For Educators

• High School
• Middle School
• Upper Elementary
• PreK-2nd Grade
• Types of Scientists
• Science Hour
• Experimental Forest and Range Material
• Learning Modules
• Smokey Bear Resources 
• Woodsy Owl Resources
• FS NatureLIVE
• Video Resources
• Coloring Book Pages
• GLOBE Connections

Order Products

• Create Account
• All Editions
• Middle & High School
• Upper Elementary
• PreK - 2nd Grade
• Scientist Cards

Food for the Soil: Soil and the Amount of Salmon-Derived Nutrients in Southeast Alaska

* Note: All editions of the Natural Inquirer starting with Volume 5 and including future editions require the newest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 in order to be downloaded. We have upgraded in order to ensure greater accessibility to PDF files. Please click on the following link if you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat reader: Upgrade now to Adobe Reader 6.0. It is a free upgrade.

Note to Educators

Lesson Plan

Word Search

Crossword

Photo Challenge

Reflection Section Answer Guide

Education Correlation Standards

• EPA's Surf Your Watershed

  For more information visit http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

• Gould League Interactive Food Webs

  For more information visit http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

• Natural Resource Conservation Service, Soils

  For more information visit http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/soils/home/

• USGS Watershed Information Page

  For more information visit http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watershed.html

• USGS You Are What You Eat- Isotopes

  For more information visit http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/projects/fingernails/results/interpretdata.html

• Dr. David D'Amore

• The Scientific Process

• Nutrients

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (A)
• Nature of science (G)
• Populations and ecosystems (C)
• Science and technology in society (F)
• Science as a human endeavor (G)
• Structure of the earth system (D)
• Understandings about science and technology (E)
• Understandings about scientific inquiry (A)