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Nitrogen Cycle Lesson Plans
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Students identify the main concepts and ideas of the nitrogen cycle. They review key concepts covered up to this point in ecology including food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, and bio-geochemical cycles.
Students study the nitrogen cycle. They create their own nitrogen cycle poem, rap or board game. They utlilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to identify the nitrogen compounds and nitrogen cycle processes.
Students discuss ammonia, and ways it may get into the aquarium. They complete a worksheet about the Nitrogen Cycle. Students learn how to get the ammonia and nitrite out of their aquarium.
In this lesson students study the nitrogen cycle and construct a diagram. In this Earth Science lesson students use role play to see the various paths.
5th graders explore the path of the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle. They understand the general cycles of each and think through and discover the importance of chemical recycling on earth. 5th graders incorporate the key concepts when obseving, examing, and analyzing experients in the classroom.
Learners identify organisms and processes involved in three cycles: the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the nitrogen cycle. They produce a pictorial or abstract water cycle, and appropriately place life forms onto an existing carbon or nitrogen cycle.
This lesson has learners investigate the nitrogen cycle and examine the concepts of decomposition and nitrification. This lesson has learners participate in a class discussion about the creation of waste and ammonia compounds, then using nitrogen cycle cut-outs create a nitrogen cycle.
Students investigate the factors that compose the nitrogen cycle. The harmful effects of acid rain and ozone depletion are also discussed in the lesson. Students define the nutrient that is often limiting to plant growth through conducting research.
Students take a virtual trip to a Catfish Aquaculture Pond and analyze soil bacteria to determine how many nitrogen cycle bacteria are present. They graph the number of colonies present and use data to determine ammonium levels in the soil.
In this lesson students design and create a compost pile in order to study the Nitrogen Cycle. They then use the scientific method to determine if plants grow better when they add organic matter from their compost pile to the plant's soil.
