Educational Resources about Soil… and more!

• Lesson Plans for Educators: curriculum guides, lesson plans about soil and other natural resources, student project and research ideas, schoolyard gardening and outdoor classroom resources
• Healthy Soil Resources: resources for understanding and achieving healthy soil, soil health fact sheets
• Bibliography of Soil Health Resources: a comprehensive bibliography of soil health resources in downloadable format
• Web Soil Survey: an app for learning about the soil beneath your feet!
• Healthy Soil, Healthy Food Resources: information and resources about creating healthy soil to grow food, including home vegetable gardens, permaculture and farms

• Native Plants and Home Gardens: resources about native plants, information and ideas about creating a native home garden
• Rain Garden Resources: resources, guidelines and examples for building a rain garden
• Healthy Yards Resources: resources for healthy lawns, and links to our Soil Health Improvement Project (SHIP) and NJ Agricultural Experiment Station
• New Jersey Fertilizer Laws: information about the New Jersey Fertilizer Law
• Aquaculture Resources: information about aquaculture, oyster farms, oyster restoration and shell recycling

Low Maintenance Landscaping Guide for the Barnegat Bay Watershed
This manual, created by Ocean County Soil Conservation District, is intended to help you achieve a healthy yard, garden and landscape by creating a foundation of healthy soil, conserving water, using less fertilizer, and building habitat for wildlife using native plants, all while saving time and money.

Educational Resource Guide
This comprehensive booklet was created by the Ocean County Soil Conservation District as a one-stop guide for all educational resources related to the Barnegat Bay watershed.  What began as a simple directory has grown into a compendium of resources and organizations offering numerous programs, publications, field trips, and watershed information that educators can incorporate into their lessons and activities.

The Barnegat Bay Watershed Educational Resource Guide
Connect with other like-minded groups within the community.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Visit for Dig It! The Secrets of Soil exhibit plus games and other educational activities.

From The Ground Up, The Science of Soil
is a website that has many fun activities for families and interactive lesson plans for teachers.