3rd Grade Soil Comics
The soil unit in 3rd grade (SOL 3.7) is hard to teach because there aren’t many resources available. I’ve found a couple of websites that you can use and posted them here. One cool activity you can use to spice up your soil unit is to make a comic about soil using Comic Life. I got some pictures together of the different types of soils (sand, silt, clay, humus, loam), and I created a template to get your students started. The students can add speech bubbles to each type of soil explaining their characteristics. To show the different sizes, you can use the speech bubble, drag the tail into the bubble so it looks like a circle, choose a style, and type in it. The template also has a place for students to label the layers of soil (topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock). You can download all the files and a sample by clicking here.