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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Impervious Surfaces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students comprehend impervious surfaces. They recognize the problems caused by impervous surfaces. Students observe how land use can influence impervious surfaces. They chose four of the seven basic land surface, students draw a picture...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

D. A. M. Agriculture Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore agricultural concepts and how humans modify the physical environment. They participate in card sorting activities to determine agricultural concepts: Dependence, Adaptation, Modification (D. A. M.). Students identify...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Many Jobs In A Loaf Of Bread?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students develop career awareness and skill building for job performance. After completing an inventory of interests and skills, students link their career choice to a the agricultural components contained in their choice. Thy determine...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ag in My Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the definition of agriculture.  In this Language Arts and Social Studies lesson, students read an article on products that are produced in agriculture, then they complete a vocabulary assignment and write an essay on the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Plant Inspection Lab

For Students 8th - 10th
In this IPM inspection worksheet, students complete a chart observing the phenological events that are observed at each stage of various plants' development.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What does AG have to do with me?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice alphabetizing while categorizing sources of basic agricultural products. They discuss agricultrual products, discover where they are grown and draw a simple agricultural scene on poster board.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Space Salad

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Learners identify and analyze some of the similarities between Earth and Mars. Students identify why scientists believe that living things such as plants can live on Mars. Learners evaluate each of the Growing Space modules identify in...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Water, Soil, and Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the fundamental importance of water, soil, and agriculture in sustaining the human standard of living; and the heavy toll that current agricultural practices take on water and soil resources.
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Handout
Other

University of Delaware: Major Resource Kits

For Students 9th - 10th
Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major....
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Artturi Virtanen

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Artturi Virtanen's inventions and research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry made him a Nobel Prize Laureate.
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Website
Other

Exxon Mobile: Be an Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Where can an engineering degree take students? Read the stories of innovative thinkers and engineers.
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Website
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Integrated Pest Management Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives general info on Integrated Pest Management. Along with news, IPM contacts, publications, and related links. Also lists various subject areas to look into.
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Website
Other

K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come and check out this awesome farm resource site. Students and teachers will benefit from this compilation of materials.
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Unit Plan
Other

Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: On a Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the effect that agricultural advancement has had on bird diversity in those environments.
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Website
Other

Ag Web: Agricultural Information, Tools, and Service

For Students 9th - 10th
AgWeb.com provides the latest news in agriculture, as well as weather and market information, helpful agricultural tools, and more.
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Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Dust Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how the ecological and economic disaster known as the Dust Bowl affected Texans and the state of Texas.
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Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the agricultural industry and how it shaped the great state of Texas throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Handout
Other

Kids, Cows & More: Texas Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick-reference page with facts and figures about one of Texas' leading industries: agriculture.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Agriculture Rules the South

For Students 9th - 10th
The essay describes the devlopment of the Southern colonies as agricultural centers and the cultural aspects associated with rural, agricultural life.
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Article
Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Texas Almanac: State of Texas Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the changes in Texas state agricultural industry over the past fifty years.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Native American Culture of the Southeast

For Students 9th - 10th
The dominant Mississippian culture of the Southeast signaled agricultural success and urban development for a variety of Native American groups.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Avoiding Soil Loss Study Guide

For Students 4th - 8th
Get an overview of soil conservation to avoid soil loss.
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Handout
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Mesoamerica

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the farming styles of various Mesoamerican Indians, at the bottom of the page is a discussion of the Incan terrace farming system.