This SSSA video provides an overview of soils as the upper part of land surface and created from weathered rocks. It also points to the ecosystem services provide by soil.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
3-5
6-8
PreK-2
Lesson Area
Soil Basics
Lesson Type
Video
Lesson Keywords
Ecosystem Services
Weathered Rock
Soil Formation
Soil Basics

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
3-5 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
6-8 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth's systems, including the sun and Earth's interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
PreK-2 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Wind and water change the shape of the land.