This reading highlights the nutrient needs of plants and the role soils play in providing those nutrients.

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Discipline
Life Sciences
Grade Level
3-5
6-8
Lesson Type
Reading
Lesson Keywords
Soil Basics
Food
Agriculture
Food
Fiber
Soils and Art/Culture

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
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.