[MCN] Grad students take soil science to primary schoolkids

[Lance Olsen]

Integrating Soil Science into Primary School 
Curricula: Students Promote Soil Science 
Education with Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
Andrew J. Margenot, Katelin Alldritt, Susan Southard and Anthony O'Geen
Soil Science Society of America Journal
doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.03.0056
Published: July 7, 2016

https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/0/0/sssaj2016.03.0056

Principles of soil science are highly 
complementary with subjects required by state and 
national standards and offer an opportunity to 
integrate science, technology, engineering, and 
math (STEM) education and non-STEM subjects, such 
as history and anthropology. However, soil 
science is often absent from primary education 
curricula. This is a missed opportunity for both 
primary education and the soil science community. 
We integrated soil science into primary education 
using the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) 
traveling soil science exhibit Dig It! The 
Secrets of Soil. (continued)

Core Ideas:
-There is a need to incorporate soil science into primary education.
-A partnership brought soil science to Grades 2-7 
in the Sacramento-Davis area of California.
-Graduate students used the Dig It! soils exhibit 
to engage primary school students.
-Curricula standards are a potential constraint 
and entry point for soil science.
-- 
=====================================================================
  "The outlines of the carbon cycle, in organisms 
at any rate, have been evident since Joseph 
Priestley's day."

Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles.
Scientific American, September 1970





-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://bigskynet.org/pipermail/missoula-community-news_bigskynet.org/attachments/20160713/a35f6166/attachment-0002.html>