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    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
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    Unit 3: Natural and Agricultural Erosion Rates part of A Growing Concern
    Sarah Fortner, Carleton College; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
    Students will identify their perceptions of erosion by examining images of mountain and agricultural landscapes and discussing which environment is more erosive. They will use geospatial figures to compare erosion ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share, Activities:Problem Set, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Course Module
    Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    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
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    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