Soil management

Discover 7 ways satellite Earth observation helps fight climate change.

Learn about the plants and animals in Canada’s marine coastal habitats, and what you can do to protect them.

List of hand-on activities connected to plants

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.

Explore how walking on soil changes how water soaks into the ground and why that matters to gardeners and farmers.

You can make your own terrarium for growing plants!

In this hands on activity build a wheelbarrow from simple materials to explore just how useful simple machines can be!

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

5 images of some work that farmers do such as feeding cows, planting fields and harvesting grain

5 images of some work that horticulturalists might do such as cultivating and caring for plants in various environments

5 images of some work that landscapers might do such as planning, planting and maintaining gardens