I T S C I T I Z E N S C I E N C E Why should we look after our soils What is decomposition Bacteria Fungi amp Worms What is the Carbon Cycle Bacteria Fungi amp Worms ID: 634939
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What is the Tea Bag Index?
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Why should we look after our soils?Slide4
What is decomposition?
Bacteria Fungi & WormsSlide5
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Bacteria Fungi & Worms
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What will happen to our tea bags?
Green Tea
Rooibos TeaSlide7
Where can you do the Tea Bag Index?
Garden
Nature reserve
School grounds
Park
AllotmentSlide8
What will we need to do the
Tea Bag Index?
Today:
3 Lipton Rooibos tea bags
3 Lipton Green tea bags InstructionsRecording form
Sticks to mark where the tea bags are buried
Waterproof marker pen
Trowel or spoon
Metre ruler
In 3 months:
A warm and preferably sunny spot indoors where the tea bags and soil samples can dry when you have dug them up (such as a window sill)
A weighing scaleSlide9
How do we do the Tea Bag Index?
Step 1
Collect all your equipment and the instructions
Step 2
Weigh each of your tea bags one by one and number the labels
Step 3
Choose where you will conduct your survey, remember to ask permission!
Step 4
Write down all your observations information on your recording sheetSlide10
How do we do the Tea Bag Index?
Step 5
Measure out a 1
metre triangle and dig an 8cm hole at each point big enough to fit 2 tea bags
Step 6Bury the tea bags, one of each in each hole with the labels sticking out above the ground
Step 7
Remember to mark your site so you know where to look for your tea bags in 3 months time
1 meterSlide11
What will happen to our results?
Hello! We are Taru,
Joost
, Judith and
Mariet
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We are asking you to take part in the Tea Bag Index and
submit your
results to us on our website. Once we have lots of results from around the world we can create a global soil map to help us learn more about our climate!Slide12
Who else is taking part?Slide13
What about the SDGs?Slide14
Question Time!
And don’t forget World Soil Day
Monday 5
th
December!