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Ground Plans for the Garden Wheelbarrow Bay

Compare garden soil-protection designs using wind and water data, then choose and improve plans for a wheelbarrow parking area.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to2-ESS2-1

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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students compare ways to reduce soil movement caused by wind and water.
Students use test data to choose and improve designs that protect land.

How to use

Read the test description together and review both graph scales. Have students compare the designs before choosing a plan for the garden.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-ESS2-1

Compare ways to slow or stop wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

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Ground Plans for the Garden Wheelbarrow Bay

Use test results to compare ways to keep soil in place.

Test the Garden Plans

Read about the model tests. Use the water graph for questions 1–5.

Soil Beside the Parking Space

The school garden has a parking space for wheelbarrows. Rain has cut small grooves in the soil beside it. Wind has blown dry soil onto the parking space. The garden team wants to protect this patch of land.

Imani's class made small models. They tested four designs: bare soil, a cloth mat fastened over the soil, a flat stone cover, and a short screen across the soil. Each model started with two cups of the same dry soil on the same gentle slope.

For the water tests, an adult poured one cup of water onto each model over ten seconds. For the wind tests, the class made fresh models of the same designs. An adult gave each model twenty strokes with a hand fan at the same distance.

Larger trays caught the soil that left each model. The class let wet soil dry. They used the same measuring spoon to count level teaspoons of soil that had moved out. The graphs show their results.