HR: 1330h
AN: ED22C-1245    [PDF]
TI: The GLOBE Soil Protocol: Teaching the Importance of Soils in the Earth System
AU: * Levine, E
EM: elissa.levine@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheic Sciences Branch/Code 923, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Robin, J
EM: jrobin@pop900.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheic Sciences Branch/Code 923, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: Protocols being introduced in the GLOBE Soil Investigation have been challenging for teachers and students to implement in the classroom for a number of reasons. Soil Science has not traditionally been taught as part of the curriculum in most parts of the world, and thus, concepts related to soil science and its important role in the Earth system are often unfamiliar and difficult for teachers to understand or explain. In addition, data collection requires exposing, describing, and sampling a soil profile which may require resources not easily available to most teachers. In order to facilitate the GLOBE soil protocol to be understood and performed, a number of resources and activities have been introduced. These include the development of inexpensive educational materials to assist with learning skills and concepts, and the introduction of a modeling tool in which students use GLOBE data and apply different scenarios to produce inquiry based results that identify important linkages and feedbacks within the Earth system. These materials and model have been used in GLOBE schools worldwide, and have been shown to be an effective way to teach both the concepts and the methods required to understand the important role of the soil.
DE: 1866 Soil moisture
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting