Educational resources

Soil-Net.com is a free educational resource with extensive teacher aids supporting the many interactive student activities.

Soilscapes Viewer is a free interactive web-based map of soil types in England and Wales. Soilscapes Viewer offers a fantastic way to learn more about the soils in your region, and across the two countries. Input your UK Postcode and discover more about the soil resource under your feet.

The Land Information System, or LandIS, is an environmental information system holding comprehensive soils information for England and Wales. LandIS is run by Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute, (www.cranfield.ac.uk/soil) and is used by a broad range of users interested in soil conditions, properties and mapping. Datasets, maps and publications are available from LandIS to support your research and educational projects.

SoilsWorldwide is a free online web resource, developed by Cranfield University’s National Soil Resources Institute, dedicated to exploring and presenting the sheer variety of soil and related soil landscapes worldwide. SoilsWorldwide is the home of SoilPIC, the Soils Photographic Image Collection and Archive, partly sponsored by the British Society of Soil Science. SoilPIC seeks to present photographic imagery to depict the astonishing variety of soil types from around the world, together with the landscapes typical of these soils. If you would like to share your own soils photographs, please contact the SoilsWorldwide project!

For academic use, the National Soil Resources Institute is offering instantaneous and free access for undergraduate students to their Soils Site Reporter. These reports provide an excellent basis for understanding many of the environmental conditions affecting any site in England or Wales. These reports are particularly useful for: geographers, geologists, archaeologists, environmental scientists, biologists, ecologists and more. Students will need to register with their “ .ac.uk” email address to access the free academic reports. We hope this new, free service will be of great use to your students and staff for teaching purposes.