Average change: nitrates again

Spring still keeps happening slowly in Minnesota, and snow is still melting up north. Iowa and other big agricultural states to our south have experienced all their snow melt, though, and are beginning the farming season.

Here's a worksheet that's pretty well inappropriate to the academic year -- no one is doing rate of change right now in calculus or precalculus! But it's written, so I may as well share. Again, it's about nitrate and nitrite runoff into the Raccoon River in Iowa. Spring is a good time to fertilize soil, but the runoff that's happening during the first snow melt is actually all from fertilizer applied last summer.

Average Change: Nitrates in the Raccoon River

The semester is coming to a close. Just a few more weeks of class and it's over. I'm working, as slowly as the spring, on some new worksheets about White Bear Lake water levels and about bee ecology. I learned today that Michelle Obama keeps bees near the White House garden. They're fascinating creatures!

More later... just a few final exams to go 🙂

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