Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Growing Lima Beans: Do We Really Need Dirt?
Students investigate different growth mediums for a lima bean seed: a wet paper towel and a paper cup with soil.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Real Dirt on Farmer John: Family Farms in America
Trace the evolution in American agriculture with this interactive timeline. Learn how the history of one small Illinois farm reflects the larger changes, decade by decade.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Let's Ride!
See what is involved with dirt-bike riding. Includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science of Gardening
Explore this site to get the "dirt" on dirt. Explore a savage garden or choose from the various aspects of gardening: feed, control or bloom.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Digging Up Dirt: How Paleontologists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life
Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...
Arcademics
Arcademics: Dirt Bike Proportions
This online multi-player race game allows students to practice solving proportions by finding the missing piece. The players they play against are within the computer, not necessarily their own classroom.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Lorna Dee Cervantes
Brief biography & photo of the poet & co-editor of Red Dirt, a cross-cultural poetry journal, Lorna Dee Cervantes. It also provides a link to her poem "Freeway 280."
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Dissecting Soil
In this soil study, learners investigate a soil sample to discover what is inside the soil. Working in partners, they explore to see if there are any plants, animals, dirt, or other (water and air) in the soil.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Dirt Bike Proportions
Find the number which makes the fractions equal in this multiplayer race!
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clippix Etc: Black Vulture on Dirt Track
Black Vulture on Dirt Track
Other
Pipeline: Soil Characteristics Demystifying Dirt [Pdf]
Soil is the foundation of conventional on site wastewater treatment.The drainfields used with on site systems work because the soil around the trenches acts as a filter and removes organic matter, some of the nutrients present in...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Straining Out the Dirt
In this activity, students build a water filter with activated carbon, cotton and other materials to remove chocolate powder from water.
Math Playground
Dirt Bike Proportions: Race by Finding Equivalent Ratios.
Proportions where students determine the missing number to make the proportion true.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Equal Proportions: Dirt Bike Proportions
Start your engines! This racing game will speed up your math skills by challenging players to find equivalent fractions. The faster you solve the problems the faster the bike goes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Where Is the Dirt? A Lesson in Hydroponics
This lesson plan will be developed around hydroponic gardening, the growing of plants without soil. Using the Internet, students will research hydroponics and share their knowledge with the class. A classroom hydroponic garden will be...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Let's Get Dirty
In a very hands-on activity, students observe and feel the differences between two cleaning methods, with and without hand soap, using coffee grounds to represent "dirt."Most of the dirt and bacteria on our hands is encased in a thin...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?
Students conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic bags filled with...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Dirty Decomposers
Young scholars design and conduct experiments to determine what environmental factors favor decomposition by soil microbes. They use chunks of carrots for the materials to be decomposed, and their experiments are carried out in plastic...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Get Down and Dirty: How Does Soil Change With Depth?
What covers less than 10% of the Earth's surface, yet is a vital natural resource for terrestrial life? What filters ground water and supports most of our food production, not to mention the production of building materials and paper?...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Soil Compaction
Have you ever had to dig a hole in really hard dirt? It is a lot of work. In this experiment you can make an instrument to test the soil and find out how compacted it is, before you dig.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A Little Brick Plant in the Middle of Nowhere
The Claybank Brick Plant is in the Dirt Hills of south-central Saskatchewan and the only complete example of such a plant in North America. Its equipment and structures are intact and functional, preserved as they would have been in the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Is Soil?
Have you ever played in dirt from your yard? You were actually playing with one of the most important natural resources on earth - soil. Watch a short video on soil and a second video showing the phases of plant development using...
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