This kit is a teaching tool to enhance students' understanding and engagement with the world of soils. It begins with the invitation to delve into the story of soil, its central role in sustaining life on earth, and our part to help care for it. Subsequent hands-on activities focus on what soils are made of, the diversity of life soils contain, how soils interact with water, their productive capacity to grow food, as well as an exploration of the root zone and why it is important to protect soils from erosion.

Be sure to download the companion slideshows "The Earth on Turtle's Back", "Farming with Friends", and "Guardians of the Soil", and save the link to the "Guardians of the Soil" video.

Not available for homeschools.

An experiment involving earthworms and compost designed to help students understand the role plant and animal matter plays in eco-systems. Developed by Agriculture Education, Prince Edward Island.

This project is a simple demonstration that plants release water vapour through their leaves. Transpiration is the movement of water through a plant's system. Transpiration helps to cool the plant and the Earth; works together with respiration; and keeps plants upright. 

This is a publicly available resource developed by the Little Green Thumbs program, a classroom gardening program. Learn more about the Little Green Thumbs program in your region.

With Saskatchewan farmers exporting more mustard than anywhere else on earth, it is important for students to understand how valuable mustard is to our province. These worksheets teach students about the parts of a mustard plant, the needs of a mustard plant, and stages of growing a mustard plant.

The legend of how the Earth began is put together with beautiful illustrations by Saskatchewan artist, Leah Dorian. Read this story with your children and discuss how we depend on the land and how we can take care of it.

How can today's food system meet the growing global demand to produce more food using fewer resources? This video incorporates the 'Earth as an apple' model to highlight the amount of soil available and looks at the amount of freshwater available. At the same time, it highlights the increasing need for food due to an increasing global population.