Soil

Unit Question: What range of roles does soil play into a functioning society? 

Skills: Collect data to make claims about a design you invented.

1. 1. What do you eat? - Oct 7

   2. Web Soil Survey - Oct 8

   3. Soil Textures Infiltration Lab - Oct 9

   4. Soil Design Experiment (takes a couple weeks to run) - water and observe M, W, Fri - Oct 12

   5. ClORPT notes and Soil Formations Comparisons (land type to carbon capture and climate change) - Oct 13

Carbon Storage - https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/solutions-series-capturing-carbon-in-soil-2022 (clear and organized website)

Graphic analysis - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/visualizing-carbon-storage-in-earths-ecosystems/ 

Look up Carbon Farm - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397779644_Carbon_Farm_A_Soil_Carbon_Sequestration_Game_for_Outreach_and_Education_in_Climate-Smart_Agriculture 

1. 6. Weathering and erosion notes and Skittles erosion demo - Oct 14

   7. Weathering and erosion animation project - Oct 15 and 19

   8. Soil Profiles notes

   9. Soil Degradation and the dust bowl 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wYyAgthjQ1QMzSDC3yHjXUbt5VlyPyUoSufPbmZsxsY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gjdgxs  

1. 10. Soil Conservation jigsaw - Solutions approach to soil degradation issues. 

   11. Test