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An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.Inventory of data at ESDAC (last update: 10/12/2015) - Number of Datasets: 52
Find below the list of Educational Material currently available at the European Soil Data Center (ESDAC). Some of them are freely available for download while other are restricted due to copyright rules. This list provides the Dataset Title, a Short Description and Target Audience, Publisher. Each Title is linked to the full dataset description. This list represents the current state of affairs and is by no means final in length and contents. The list will be adapted as new data will be generated or current data will be updated. In case you pocess EDUCATIONAL Material related to SOIL Awareness, you are welcome to contact ec-esdac@ec.europa.eu.
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AllversityAllversity is a platform build to help people acquire vital skills and understandings that have a positive social and economic impact on their lives and communities. Allversity hosts a broad range of subjects, but focuses on health, rights and society, and livelihoods. Under this last category they host a simple online course about soil aimed at agriculturalists and the general public.
Target Audience: School, General public
Publisher: Allversity
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Soil of the Year 2013 – Plaggic AnthrosolThis was the background for members of the German Soil Science Society and the Federal Soil Association of Germany to initiate the action "Soil of the year" in 2004.
The Plaggic Anthrosol (Plaggenesch) has been selected as Germany’s “Soil of the Year 2013”. The German name Plaggenesch combines the terms “Plaggen” and “Esch”. “Plaggen”, or sods, are flat blocks of soil material with its above herbal or shrub or grassy vegetation and felted roots, shallowly scraped with a hoe or
a spade
Target Audience: School, Scientists, General Public
Publisher: ZALF, Germany
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Suolo Bene Comune: dalla Convenzione Europea del Paesaggio al governo sostenibile del territorio (Soil as a common good: from the European Landscape Convention to the sustainable territorial governance)The overall goal of this manual is to raise awareness among young people, communities, associations and local governments about the value of the soil as a common good and non-renewable resource.
Target Audience: Teachers, students, environmental associations, general public
Publisher: Legambiente Lombardia
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Soil of the Year 2012 – Lowland Peat SoilThis was the background for members of the German Soil Science Society and the Federal Soil Association of Germany to initiate the action "Soil of the year" in 2004.
Soil of the Year 2012 – Lowland Peat Soil.
Soil of the Year 2011: Vega –Fluvic Cambisol or Fluvisol.
Soil of the year 2010 are Urbic Anthrosols/ Technosols.
Soil of the year 2009 is the Calcareous Marsh.
Soil of the year 2008 is the Cambisol/ Arenosol.
Soil of the year 2007 was the Podzol.
Soil of the year 2006 was the Albic Luvisol.
Soil of the year 2005 was the Chernozem.
Target Audience: School, Scientists, General Public
Publisher: ZALF, Germany
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Soil Formation and Parent MaterialThis website illustrates processes of soil parent material and landscape development. Video footage was obtained in the Rocky Mountains and southern interior of British Columbia to enable students to visualize similar processes that occurred in the past. The website also allows for an exploration of impacts of climate change on glacier retreats.
Target Audience: Upper level undergraduate and graduate students in natural resource sciences
Publisher: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada; Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada; and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada
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Virtual Soil Monolith Collection at UBCThis web-based teaching tool showcases the soil monolith collection stored at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada by providing learning community with an overview of this unique collection of 197 display models assembled over the past 4 decades.
This web-based teaching tool showcases the soil monolith collection stored at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada by providing learning community with an overview of this unique collection of 197 display models assembled over the past 4 decades. The tool enhances teaching and learning by (1) integrating traditional soil science resources (monoliths) into undergraduate and graduate teaching, (2) increasing learner accessibility, and (3) offering interactive student learning activities.
Target Audience: Upper level undergraduate students in natural resource sciences
Publisher: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada
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Virtual Soil Lab ModulesThis web-based teaching tool consists of 6 lab modules on plant nutrients, soil salinity, trace elements, soil respiration, soil water and soil compaction. The modules complement the courses on soil laboratory analysis and supplement learning for other courses where soil analysis is relevant. Each module provides a brief background for the topic, method options and considerations, from sampling through to interpretation of results, and video clips featuring various methods of lab analysis and soil sampling
Target Audience: Upper level undergraduate and graduate students in natural resource sciences
Publisher: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada
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Les sols : pourquoi et comment les protégerComment se forme le sol ? Interactive web application on how soil is made.
Target Audience: Secondary Education and General public
Publisher: ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie)
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edAfos : El Suelo, Epidermis viva de la Tierra (The soil, Earth's living skin)Spanish e-learning resource on soil science. Edafos is a e-learning resource that provides a comprehensive review of the fundamental concepts and processes of soil science in Spanish. It is a multimedia- interactive program with different modules that after outlining the study of soil components goes on to examine the main factors and processes of soil genesis explaining the mechanisms of soil processes. A better understanding of all these new ideas is facilitated by the use of animations, which can illustrate the processes in a more effective manner than static print media. The program ends with the possibility of self-assessment questions obtaining an automatic punctuation. It can be useful from Secondary Education on Natural Sciences to degrees on Agricultural or Environmental Engineering. This interactive program for knowledge of soil is also available in English
Target Audience: Secondary Education on Natural Sciences
Publisher: University of Zaragosa (Spain)
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International Summer School Environmental and Resource ManagementThis summer school is a joint initiative of different universities. It brings together students and academic staff from partner institutions in the beautiful city of Ljubljana to study and discuss environmental issues in an interactive and intensive way. Organised by Biotechnical Faculty and Council for Environmental Protection of the Republic of Slovenia (CEPRS), Cranfield University (United Kingdom), Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF (Germany), BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, (Slovenia), University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life Science Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning (DK)
Target Audience: Students (university)
Publisher: Biotechnical Faculty and Council for Environmental Protection of the Republic of Slovenia (CEPRS)
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