Lesson Planet
Search educational resources
  • Sign In Try It Free
  • AI Teacher Tools
    • Discover Resources Search reviewed educational resources by keyword, subject, grade, type, and more
    • Curriculum Manager (My Content) Manage saved and uploaded resources and folders To Access the Curriculum Manager Sign In or Join Now
    • Browse Resource Directory Browse educational resources by subject and topic
    • Curriculum Calendar Explore curriculum resources by date
    • Lesson Planning Articles Timely and inspiring teaching ideas that you can apply in your classroom
    • Our Story
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Testimonials
    • Contact Us
  • Pricing
  • School Access
    • Your school or district can sign up for Lesson Planet — with no cost to teachers
      Learn More
  • Sign In
  • Try It Free

Hi, what do you want to do?

Create a lesson plan
Create a lesson plan
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Generate resources with 80+ AI teacher tools
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Search 200,000 instructional videos
Find a teaching resource
Find a teaching resource
Soil Sampling: Random Sampling Across a Large Field with Hammer Probe Instructional VideoSoil Sampling: Random Sampling Across a Large Field with Hammer Probe Instructional Video
Publisher
New Mexico State University
Resource Details
Curator Rating
Educator Rating
Not yet Rated
Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Science
4 more...
Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
3:21
Audiences
For Teacher Use
1 more...
Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
Technology
Video
Internet Access
Year
2016
Usage Permissions
Fine Print
Instructional Video

Soil Sampling: Random Sampling Across a Large Field with Hammer Probe

Curated and Reviewed by Lesson Planet

What defines a random sample? Scholars learn how to collect a random soil sample from a large field. The narrator explains the importance of ensuring the sample is random and shows how to create a random sample before sending it to the lab.

3 Views 0 Downloads

Concepts

soil analysis, soil, soil composition, random sampling

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair the lesson with the video on sampling a small field; compare and contrast the processes
  • Post the lesson to a class website to make available as a resource when collecting samples

Classroom Considerations

  • Consider monitoring YouTube comments if assigning for independent viewing
  • This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

  • Demonstrates the process from start to finish in a real field
  • Offers an option for subtitles to support language barriers

Cons

  • None

See similar resources:

Lesson Plan

Monitoring Amphibians

Omaha Zoo
What sort of shoes do frogs wear? Open toad sandals. If your scholars want experience collecting field samples, this is the lesson for you. After learning the proper way to collect field samples, pupils catch amphibians to test for...
6th - 10th Science
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Random Sampling

Curated OER
In this random sampling worksheet, students compare data collected by a random sample to data collected by an actual count using pieces of paper with numbers written on them. They compare their data for the actual count to the random...
7th - 9th Science
Instructional Video

Soil Sampling: Random Sampling a Small Field with Hammer Probe

New Mexico State University
There's some serious science behind farming! A quick video lesson presents the process of collecting a random field soil sample for analysis. Instruction includes what a random sample looks like as well as how to prepare the sample for...
4 mins 9th - 12th Career & Technical Education
Lesson Plan

Sampling the Ocean Floor

Curated OER
Learners sample goodies from an unseen ocean floor and try to accurately describe their composition. This simulation helps students explain the limitations of sampling and the problem of obtaining representative samples of sea floor...
3rd - 12th Science
Activity

Start a Rock Collection

American Museum of Natural History
Rocks hold evidence of Earth's past. A three-step guide describes the process of creating a rock collection. It provides a data collection sheet to make notes about each sample.
6th - 12th Science
Activity

Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Field Trip)

Teach Engineering
With a piece of plastic here and a piece of plastic there, here a piece, there a piece, everywhere a piece. Teams go on a field trip in order to document the locations and kinds of plastic trash in an area near them. The eighth...
7th - 9th Science
CCSS: Designed
Interactive

Water Sampling

Learning Games Lab
Scientific procedures ensure valid data and valid results. Use a water sampling interactive to teach learners the procedures for collecting water samples. The interactive takes users through the process step-by-step with notes of...
9th - 12th Career & Technical Education
Interactive

Bacteria Sampling

Learning Games Lab
Scholars explore the procedure for bacteria sampling in a virtual lab by first walking through a detailed step-by-step procedure of preparing the samples of raw milk and pasteurized milk, growing the bacteria, and comparing results....
9th - 12th Science
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

Biot-Savart Law

Teach Engineering
Electrical current going round and round,produces a magnetic field. After a demonstration of the magnetic field surrounding an electrical wire, class members use the provided formula associated with Biot-Savart's Law to calculate the...
11th - 12th Science
CCSS: Designed
Lesson Plan

Processes on Complex Networks

Teach Engineering
Introduces your class to random processes in networks with an activity that uses information about disease spread using the susceptible, infectious, resistant (SIR) model. Participants determine whether a susceptible person becomes...
7th - 10th Science
CCSS: Adaptable
Try It Free
© 1999-2026 Learning Explorer, Inc.
Teacher Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Resources

Sign up for the Lesson Planet Monthly Newsletter

Open Educational Resources (OER)

  • Health
  • Language Arts
  • Languages
  • Math
  • Physical Education
  • Science
  • Social Studies
  • Special Education
  • Visual and Performing Arts
View All Lesson Plans

Discover Resources

  • Our Review Process
  • How it Works
  • How to Search
  • Create a Collection

Manage Curriculum

  • Edit a Collection
  • Assign to Students
  • Manage My Content
Contact Us Site Map Privacy Policy Terms of Use