Soil Matters: Soil & Minerals

Soil
Cover Crops - a list of cover crops and their uses by Cornell University
Soil 4 Kids

Videos
Dirt, the Movie
Surviving the Dust Bowl - PBS, the American Experience
Bio da Versity Code video
Whoosh & Breaker Super Heroes - video on weathering and erosion (hosted on YouTube)
A Culture of Conservation: Don't Call it Dirt - A Passion for Soil - 8 min. video  by Iowa Conservation District
Soil Stories - a nice 30 minute video about soils
Permaculture Principle 1: Observe and Interact - Formidable Vegetables music video about dirt, includes soil test

Video Notes

• Minerals: Luster streak, hardness - flipped - 2 videos on Moodle
• Mining & Uses of Minerals
  Focus Questions:
  • How are minerals used?
  • What is an ore? Smelting?
  • What are the different types of mining? What are some of the concerns of mining?
• Ecosystems Flipped
• Soil Food Web Flipped
• Soil Conservation Flipped
  
  

Labs
Minilab: Mineral Properties
Lab: Mineral Identification
Lab: Soil Testing

Projects
Soil PSA Project

Songs
Inch by Inch Soil Song

Review Material for Test
Minerals and their properties video