Cycling Back to Nature: Food Production and Pesticides

Robert Horton

Categories: Foods & Nutrition

Cycling Back to Nature: Food Production and Pesticides

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This instructional unit is versatile and can be adapted to various grade levels. The guide contains information and lesson plans about the ecosystem, microorganisms, farmer role-playing, pesticides, and the environment, and world populations and food production. Well written and teacher friendly. These materials would be very useful in 5th grade science and economics education for grades 4-9.

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