Lesson Plans and Other Educational Materials

 The focus of this web page is to provide educators with some hands-on materials and descriptions of how to use those materials. The goal of this page is to demonstrate some ways that educational materials can be packaged for distribution to educators.

Documents require Adobe Acrobat , Microsoft Powerpoint , or Microsoft Word .
See http://soils.usda.gov for more material.

  1.  Packaged as a Lesson Plan

    "4th Grade Lesson Plan" by Sylvia Hottell, SWCD, Floyd County, Indiana - See individual materials referenced for credits. (216 KB)

     
  2.  Packaged in a Kit

  3. Resource Conservation Kit for Educators (197 KB)  

 Contents of the Kit

 

    3.    Packaged on a CD with a Game for younger students

 

  1. Packaged on a CD with multiple educational levels  K - Adult

     Contents - Example of combining materials from several sources on one CD

     

     

  2. Packaged as  Educational Content Standards linked to Reference Materials

    Selected South Dakota Science Content Standards


  3. Packaged with grade specific content linked to a list


  4. Provided in multiple languages "Japanese and English Powerpoints"

    Revised 1st Powerpoint - Powerpoint for the Fullbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program (14.5 MB)

    Revised 1st Powerpoint Translated to Japanese - Powerpoint for the Fullbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program (19.3 MB)

    Revised 2nd Powerpoint - Powerpoint for the Fullbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program (13.8 MB)

    Revised 2nd Powerpoint Translated to Japanese - Powerpoint for the Fullbright Memorial Fund Master Teacher Program (27.9 MB)


  5. Packaged in multiple formats (Posters/Movies/text descriptions)

     Comparison of runoff and infiltration using undisturbed samples from fields managed using no-till and conventional tillage systems (154 KB)

    Illustration of the mini lysimeters working (458 KB)

Powerpoint version so you can edit and change the background (11.5 MB)

Ninteen second movie clip-conventional tillage undisturbed soil (no-audio) (176 KB)

  1. Filtration experiments

How to demonstrate filtration using bottles and soil (200 KB)

 

  1. Miscellaneous "Stuff" that is found organized on other pages on this site

    Sample directions on how to use Web Soil Survey (35 KB)

 Web Soil Survey

What is Soil Made Of? (464 KB)  

Soil compaction (1.9 MB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 Educational Page

 Erosion and Sediment Control

4th Grade Lesson Plan (216 KB)

 

"The Scoop on Soil" - Interactive game

 

 

More Scoop on Soil

 Example of combining materials from several sources

Example of linking educational standards to materials (South Dakota)

Example of linking educational standards to materials (West Virginia)

Under good management minimal disturbance of the soil decreases fuel usage/ increases infiltration/decreases runoff/increases yields/decreases need for fertilizers/decreases the amount of annual weed seeds

Steps Toward a Successful Transition to No-Till