1. How Does Your Garden Grow? Fertilizer- Friend or Foe

Geo-spatial technologies are becoming common place in commercial agriculture and hands-on exercises using these concepts and technologies klfill many state K-12 education standards. The activity topics covered crop nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium), global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIs), types of agricultural field equipment, soil types and crop identification. Students developed and implemented plant growth experiments to test nutrient application hypotheses....