Teaching Activities

Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.

Skip to search results Skip to search facet filtersSkip to text search formSkip to pagination
Refine the Results↓

Grade Level

Online Readiness

    Resource Type: Activities Show all

    Subject Show all

    Activity Review Show all

    Project Show all



    Current Search Limits:
    Resource Type: Activities
    Activities > Problem Set
    Subject
    Environmental Science > Soils and Agriculture
    Activity Review
    Passed Peer Review

    Results 1 - 3 of 3 matches

    Unit 4: Using SoilWebTMto Investigate the Soil Beneath You part of A Growing Concern
    Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
    Students will use SoilWeb™, a smartphone and web application that pulls detailed soil survey data from both the 1:24,0000 Soil Survey Geographic database (SSURGO) and the 1:250,000 scale State Soil Geographic ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Problem Set, Datasets and Tools:Tools, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
    Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    InTeGrate Developed This material was developed and reviewed through the InTeGrate curricular materials development process.
    Learn more about this review process.

    Unit 5: Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Soil Loss part of A Growing Concern
    Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
    Students will investigate how the factors that influence erosion work together to produce an overall erosion rate. In agricultural areas, these factors are rainfall-runoff erosivity, soil erodibility, slope ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    InTeGrate Developed This material was developed and reviewed through the InTeGrate curricular materials development process.
    Learn more about this review process.
    CLEAN Selected This activity has been selected for inclusion in the CLEAN collection.
    Learn more about this review process.

    Soil analysis for the community garden part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
    Kevin Svitana, Otterbein College
    Kevin Svitana, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH Summary Otterbein is in the process of developing a community garden on its newly opened Equestrian Science facility. This facility was a former industrial ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils:Chemistry and Mineralogy, Soil Maps
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review