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  • What Do You Know About Soil?

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  • What Do You Know About Soil?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about soil. Soil is the material that is useful to plants and animals, including people. Its formation is a slow process but continuous and still…

  • Get the Scoop on Soil Microbes

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  • The Color of Soil: Exploring the chemistry of soil color

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    Soil color is a study of various chemical processes acting on soil. These processes include the weathering of geologic materials, the chemistry of oxidation-reduction actions upon various minerals of soil, and the…

  • What’s in Our Soil?

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    A university-nonprofit-school partnership aims to raise environmental awareness.

  • Soil, Weeds, and Computers

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    After a 2001 wildfire in the state of Wyoming, scientists were interested in learning what hydrophobic layers existed in the heavily burned areas and at what depth. In a collaborative, inquiry-based project, high school…

  • Creative Soil Conservation

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    Take plant lessons outdoors with this engaging and inquiry-based activity in which third-grade students learn how to apply soil conservation methods to growing plants. They also collect data and draw conclusions about…

  • Having pHun With Soils

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    Test the pH of soil to explore its impact on an ecosystem.

  • Is Your Soil Sick?

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    Students explore a new kind of testing—of soil—and learn about plant needs and how to analyze results.

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