UA/GLOBE SOIL MOISTURE - Long-range Plan

Overview of Soil Module Development

**Summary of Content Goals for Activity Sets**
Discovery	Physical Modeling	Mathematical Modeling	Analysis
Elementary discovery and exploration using common materials and simple concepts	Iterative experiments designed to investigate controlling parameters and practice technique	Simple to advanced mathematical models that make use of Canned, Field, and Archived data to simulate the object of a protocol	Analysis activities that present specific examples and guided use of the GLOBE data archive and visualization resources

**Soil Characterization and Soil Moisture Granules**
Pre-Protocol Activities		Protocols	Post-Protocol Activities
Discovery	Physical Modeling		Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (template)
From Mud pies to Bricks		Soil Characteristics
Dilution	The pH Game	Soil pH	Soil Chemistry Reactions and Rates
Earth(worm) Movers	Bottle Terrarium	Fertility	NPK/Crop model
From Mud pies to Bricks	There is always space	Bulk Density	Weight and Volume
Soil Walk		Soil Mapping	Soil Map
Design-a-soil	Soil Column	Soil Horizons	Model-a-soil
Sand Designs	Just Passing Through	Infiltration	Infiltration Equation
Soils and Sponges	Sand Box: f(water)	Grav. Soil Moist. Gypsum Blocks	Antecedant Precipitation Index
Surf. Temp. Map	Sand Box: f(temp) & Heat cap.	Soil Temperature	Damped Sine Function

**Colors related to Earth Systems Activities**
KEY:	General	Land Cover and Geography	Water Cycle	Energy Cycle	Carbon Cycle

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The table above presents activity/protocol sets that show the logical progression from initial Discovery to final Analysis
At this point, we will develop both pre and post-protocol activities in the same activity set (horizontal continuity).
In general, degree of difficulty increases left to right, but there are exceptions.
This table presents a long-range template for future development of this module, when it will occur is under discussion.

**Other Development Needed**
Quality Control	The Data Game
Basic Skills	Data Notebook	Journals	Methods of Enquiry
Common Skills	Mapping	Plotting	Classification
Training	Team/cohort/data building exercise	Protocol cartoons

Last updated: 5/2/97
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