Free teaching materials about soil
With this teaching package, you introduce your pupils to the fascinating world beneath the ground. Why is healthy soil so important, and who lives in the soil? You will work on a variety of activities and bring soil life literally into the classroom by creating a ‘soil life observation box’ together with your pupils. The teaching materials can be requested for free here.
Searching for soil animals
Join the search for woodlice, earthworms, and other small animals. You can do this in your own garden, but also on your balcony, in the schoolyard, in a park, or in your office garden. What are moles, worms, and spiders all getting up to in and on the ground? With this free IVN Soil Animals Activity Book, you can get to the bottom of it all! Make your own insect aspirator, build a compost factory, and learn all about these useful little creatures.
Would you like to learn more about soil as a teacher?
Would you like to learn more about soil life yourself, before or after teaching the lesson? Join an online safari beneath the ground and discover in one hour everything that grows, crawls, and wriggles there, and what this contributes to. In a free educational e-learning course, ‘Under the Surface’, you will learn how to investigate the health of the soil in your garden and how to help life in the soil.
Soil research
Curious about the condition of the soil in your (school) garden? With the free Garden Soil Check, you can get to the bottom of the quality of the soil life. You will receive a toolkit containing everything you need: a ruler, a magnifying glass, a soil animal chart, a score sheet, and cress seeds. The accompanying free educational e-learning course contains videos explaining step by step how to carry out the experiments.