Kids Korner

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Students and Teachers - We are here for you!! This page is changing.  I plan to showcase classroom activities we can provide along with ideas and information for you to use in the classroom.  Kids this page will also contain helpful information for your homework assignments and games to help make learning about conservation fun!  Check back soon for the updated  version!  Estimated completion date:  September 1, 2007
Fix that leaky sink! Assume little leaks only waste a little water? You can lose up to 200 gallons of water a day from a leaking toilet. And a faucet can drip 604,800 drops while you are waiting.
What's your topsoil worth? Topsoil is the outmost layer of the earth, usually less than a foot deep, which contains the nutrients and other qualities necessary to grow plants.  If you scrape it up and sell it by the truckload to people in urban areas, the value of topsoil is easy to determine.  The going rate for a 15-cubic-yard truckload of topsoil varies from about seventy dollars to four hundred and thirty dollars.  Soil erosion claims over 75 million tons of Missouri's topsoil each year, mostly from the state's ten and a half million acres of cultivated cropland. Consider that it takes about 500 years for nature to create one inch of topsoil.  With an erosion rate fo 5.6 tons per acre, that inch of topsoil would erode in less than 30 years!