These activities provide a focused learning experience for school groups visiting Dig It!. Each activity is printable and stand-alone and will help students to dig deeper into the exhibit, discover how much fun soils can be, and learn how to become soil conservationists!:

• Cooking up Soils
• You Can Make a Difference
• Reading Your State Soil
• What’s the Big Deal about Soils?
• Exhibition Guide and Floorplan

In the Humanity Against Hunger web module, students become volunteers to help solve the severe food shortage faced in Africa. Through the interactive experience, students learn how nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous deficiencies can stunt plant growth in different ways. They also learn how replenishing the land with fertilizer can help farmers achieve higher yields of crops to feed more.

This program brings facts about plant nutrients (N, P and K) to life through a series of advanced interactive activities and a game show. Ideal for science classes grades 5 - 8, the program keeps students' attention with fast-paced movement and easy-to-understand material.

If students think soil science is boring, they should try this! The program contains three online games, lessons and facts to teach your students, grades K through 5, the importance of N, P and K. Best of all, the fun, comic format is guaranteed to capture both their attention and imagination.

These lesson plans were designed to help teachers during tours of the temporary exhibition Listening to the Prairie. They address the prairie ecosystem, but could be applied to the study of any natural ecosystem. There are approximately 7-8 lesson plans for each grade level, PreK-1, 2-5, 6-8, 9-12.