What do water and wind do to open fields? An interesting video lesson demonstrates how ground cover protects the loss of soil from rain and wind. It shows four soil samples with varying degrees of ground cover and how people collect the water runoff for analysis from each.

Concepts

water runoff, water, erosion, soil erosion, water erosion, wind erosion

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Repeat the experiment from the video using different types of plants as ground cover
• Ask learners what the ideal ground cover would be for a large field

Classroom Considerations

• Expects a solid understanding of water and wind erosion

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Uses modeling to demonstrate soil erosion
• Offers an option for closed captioning to support vocabulary acquisition

Cons

• None