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How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little? Factors That Affect Plant Growth.
Pamela Emery. Sacramento, Calif.: California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, 1993.
Program Overview
How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little? Factors That Affect Plant Growth is one of many individual instructional units from the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom. This self-contained unit helps students learn about agriculture and its role in American society.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
6-7.
In this 6- to 8-week unit on factors that affect plant growth, students learn about the nutrients required for plants, where the nutrients come from, and the effects of factors such as soil type and fertilizers on plant growth. During the activities, they learn the 6 basic parts of plants and their functions, they analyze soil samples, and they make a nutrient solution from manure. They also design an experiment to find out if too many nutrients can harm or kill a plant, analyze the contents of fertilizers, and learn to diagnose plant illnesses. Finally, students apply their knowledge to vote on mock ballot propositions that relate to agricultural and urban water issues in a community. Some of the activities require that teachers plant and grow seeds away from the classroom for 2 to 3 weeks.
Divided into 11 lessons, How Much Is Too Much? How Little Is Too Little? is composed of both classroom activities and reading and writing exercises. Activities can be completed in a variety of sequences. Each lesson includes background information, a materials list, procedures, reproducible student worksheets, and extensions. A teacher resource section provides management tips, answers to commonly asked questions, additional extension activities, references, and a list of organizations and companies such as agricultural bookstores.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; form and function.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems.
Price:
$8.
Publisher/supplier:
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.
Materials:
Available locally.
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