Reciprocal reading task: agriculture and ammonia | 14–16 years

UN Sustainable development goal 15 focuses on restoring and promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, halting biodiversity loss and halting and reversing land degradation, which can be linked to topics covered in GCSE and equivalent courses throughout the UK and Ireland. 

Your 14–16 leaners are likely to be familiar with some of the pressing issues facing life on land, with Goal 15 providing potential cross-curricular links with biology and geography. This reciprocal reading task explores the importance of nitrogen and the chemistry behind the production of ammonia, which will not only improve your learners’ scientific knowledge, but also their cultural capital and reading skills.