Literacy Arts Science Multi-mode communication and meaning making (transdisciplinary)

Soil Dwellers : Who makes their home in the soil?
How alive is your soil?
How many different organisms call soil their home?
Have you seen any rabbits, bilby’s, hopping mice, bandicoots, wombats or foxes living in the soil? What do we call these homes that animals make in the soil? Do they all have the same name?
Do they all make their home in the same way? What features/ body parts do they have that helps them to make their homes?
What kinds of insects or invertebrates live in the soil? How far down do they live in the soil? What other questions do you have?
Are there organisms in the soil growing that we cannot see? How could we find out?
What else do you see living in the soil?

Make a picture using the different materials to show what it looks like when an organism makes a home in the soil.

Poem called: What Remains by Sheryl Shapiro

Burrowing

I enter the dark, sweet depths

surrounded

enveloped

by fragrant scents

of the generations

Burrowing transforming fragments
into essential elements
rooting new life

Burrowing
through the hard pan
the stones
jagged
and
round

Excavating
with nail and nose
Passage
to an underground nest.

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