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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Campus Nitrogen Budget

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are given guidelines to college level nitrogen budgeting. Students brainstorm the campus links to nitrogen budget. Students pick topics or subtopics for individual or group research. Students develop research plan, keep good...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identify Plant Nutrient Requirements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars 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...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Necessary Nitrogen

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view a video that presents the biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen. They compare types of soils and consider how different fertilizers affect soil composition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Soil and Agriculture: Lesson 4 - Agriculture and Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners determine how the various levels of minerals in the soil, as well as the pH of the soil, affect the growth of plants in these plant growth experiments.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Elements Found in Living Things

For Students 9th - 12th
In this elements worksheet, students review the most common elements found in living things. Students color in two pictures with the percentages of the elements found in that living thing.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemicals in Your Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemicals worksheet, students fill in 61 blanks of statements comparing the chemicals used in farming and the chemicals found in medicines and food.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

DNA!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to DNA. There are 29 biology terms located in the word search.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Micro-organisms and Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms that relate to micro-organisms and human life. There are 20 biology terms located in the word search.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chemistry Equations

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, learners balance the list of equations given using their knowledge of the Periodic table. There are 27 equations to solve on the sheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Science: Breathing in Space

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils determine the amount of air they use during rest and activity. They conduct experiments to calculate the number of breaths needed to empty a jug of water by exhaling through a tube into the container. Then, they figure how much...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria and Nitrogen Fertilizers

For Students 9th - 10th
Plants need nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids to grow healthy stems and leaves. Though the Earth's atmosphere is made up of 79% nitrogen, the form of nitrogen found in the atmosphere cannot be used by plants. In this...
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Website
Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Nitrogen

For Students 9th - 10th
An exceptionally detailed and helpful resource for all sorts of information on nitrogen.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Biochemistry: Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Article explaining what the nitrogen cycle is, and its role in an ecosystem. (Published: June 28, 2010)
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Nitrogen

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the element, Nitrogen, atomic number 14. Covers common chemical transformations, its physical properties, atomic properties, how abundant it is on the Earth, and details about health-related regulations. Also discusses...
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Other

Nutrients for Life Foundation: For Teachers: Nourishing the Planet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Download free curriculum with three modules on soil and plant science: elementary, middle, or high school. Each module includes hands-on investigations to help learners understand the importance of healthy soil and thriving plant...
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Lesson Plan
Other

Nutrients for Life Foundation: For Teachers: Nourishing the Planet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Download free curriculum with three modules on soil and plant science: elementary, middle, or high school. Each module includes hands-on investigations to help learners understand the importance of healthy soil and thriving plant...
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Handout
Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Nitrogen

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of valuable information on nitrogen, its properties and some of its uses and compounds.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Nitrogen (N)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here you can find some great information about the 7th element in the periodic table, "nitrogen." Content focuses on nitrogen's electrons, where you can find nitrogen in nature and in the home, and how nitrogen combines with other elements.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Science, Matter, Energy, Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Through interactive activities, reading exercises, and lab activities, students study how science, matter, energy, and systems are interrelated.
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Website
University of Missouri

University of Missouri: The Nitrogen Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides an explanation, accompanied by diagrams, of the nitrogen cycle, and also about how it can impact on water quality.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Growing, Growing, Gone! An Experiment on Nitrogen Fertilizers

For Students 3rd - 5th
Plants need nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids to grow healthy stems and leaves. Though the Earth's atmosphere is made up of 79% nitrogen, the form of nitrogen found in the atmosphere cannot be used by plants. In this...
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Handout
University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Mars' Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a comparison of the atmospheric composition of Earth, Venus and Mars.
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Unit Plan
Next.cc

Next: Air

For Students 3rd - 8th
Multiple activities explore and explain why plants and animals need air to survive.
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Activity
Michigan Reach Out

University of Michigan: Liquid Nitrogen Fun!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lessons and science demos using liquid nitrogen.