Monitoring the white death – soil salinity

Activities

University of Adelaide (Australia)

Effect of salinity on beans

Determining soil texture

New South Wales Higher Education Certificate Online (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Caring for the country: Salinity of soils and water – provides resources and activities for this aspect of the Earth and Environmental Science syllabus.

Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development – SEED (Schlumberger Ltd, USA)

Experiment: The electrical resistivity of materials – students compare the electrical resistance of dry soil with soil that has been soaked with different liquids.

Newton's Apple (USA)

Infrared light

MicroWorlds (Berkeley Lab, USA)

Soil flushing activity

Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Remote sensing – students focus on the history of remote sensing which has changed the way we view and understand our world.

Hawaii Space Grant College (University of Hawaii)

Digital images – students simulate the processing of digital images into colour pictures then interpret the pictures they generate.

Describing soils – students use a series of tests to describe a soil sample.

Porosity – students measure the amount of water stored in the pore space of a soil sample.

Soil Science Education Home Page (Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)

Texture by feel

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Page updated November 2006.