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).

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Soil Chemistry
Soil Conservation
Soil Mineralogy
Lesson Type
Activity
Slides/Photos/Figures
Teacher's Guide
Lesson Keywords
envirothon
classification
redoximorphic
consistence
training

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

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