Education

Resource Conservation Kit for Educators

The focus of this page is to describe how to build and use a kit that contains about 20 visual aids for teaching soils.


Read Me First - A Guide to the Resource Conservation Kit for Educators

Includes - Index - Short Narratives - Links to Illustrations - Background Material(197 KB)  

What is Soil Made Of? (464 KB)  


Soil compaction (1.9 MB)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 Runoff and infiltration combined in one demonstration

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

No-till has better infiltration and less runoff than conventional till. (458 KB)

Conventionally tilled soils have more runoff and less infiltration of water  (11.5 MB)

Ninteen second movie conventional tillage undisturbed soil (176 KB)

                                                          Filtration experiments

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

 

 
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

Read about it here