Brianna Lummerding
Career Profiles
Agronomic Innovation Manager
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Joann Whalen
Career Profiles
Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
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Brianna Lummerding (Video)
Career Profiles
Agronomic Innovation Manager
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Healthy Soil
Lessons
Students will explore the composition and characteristics of different local soils and learn about what makes soil healthy.
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Caroline Richard
Geotechnical Engineer
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Soil on Mars
Backgrounders
Learn how soil is different on Mars than on Earth, and what that means for growing plants on the red planet.
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Experiment with plants!
STEM Explained
List of hand-on activities connected to plants
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The Dirt on Soil Conservation
STEM Explained
If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.
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What is Soil?
Backgrounders
Learn about soil, soil texture and the various layers of soil.
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What is soil made of?
Lessons
Students will explore the composition and characteristics of different local soils and learn about what makes soil healthy.
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What makes soil hard and compacted?
Hands-on Activities
Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.
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Careers: Soil Scientist
Picture Collections
5 images some work that a scientist who studies the Earth's soil might do such as classifying types of soil and measuring the slope of soil
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Careers: Farmer
Picture Collections
5 images of some work that farmers do such as feeding cows, planting fields and harvesting grain
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Careers: Horticulturalist
Picture Collections
5 images of some work that horticulturalists might do such as cultivating and caring for plants in various environments
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Careers: Landscaper
Picture Collections
5 images of some work that landscapers might do such as planning, planting and maintaining gardens