I was sitting in church last night, glanced down at my hands, and discovered I had DIRT under my fingernails. I looked like I was an earth science project. But in reality, I’m only doing a science project about earth science.

In my last post I told about my science project fail, and hinted that I had found a replacement. And – you guessed it – it involves dirt. Or, to be more scientifically accurate, it involves soil. Whichever, it is about the earth, any way you slice it.

This project idea was given to me over a plate of good old fashioned North Carolina bar-b-que. We were having dinner with two scientist friends of ours, and the subject naturally gravitated to the new middle school science projects we’re doing. They had the wonderful idea of doing, and a quote, “an ag project”. Ag of course, means ‘agricultural’; both friends work in agricultural chemistry.

I then had to admit about how my science project about plants had not gone well. So they came up with the idea to do a project about the soil texture analysis. What a cool subject – one that is literally an earth science project! I had never heard of soil texture analysis, but am now immersed into it.

In fact, I’m so immersed that it’s under my fingernails…

PS Stay tuned. The Middle School Science Project guides are two days from being completed! If you absolutely cannot wait for an earth science project, grab one of these Science Projects!