Technical Soil Services - Education

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• Soils site for Educational Tools and Products
  • Soils Education Site
     
• Lesson Plans and experiments for the classroom
• MO14
   
• NASA site for soils educational materials
• NASA educational website
   
• Educational Resources
• "From the Surface Down" An Introduction to Soil Surveys for Agronomic Use (PDF; 1.3 MB)
• S.K. Worm
   
• Soil Survey Fact Sheet
• MO15 (PDF; 317 KB)
   
• For young children
• Activity Book (PDF; 424 KB)
• Coloring Book (PDF; 482 KB)
   
• Teacher's Guide
• MO15 (PDF; 245 KB)
   
• Soil Tunnels
• Maryland
• New Hampshire
   
• What is Soil?
• Facts about soil
   
• Careers in Soil Survey
• Career information and opportunities
   
• 3-day course designed to introduce employees who are not soil scientists to basic soil properties, interpretations, and the soil mapping process.
• Missouri website
   
• Functions of a healthy soil
• Diagram from New Hampshire
   
• What is a Soil Survey?
• Tennessee