AAF Ginger Post - March

Posted: 3/2/2016

5th – February

 

4.L.3.1. Students are able to describe the flow of energy through food chains and webs.

* Make a food web and explain how energy flows from the feed, to the cattle, to manure, back into the soil, to the plants, and back to the cattle.

Discussion:

• Ginger metioned at the beginning of the video that they save the manure to put on the fields twice a year.  Why is this good for the soil?
• Teacher resource about manure fertilizer

http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/fruit-vegetable/using-manure-and-compost/

• How is this a type of recycling?
• What things can you recycle? List of things that can be recycled: http://earth911.com/recycling/