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Nutrient Cycling
AP environmental science or college-level ecology classes will glean a tremendous amount of information on nutrient cycles from this detailed PowerPoint. It covers nutrient requirements, biogeochemcial cycles, decomposition rates, and...
Nuffield Foundation
Making Up Nutrient Agars
A resource rich in information—and nutrients. Learners create agars for the purpose of cell cultivation in Petri dishes. The lesson provides instructions on how to create agars for the cultivation of different microorganisms.
Pomegranate Apps
Foodle - Nutrition Facts
USDA National Nutrient data is available at your fingertips! This application is a vast library of more than 8,000 nutritional labels for commonly eaten foods. Search and sort foods by a variety of categories.
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Lesson 1: Fast Food Nutrients
Students compute the nutrient values of fast foods. In this fast food nutrient, students observe a PowerPoint about nutrition. They research nutritional topics, answer questions about nutrition, and determine the nutrient values of...
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Identify Plant Nutrient Requirements
Students are given standard elemental nutrients, identify plant nutrient requirements based on criteria outlined in assessment instructment. They, are given standard elemental nutrients, provide all means and chemical symbols of plant...
Science Matters
Crawly Composters
Get your hands dirty with an interactive instructional activity that showcases the process of decomposing and returning nutrients back into the soil. After building a compost pile, pupils regularly observe the...
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Pharaoh Mountain Hike: Investigating Adirondack Life Zones
Students hike a local mountain and examine its life zones. They measure various components at each zone and collect leaf litter at the sites. At the mountain top, students make descriptive observations and complete a handout about the...
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Soil Nutrients - Phosphorus Lab Lesson Plan
Young scholars list sources of phosphorus in soil. They explain how phosphorus is removed from the soil and used by plants. Students list the symptoms of insufficient or excess phosphorus. Young scholars perform experiments to examine...
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Nutrient Enrichment vs. Oxygen Depletion
Pupils investigate how excess nutrients enter a body of water, and the harmful effects they have on aquatic organisms.
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The Chemistry of Fertilizers
Young scholars use a series of hands-on labs and activities, practice problems, discussions and writing assignments, students investigate about fertilizer chemistry as they break compounds into ions, make a fertilizer and test various...
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Nutty for Nutrition
Young scholars create a PowerPoint presentation detailing daily intake of nutrients. In this nutty for nutrition lesson, groups of students conduct Internet research to determine what type of nutrients should be consumed on a daily...
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Plant Life Cycles - Chapter #2
Call this just a template for a presentation on plant life, not life cycles as the title implies. Content does compare the lengths of different life cycles and describes required conditions for germination, but it also explores cellular...
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Froot Loops to the Max - Nutrition Worksheet
In this nutrition worksheet, pupils solve 10 various problems related to reading the nutritional panel on the side of a box of Froot Loops. They determine how many cups are needed to achieve a certain amount of calories. Then, students...
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Using Dietary Strategies to Reduce the Nutrient Excretion of Feedlot Cattle
Students are introduced to how nitrogen and phosphorus metabolize in feedlot cattle. Using the Internet, they discover the recommended requirements for cattle to minimize overfeeding them. They develop dietary strategies that might...
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3-Every-Day of Dairy: Nutrient Package
Students discover the importance of calcium in their diets. In this nutrition lesson, students participate in an activity that requires them to conduct surveys regarding dairy and assessing what they eat. Students discover the...
Baylor College
Needs of Plants
What better way to learn about plant life than by creating a class garden? Young botanists start with a brief discussion about radishes before planting seeds and watching them grow. To determine the importance of water, sunlight, and...
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Going Global
Students describe the importance of aquaculture as a source for protein intake by humans globally. They are given a number from 1-3 as they enter the class. All "1's" recieve 10 beans. All "2's" recieve 5 beans. All "3's" recieve 1 bean....
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Nutrition
In this nutrition worksheet, students describe what nutrient is and how the energy it has is measured. Then they explain what is meant by interconversion of molecules. Students also list the common vitamins and mineral required by the...
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Plant Nutrition
The first slide displays the human nutrition pyramid, unrelated to the rest of the collection. Plant nutrients and fertilizers are really the focus. Different nutrients required by plants are listed and the roles that they play in plant...
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Food Energy and Nutrients
In this food energy and nutrients learning exercise, students fill in the blank and complete a chart with information about food energy and essential nutrients needed for the body. Using the Nelson text, students complete a chart about...
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Kool Kumara Lesson Plans - Healthy Living
Learners read graphs as they work with recommended daily intakes of nutrients. In this math and nutrition lesson, students examine Recommended Daily Intake Maps to establish how much of the daily requirement is met by eating on kumara....
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Food Journal Exercise
Learners are required not to change their usual eating pattern while recording everything they eat and drink for 1 day. They evaluate the nutrient composition of their diet, as well as their dietary intake and behavior within the...
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How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little?
Young scholars perform a series of experiments which show that plants require nutrients in certain quantities. They also cooperatively read materials on the nutrient requirements of plants, fertilizers, composting, and soil management,...
Teach Engineering
Dirty Decomposers
Do not let the class just sit and rot. Pupils learn how decomposition and nutrient recycling is important to an ecosystem. Groups design an experiment to determine how environmental conditions affect decomposition. They develop a poster...