Digging in the Dirt

Core Learning Experience

+ Supplies and Equipment

Possible/Expected Discoveries

Extended Learning and Other Curriculum Areas

• Place some dirt in sensory box – children use hands or various digging tools, and magnifying glass, to explore.
• Add clay or plastic pots, bulbs, seeds, water, model insects and other animals

• Use eyes, nose, and touch to find bits of leaves, rocks sand and decaying matter in the dirt.
• Compare 2 kinds of dirt. Differences, similarities?
• Make mud.
• Stir some dirt with some water in a jar. Shake it and watch and see what happens. The dirt particles slowly fall to the bottom.

•  Make a “dirt” collage on a paper plate, with small rocks, leaf bits etc. Add simple stand-up trees, dinos, animals etc.
• Crush or grind some different colored clays and mix with a little water to make “paint”. Use brushes and paint with it.