Reading and worksheet engaging students in the relationship between plant nutrient needs and sources.

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Discipline
Life Sciences
Grade Level
9-12
Lesson Type
Reading
Lesson Keywords
Cation Exchange
Fertilizer
Soil pH
Photosynthesis
Macronutrient
Micronutrient
soil nutrients
Cation Exchange Capacity
Essential Elements
Soil chemistry
Soils and Plant Growth

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
9-12 LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems

Ecosystems have carrying capacities resulting from biotic and abiotic factors. The fundamental tension between resource availability and organism populations affects the abundance of species in any given ecosystem.
9-12

The sub-atomic structural model and interactions between electric charges at the atomic scale can be used to explain the structure and interactions of matter, including chemical reactions and nuclear processes. Repeating patterns of the periodic table reflect patterns of outer electrons. A stable molecule has less energy than the same set of atoms separated; one must provide at least this energy to take the molecule apart. 
9-12

Chemical processes are understood in terms of collisions of molecules, rearrangement of atoms, and changes in energy as determined by properties of elements involved.
9-12 LS2.C: Ecosystem dynamics
9-12 PS1.A: Structure of matter (includes PS1.C Nuclear Processes)

Ecosystems have carrying capacities resulting from biotic and abiotic factors. The fundamental tension between resource availability and organism populations affects the abundance of species in any given ecosystem.
9-12 PS1.B: Chemical reactions

Ecosystems have carrying capacities resulting from biotic and abiotic factors. The fundamental tension between resource availability and organism populations affects the abundance of species in any given ecosystem.