Use this interactive website to learn everything you wanted to know about the four components of soil: minerals, organic, water, and air. Many links along the way assist with comprehension by allowing you to view photographs, charts, and...

This interactive website explores the various soil layers and introduces you to the lifeforms that live in those soil layers.

Seven hands-on lessons module allows students to learn about soils. These inquiry-based investigations explore the kinds and arrangements of materials in soils, the amount of water that flows through soil, and how soil is eroded.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the characteristics and types of soil.

This Pedrosphere site provides a twelve chapter overview of soil science. Numerous topics are discussed and each chapter has a self-test to test your knowledge on the different aspects of soil science. Some chapters are only previews.

This comprehensive site explores a number of soil related topics. A glossary of soil terms, formation of soils, and classification of soils are just of a few of the topics found on this this.

Test your knowledge of different types of rocks by taking a quiz. Determine if each picture shows an igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock.

This program uses a scenario with fictional detective characters to present plant growth to students. While the unit focuses on the basic needs and parts of plants, the topics of plant classification and adaptations, soil formation and...