GRADE 4

SOIL LAYERS MODEL

MATERIALS:

 chocolate chips

 butterscotch chips

 chocolate pudding

 Oreo cookies

 shredded coconut

 green food coloring

 gummy worms

 clear plastic cups

 plastic spoons

HOW TO: In each student's plastic cup, layer the food items in the following
order:

1. Bottom: A handful of chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, mixed. (This

bottom layer represents the bedrock.)

2. Lower-Middle: Chocolate pudding. (This lower-middle layer represents

the subsoil layer.)

3. Upper-Middle: Crushed Oreo cookies. (This upper-middle layer represents

the topsoil layer.)

4. Top: A couple gummy worms and a handful of green-colored coconut flakes.

(These represent the organic material at the surface level.)

5. DEADLINE will be on or before May 8, 2023

NOTE: You can use different ingredients than the ones we chose or add labels to
each soil level. Be creative and have FUN!

This will be your FINAL EXAM. NO WRITTEN EXAM.

NO FINAL OUTPUT/PROJECT MEANS NO FINAL EXAM.

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layers-activity