Multimedia, CD-ROM, Videos, Audio-Visual Aids
Soils information or teaching aids on CD-ROM, video, or other audio-visual
formats is difficult to locate. Here is a guide to materials we found.
We were able to preview only a few of these.
Slide Sets
Videos
- Alive and
Well: Sustainable Soil Management - 35 minute video by University
of California's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
- How Water
Moves Through Soil - 30 minute video by University of Arizona's
Educational Communications and
Technologies in the College of Agriculture
- The
Living Soil a 9 minute video by CSIRO
- Moving Toward Sustainability: Soil Management - 27 minute video
by Iowa
State University Extension illustrates farm management practices
that can improve sustainability
- Problems of Conservation: Soil - 14 minute video, demonstrates
techniques to combat soil erosion. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
- Soil: A Natural Habitat - 17 minute video, discusses
chemical and mineral components of soil and how to make soil healthier.
Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
- Soil: From the Beginning - 11 minute video, discusses the origins
of soil, its composition, and its importance to all living things. Available
from AGC Educational Media
- Soil: Preserving a Natural Resource, 13 minute video, illustrates
dangers to soil by chemicals, rubbish, acid rain, and erosion. Produced
by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
- Soil Testing for Nitrogen: Taking the Guesswork Out of Farming
- 16 minute video, by Iowa
State University Extension Video Department
- Soil, Who Needs It? - 14 minutes, is a good video for children
between the ages of 5 and 10. In language and images they will understand,
it shows the complexity and fragility of soil, and it illustrates what
can be done to conserve the soil. And Soils of the Desert Project:
A Video Presentation Offslide Set III - 34 minute, video illustrates
some of the findings of the southern New Mexico Soil-Geomorphology Project.
Both by the Department
of Agricultural Communications of New Mexico State University (At
the bottom of that page there's a search box for videos. Search on soil
in the title and you will get several items, these two among them.)
- Using a Cherokee County Soil Survey - 18 minute video by Kansas
State University
- Vegetation and Soil - 15 minute video explains the close relationships
between climate, soil, vegetation and humans, using North American regions
for examples. Available from AGC Educational Media
CD-ROM
Distributors of Educational Videos and CD-ROMs
- AGC Educational
Media, formerly Altschul Group Corporation, provides an extensive
list of educational videos, several of interest to soil scientists.
The home page offers a link from the TV image for "Educational
Videos" to a search page which allows searching by keyword. A link
to the search page is also under the large graphic at "edu
videos."
- Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. has produced a few
videos on soils for students between the ages of 12 and 18. For more
information, contact:
Annette M. Budzisz
International Marketing Coordinator, Audio Visual Media
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
310 South Michigan Avenue, 8th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60604 USA
Tel: (312) 347 7900 x 6455
Fax: (312) 294 2138
E-mail: abudzisz@eb.com
- Updata Publications provides
a thorough catalog of CD-ROMs available with a search window on their
home page.
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