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.

Background
Lesson Activities
Recommended Companion Resources
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.
- AFNR (Grades 6-8): Plant Science Systems Career Pathway
- 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.
- MS-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity