 384K)
Eco Lifestyles Quiz Personal Actions handout (pdf, 366K)
TerrainBuilder (pdf, 563K)
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Outdoor Activity Worksheets
Watering soil (pdf, 552K)
Wormhunt ! (pdf, 654K)
Testing the soil acidity (pdf, 518K)
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Introductory Topic Sheets
What is soil?
Why does soil matter?
How do soils form?
The beginnings of soil
Soils under the microscope
Properties of soil
Why and how soils differ
Soils as a living being
Soils, plants and food production
Soils of England and Wales
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Colouring Worksheets
Colouring in (pdf, 58K)
Colouring in (pdf, 53K)
Colouring in (pdf, 60K)
Colouring in (pdf, 71K)
Colouring in (pdf, 65K)
Colouring in (pdf, 68K)
Colouring in (pdf, 40K)
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Puzzle Worksheets
Maze puzzle (pdf, 384K)
Maze puzzle (pdf, 165K)
Soil word grid (pdf, 175K)
Multiple page Activity WordGrids (pdf, 364K)
Glossary wordgrids (zip, 1368K) - zip file of the glossary wordgrids for all the Soil-Net Primary movie animations
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Soil Type Maps
Brown soils
Ground water gleys
Man made soils
Organic soils
Pelosols
Podzols (or Podsols)
Rankers
Rendzinas
Salt marsh soils
Sand dune soils
Surface water gleys
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Soil-Net Posters
Biodiversity poster (pdf, 401K)
Earthworm poster (pdf, 270K)
Soil foundations poster (pdf, 190K)
Hungry plants poster (pdf, 234K)
Thirsty plants poster (pdf, 329K)
Soil chemistry poster (pdf, 224K)
Soil composition poster (pdf, 569K)
Soil pH poster (pdf, 247K)
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Soil-Net Promotion
Soil-Net Promotional poster (pdf, 228K) - please help promote Soil-Net by putting up this poster.
Soil-Net Handout (pdf, 452K) - use this handout to help promote Soil-Net.
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