Association for Biology Laboratory Education

The Dirt Lab: An Open-Ended Investigation Into An Environmental Problem
 

Charlene M. Waggoner, Dan Wiegmann, and Julia McArthur

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1999, Volume 20

Abstract

This laboratory exercise poses a realistic environmental problem with multiple solutions. In seeking to address this problem, students recognize a need to know and therefore learn about soils, techniques for evaluating soils, and how soil composition can affect living systems.

Keywords:  Soil Biology, soil testing, soil sampling

Florida State University (1998)