Curriculum ideology and politics is an important way to realize fostering character and civic virtue. Soil mechanics and foundation is a typical engineering course, and the exploration and application of the ideological and political elements contained in it is a strong support for the realization of all staff, whole course and all-round education. Taking the representative contents and cases of key chapters as the starting point, and combining with the , the rich ideological and political elements in the curriculum are summarized into three parts: patriotism, traditional culture and scientific innovation, each of these sections contains several secondary elements. Centering on the theory, experiment and engineering application of soil shear strength, the ideological and political teaching examples of the course are designed with teachers as the leading and students as the main body. Emphasis is placed on the exploration of ideological and political elements in the curriculum, and the systematization of pre-class preview, in-class learning, after-class summary, after-class homework and teaching reflection is strengthened. It effectively improves the purpose of moral education of course.