Observing Soil

  

We found lots things in the soil from our school garden, that it contained things like water,dead and decaying leaves, roots and bark, stones, pebbles, clay, sand, compost, sand, loam and someone found a tiny seedling and a dead bug.  Can you see how closely we are looking. We couldn't see the air though!  To see the smaller things we used a magnifying glass. What we really needed was a more powerful microscope so we could see all the microscopic fungi, bacteria, bugs and particles.  We noticed, made notes and used our observations to explain and justify our thinking.  Here is the soil sample and some of the things we found.