Learning about Soil Layers can be fun amd memorable by making my Soil Layers card. Here's how it's done.

• 1 Soil profile card per student
• 1 inch x 3 inch piece of carpet tape per student
• Parsley flakes or other green dried herb
• Cocoa powder
• Reddish-Yellow seasoning (paprika, pumpkin pie seasoning)
• Gram Crackers  

Procedure:

1.    Peel down the tape on your profile card to just under the 0. But not as low as the 12. Sprinkle parsley flakes on it. This will be our leaves or Humus layer.

2.    Peel down the tape to 24. Sprinkle some dark cocoa powder. This is your topsoil.

3.    The subsoil is yellowish red so take some small bottles yellowish/red seasoning (Paprika, pumpkin seasoning) of the yellowish red jar and sprinkle that on the tape to about the 48. mark. 

4. Last, is the bedrock. Take some Gram Cracker pieces and sprinkle that on the remaining tape