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Description: This website offers a virtual training for Envirothon coaches covering soils. Provides powerpoints with notes. Also includes information on aquatics, forestry, and wildlife sections of the Envirothon. Powerpoint topics include classification of soils, redoximorphic features and hydric soils, soil consistence, capability classes (slope), erosion, and best management practices (and more).
Grade Levels: 9-12
Keywords: envirothon, classification, redoximorphic, consistence, training
Lesson Area: Soil Basics, Soil Chemistry, Soil Mineralogy, Soil Conservation
Resource Type: Activity, Slides/Photos/Figures, Teacher's Guide
Next Generation Science Standards
| Grade | Discipline | Core Idea |
|---|---|---|
| 9-12 | ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems | Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems. |
| 9-12 | PS1.B: Chemical reactions | Chemical processes are understood in terms of collisions of molecules, rearrangement of atoms, and changes in energy as determined by properties of elements involved. |
| 9-12 | PS2.C: Stability & instability in physical systems | N/A |