SSSA Outreach Activities

The broad scope of soil science provides SSSA with the opportunity to connect on many levels with many organizations. These opportunities include developing cooperative relationships, partnering on K-12 activities to reach out to teachers and students, taking a lead role in the International Year of Soils in 2015, and developing campaigns such as our I "Heart" Soils campaign. Take a look at what SSSA is doing to fulfill its mission of advancing soils as fundamental to life!

Soils for Teachers Website - www.soils4teachers.org

Our primary K-12 outreach site is dedicated to the needs of teachers/educators, providing ready resources for the classroom. Key components include a section on soil basics, soils by subject, soils and people, lessons/activities, and resources. The searchable lessons/activities (with assigned NGSS standards) section includes SSSA developed lessons and those from external sites that have been reviewed and vetted by soil scientists to ensure the science and methods are accurate. Resources include:

Posters
Materials from webinars and NSTA workshops
Ask a Soil Scientist
State Soil Booklets

Soils for Kids Website — www.soils4kids.org

The website dedicated to students, which describes soil basics, provides Fun with Soil games, suggestions for science-fair experiments, and opens their minds to careers in soil science. It also links to information about their state soils and is further sorted by grade levels.

International Year of Soils

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils - SSSA celebrated this historic year with an award-winning campaign! An extensive program of activities and videos - with monthly themes - for outreach was developed and can be viewed at www.soils.org/IYS.