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Agriculture with a Technology Twist

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Description: A variety of activities for multiple grades with hints on how to tie technology into the lessons.
Grade Levels: PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Keywords: plant growth, plants, soils and plant growth, soil particles, soil engineering, conservation, Soils and Plant Growth, Soil Basics, Soil Conservation, Soil Mineralogy
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Next Generation Science Standards

Grade	Discipline	Core Idea
PreK-2	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Wind and water change the shape of the land.
3-5	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Four major Earth systems interact. Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller pieces and move them around.
6-8	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Energy flows and matter cycles within and among Earth's systems, including the sun and Earth's interior as primary energy sources. Plate tectonics is one result of these processes.
9-12	ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems	Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
PreK-2	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Humans use natural resources for everything they do.
3-5	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Energy and fuels humans use are derived from natural sources and their use affects the environment. Some resources are renewable over time, others are not.
6-8	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Humans depend on Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for different resources, many of which are limited or not renewable. Resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.
9-12	ESS3.A: Natural resources	Resource availability has guided the development of human society and use of natural resources has associated costs, risks, and benefits.
PreK-2	ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems	Things people do can affect the environment but they can make choices to reduce their impacts.
3-5	ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems	Societal activities have had major effects on the land, ocean, atmosphere, and even outer space. Societal activities can also help protect Earth's resources and environments.
6-8	ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems	Human activities have altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging it, although changes to environments can have different impacts for different living things. Activities and technologies can be engineered to reduce people's impacts on Earth.
9-12	ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems	Sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources, including the development of technologies.
PreK-2	LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms	Animals obtain food they need from plants or other animals. Plants need water and light.
3-5	LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms	Food provides animals with the materials and energy they need for body repair, growth, warmth, and motion. Plants acquire material for growth chiefly from air, water, and process matter and obtain energy from sunlight, which is used to maintain conditions necessary for survival.
6-8	LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms	Plants use the energy from light to make sugars through photosynthesis. Within individual organisms, food is broken down through a series of chemical reactions that rearrange molecules and release energy.
9-12	LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms	The hydrocarbon backbones of sugars produced through photosynthesis are used to make amino acids and other molecules that can be assembled into proteins or DNA. Through cellular respiration, matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of an organism as elements are recombined to form different products and transfer energy.
PreK-2	LS2.B: Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems	[Content found in LS1.C and ESS3.A]
3-5	LS2.B: Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems	Matter cycles between the air and soil and among organisms as they live and die.
6-8	LS2.B: Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems	The atoms that make up the organisms in an ecosystem are cycled repeatedly between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Food webs model how matter and energy are transferred among producers, consumers, and decomposers as the three groups interact within an ecosystem.
9-12	LS2.B: Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems	Photosynthesis and cellular respiration provide most of the energy for life processes. Only a fraction of matter consumed at the lower level of a food web is transferred up, resulting in fewer organisms at higher levels. At each link in an ecosystem elements are combined in different ways and matter and energy are conserved. Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are key components of the global carbon cycle.