Teach your Year 3 students all bout soils, rocks and minerals with this Earth & Space Sciences Unit Plan.

This 8-lesson unit explores the topics of Earth’s soils, rocks and minerals with science through hands-on observations, experiments and activities.

The unit plan package downloads as a zip file and contains the following resources:

1. Unit Guide: includes a scope and sequence, unit overview, lesson plans with associated resources, science experiments, assessments, rubrics and suggested resources.
2. PowerPoint: The Significance of Soils Teaching Presentations, Types of Rocks Teaching Presentation and Rocks, Soils and Minerals Quiz PowerPoint.
3. Displays: a unit banner, types of soil posters, types of rocks posters, soil layers display and word wall cards.

Two assessment tasks are included in the unit. The first is incorporated into a guided experiment which investigates growing plants in different soils over a few weeks with students creating a plant tag to communicate the results of the experiment. The second is a knowledge assessment to gauge student understanding of the content throughout the unit.