Essentials of Environmental Science: The Importance of Soil

Provided by: Hot Mess |Published on: April 27, 2021

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This video from Hot Mess is about how soil formation, different types of soil, human activity's effect on soil, and soil's role in addressing climate change.
Students will come away with an appreciation for soil and an understanding of its composition and importance for Earth's systems.

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Subjects: Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Space Sciences

Authors: Hot Mess, PBS

Region: Global

Languages: English

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It is broken into chapters at the bottom of the video, so teachers can skip around to the sections relevant to their lessons.
The images, diagrams, and charts help the viewer better understand potentially unfamiliar topics.

Prerequisites

Students should know what abiotic and biotic factors are.
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Differentiation & Implementation

Students can use the information in the video to analyze soil in their schools or homes.
Students in ELA classes can compare and contrast the terms soil and dirt, describing the different connotations of the words.
Other resources on this topic include Lab 5: Soil and the Carbon Cycle, NASA's Earth Minute: Dishing the Dirt, and Sunlight Stored in Soil (In the Greenhouse #7).

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