The purpose of this activity is for students to create a desktop soil profile based on the biome region of the United States where your school is located.

Explore and connect to pedosphere protocols in GLOBE. Each protocol correlates to related datasets from the Earth System Data Explorer.

Explore and connect to the GLOBE Soils protocol bundle. 

Explore and connect to the GLOBE Urban protocol bundle. 

GLOBE protocols and learning activities that complement the Soil Moisture phenomenon through hands-on investigations are detailed. 

In this activity, students investigate three different soil samples with varying moisture content. They use a soil moisture probe to determine the percentage (by volume) of water in each of the soil samples.

Students collect and analyze temperature data to explore what governs how much energy is reflected.