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Growing Pulses

This lesson introduces agriculture as a managed system that has environmental impacts, and how farmers employ practices such as growing pulses to minimize these impacts.

Grades
6 – 8
Estimated Time
1 hour
Updated
January 31, 2024
variety of pulses with wooden spoons and garnishes
Image: yilmazfatih/Pixabay

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Agriculture in the Classroom Canada and Pulse Canada

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Career & Technical Education
    • AFNR (Grades 6-8): Plant Science Systems Career Pathway
      • PS.01.03: Develop and implement a fertilization plan for specific plants or crops.
      • PS.02.01: Classify plants according to taxonomic systems.
      • PS.02.02: Apply knowledge of plant anatomy and the functions of plant structures to activities associated with plant systems.
      • PS.03.02: Develop and implement a management plan for plant production.
      • PS.03.04: Apply principles and practices of sustainable agriculture to plant production.
  • Science
    • MS-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
      • MS-ESS3-3: Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
      • MS-ESS3-4: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems.