What you need for a soil safari:
- Spate
- Organism group form for the childred to put in the numbers of organsims they found (find pdf below)
- Plastic layer or some place where to put the excravated soil
- Some curious children or any other interested people
- Magnifying glasses in case you want to zoom in seeing those eyes, wings, legs a bit closer
How to do a soil safari:
Excravate a 25x25cm quadrad that is 20 cm deep. Put the soil on a close plastic layer or also on asphalt or any other flat surface will do the job. Start with kneeing over the soil pit looking for animals. Put in the abundance numbers in a little list. You can do this in groups (I would recommend not more than 6 persons, otherwise it gets a bit crowded). You can also repeat in different environments like urban, grasslands, orchards, forests or vegetable gardes. Compare your results afterwards! Use magnifying glasses to zoom in on those tiny details. Also, for identification of an unknown organism, google lense or any other AI-based animal-recognition can help. There are also some soil life identification applications out there. Have fun!!
