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Start Here You Can Do This Small Steps → Real Change Welcome to Resilient Roots You don’t need perfect conditions to grow something meaningful. You just need a starting point—and a plan you can actually follow. This guide helps you choose a first project (or a next project) based on your space, your energy, and your goals—food, habitat, healing plants, restoration, or simple daily peace. Sustainable Gardening Urban Innovations Mindful Spaces Eco-Restoration Junior Naturalist Resource Hub Rowan’s Resilience Tip The fastest way to build confidence is to complete one small project that works. Start tiny. Notice what changes. Then build from there. Quick Pick: What are you here for? Grow food & stretch groceries • Garden in a small space • Create a calming, healing space • Fix a proble...
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ONLINE INTERACTIVE: STEAM SOIL PROJECTS

Online Interactive Soil STEAM Projects

Design rain-resilient landscapes, explore NOAA tools, and share classroom results to build a community dataset on soil absorption.

Soil • Water • Erosion Data & Measurement Engineering Design Ages 2–4 • 5–8 • 9+
Submit Class Data (Google Form) NOAA Tools Live Results Eco-Restoration Hub Junior Naturalist Hub

Note: The data submission form opens in a new tab because it allows optional photo uploads.

Interactive Challenge: Design a Rain-Resilient Yard

Drag elements, map water flow, and refine your design to reduce runoff and erosion — then connect your plan back to soil infiltration.

Teacher tip: If students need their own copy, open the Slides link and choose File → Make a copy.

NOAA Soil & Rainfall Tools

  • NOAA Atlas 14 PFDS: Find design-storm rainfall amounts for your area.
  • NOAA Climate Data Online: Explore historical precipitation data.
  • NWS Past Precipitation Map: Visualize recent rainfall patterns.
Open Atlas 14 PFDS Open Climate Data Open Past Precip Map

Product Testing Updates

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Live Data Results

This chart updates automatically as new submissions come in (privacy-safe: no emails displayed).

Want your class included? Use the “Submit Class Data” button at the top of this page.

ResilientRootsRowan.blogspot.com • Online Soil STEAM Extensions

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