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This toolbox is a collection of teaching material kids at the age of 5 to 8 years on the topic of soil; it consists of the following parts:

ABC of Soils provides teachers with the necessary scientific background.

Curriculum is a context of teaching objectives, how to perform these objectives and what pedagogical methods are adapted.

Teaching methodology gives an overview on the offered teaching units with information concerning time, recommended place for teaching and social form. Here the teaching modules, the "heart" of the website, are allocated to five chapters:

      1. Introduction
      2. Soil Sealing
      3. Soil Pollution
      4. Soil Erosion
      5. Conclusion

Teaching Modules are the main outcome of the EU project "Dig and Learn". They describe the large number of modules and give information about objectives, needed Material and refer to appropriate worksheets and technical instructions.

Worksheets supplies you with copy patterns of worksheets to be completed by the children.

Technical Instructions and Laboratory Equipment gives detailed information to teachers how to construct single experiments.

The glossary of teaching terms introduces some useful definitions of most used teaching terms.

Useful Literature is a selection of recommended literature chosen by the three partner-countries of the EU project, Germany, Hungary and Romania.

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