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Soil Quality Assessment and Applications for Field Staff Training

Lesson 2 - Soil Change, Soil Survey, Assessment, and Monitoring

Participants: Reference Material: Instructors:
2 Student Guide 2.1 Soil Change Glossary of Terms

2 Lesson Outline
2.1 Soil Change and Soil Quality (ppt handouts) 2.1 Soil Change Reference List 2 Student Guide for Instructors
2.2 Soil Change Measurement (ppt handouts) 2.2 Rangeland Soil Quality Information Sheet #1 2.1 Lesson Plan - Soil Change and Soil Quality 
2.3 Soil Change Puzzle Questions 2.2 Rangeland Soil Quality Information Sheet #2 2.1 Soil Change and Soil Quality PowerPoint
2.4 Soil Resilience (ppt handouts) 2.2 Guidelines for Soil Quality Assessment in Conservation Planning 2.1 Soil Change and Soil Quality (ppt notes pages)
2.5 State and Transition Models (ppt handouts) 2.4 Global Map of Major Land Resource Limitations

2.2 Lesson Plan - Soil Change Measurement
    2.2 Soil Change Measurement PowerPoint
    2.2 Soil Change Measurement (ppt notes pages)
   

2.3 Lesson Plan - Soil Change Puzzle
    2.3 Soil Change Puzzle Answer Sheet*
    2.3 Soil Change Puzzle Poster
    2.3 Soil Change Puzzle Poster with Answers
   

2.4 Lesson Plan - Soil Resilience
    2.4 Soil Resilience PowerPoint
    2.4 Soil Resilience (ppt notes pages)
   

2.5 Lesson Plan - State and Transition Models
    2.5 State and Transition Models PowerPoint
    2.5 State and Transition Models (ppt notes pages)
    * in addition to printing the puzzle answer sheet for the instructor notebook, provide a sufficient number of copies separately so the instructor can provide the answer sheet to each participant as handout at the end of the activity
    Alternative Presentations:
   

2.1 PowerPoint (Ferguson)
2.2 PowerPoint (Ferguson)
2.4 PowerPoint (Ferguson)
Sampling PowerPoint (Ferguson)

Participant documents zip

Instructor documents zip