Soil salinity-Activities

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Activities \| Monitoring the white death – soil salinity

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)
- 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.

This topic is sponsored by the Land Monitor Project and the Australian Government's National Innovation Awareness Strategy.