International Year of Soils Activities

For Members: Why is Soil Important? (PPTX) | Basic Soil Process (PPT) | What is Soil? Activity (PDF)

For Educators: Know Your State Soil! (PPTX) | Soil Ecosystems Services Jeopardy Game | Soils are Everywhere! Activity (PDF) | What is in Soil? Activity (PDF) | Basic Soil Processes (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): The Soil Orders Simplified

For Educators: How Much Water Comes From the Sky? Activity (PDF) | Making Soil Activity (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): How Do Rain Gardens Help With Storm Water? | Do Rain Gardens Save Cities Money?

For Members: Soils Provide for Civilizations (PPTX)

For Educators: The World as an Apple Activity (PDF) | World Food Supply (PPTX) | Soils, Food, and Health Activities | Seed Survivor | Little Green Thumbs

For Everyone (Blogs): What is Precision Agriculture? | Why Do Farmers Use Fertilizer?

For Members: Runoff Activity (PDF) | Degraded Soils Presentation (PPT)

For Educators: Soil Pore Size Affects Water Infiltration Activity (PDF) | Degraded Water Reuse Activity (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): Why Retention Basins and Rain Gardens? | Green Water/BlueWater Explained- Growing Food With Climate Change

For Members: Soils Support Buildings and Infrastructure (PPTX) (High School and Adults)

For Educators: Soils Support Buildings and Infrastructure (PPTX) (Elementary) | Life on the Land (PDF) | NSTA Dig In! Book

For Everyone (Blogs): Soils and Building Foundations | Soils and Mudslides

For Members: Water in Forests Activity (PDF) | Good Sports Need Good Soils (PPTX) | Outdoor Soil Facts and Discussion (PDF)

For Educators: Got Clean Lakes? (PDF) | Soil Compaction and Its Effects (PDF) | Fore! Soil and Golf (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): Sports and Soils | Stay on the Trails!

For Members: Examine a Soil Sample Activity (PDF)

For Educators: Examine a Soil Sample Activity (PDF) | Making Compost Activity (PDF) | The Microbe Zoo and Dirtland Game (PDF) | Soil Safari Game (PDF) | Root Nematode Game (PDF) | Soil Food Web Game (PDF) | Animal Apartments (PDF) | Living Links (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): What Types of Animals Live in the Soil? | Is it True Bacteria Live in Soil?

For Members: When Soil Won the Nobel Prize

For Educators: Unlocking the Potential of Soil Microbes (PDF) | When Soil Won the Nobel Prize (PPTX) | Plant Biotech Activity (PDF) | Soil Health Scavenger Hunt (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): How Does Soil Affect My Health? | Medicines Come From Soil?

For Educators: Soils Sustain Life in Terrestrial Biomes (PDF) | Make a Soil Profile with the Minecraft Game (PDF) | Leaves Insulate the Soil Activity (PDF) | Soil Types and Regions Activity | Tundra Soils Activity | Desert Soils Activity | Forest Soils Activity | Tropical Soils Activity | Wetland Soils Activity | Lofty, Level, and Lumpy (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): How Does Soil Differ Across Earth's Biomes? | How Does Soil Differ Across Earth's Biomes? Part Two

For Educators: Farm to Table (PDF) | Soil Connections to Products We Use (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): What Is "Farm to Table" and Why Is It Important? | How Are Artwork and Pottery Created With Soil?

For Members: Vermicomposting Activity (PDF) | Black Blizzard: Dust Bowl Activity (PDF)

For Educators: Playing the Farming Game (Greenhouse Gasses) (PDF) | UNESCO Desertification Activity | Going, Going, Gone? (PDF) | Tea4Science Climate Change Activity

For Everyone (Blogs): Soils & Climate: Desertification | How Can Soils Help With Climate Change

For Members: Make Soil Crayons (PDF) | Soils Forensics Activity (PDF) | Mud Mask Activity (PDF)

For Educators: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Activity (PDF) | Make Soil Crayons (PDF) | Mud Mask Activity (PDF) | Paint with Soil! Activity (PDF)

For Everyone (Blogs): What is Soil Forensics? | How Are Soils Used In Cosmetics?