What Is World Soil Day? Poster

Read it together on or before December 5. Children can pick one box and explain it to a partner or use the facts in a short report.

One page with 5 fact boxes. It says World Soil Day is on December 5 every year, that the United Nations made it official in 2013 and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads it, that about 95% of our food comes from soil, that it can take up to 1,000 years to make 1 cm of topsoil, and ways we can protect soil.

Yes. We made it for 2nd Grade to 5th Grade holiday activities, and it works the same at home or at school. Families print it for one child and keep it where they will use it every day. Teachers print a copy per student or one for the whole room, whichever the day needs.

3 printable resources, all free to preview. There are 30 World Soil Day resources in all, from Preschool to 5th Grade, gathered on our World Soil Day activities page. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 2nd Grade to 5th Grade students, roughly ages 7-11. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Nothing here assumes a classroom of 25, so they work the same one-to-one at the kitchen table as they do in a 2nd Grade to 5th Grade classroom, a learning center, or a tutoring session.