Under the background of emerging engineering education, the ideological and political education of soil mechanics played a very important role in enriching the teaching contents, improving the overall development of students and promoting the growth of young teachers. According to the characteristics of the ideological and political teaching of soil mechanics course, this paper analyzed the ideological and political elements in each chapter, and mainly discussed the teaching practice of soil mechanics from the aspects of curriculum outline, content setting, teaching methods. With curriculum ideological and political education and experimental ideological and political education, make students enter and go out of the "traditional classroom" at the same time and cultivate students’ consciousness of unity of knowledge and practice, realize a new teaching mode of joint education of moral education and intellectual education of soil mechanics.