Nourishing the Planet High School Materials
Includes Teacher Background, activity masters, support materials.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
6-8
9-12
Lesson Area
Soil Chemistry
Lesson Type
Activity
Lesson Keywords
soil nutrients
Nitrogen
Phosphorus
Fertilizer
Land Management
nutrient management
Essential Elements
Soil chemistry

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
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.
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.
6-8 PS1.B: Chemical reactions

Reacting substances rearrange to form different molecules, but the number of atoms is conserved. Some reactions release energy and others absorb energy.
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.
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. 
9-12 PS1.B: Chemical reactions

Chemical processes are understood in terms of collisions of molecules, rearrangement of atoms, and changes in energy as determined by properties of elements involved.