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Beyond Organic?
Students examine the critiques of organic agriculture and its production and marketing approaches. In this sustainable agriculture lesson students study how the ideas about ethics of the food system are changing.
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The Big Picture: Systems
Students study the ways that agro-ecosystems function to support sustainable agriculture. For this investigative lesson students examine the different cycles of ecosystems and food systems.
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The Economics of Horticultural Production
Pupils examine how government programs and sustainable practices can affect farm profitability. In this agriculture lesson students complete several activities that include the prices of food and designing their own ecolabel.
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Fur, Feathers and Fins
Students examine the stages between growing the animal and buying it at the grocery store. In food system instructional activity students study the role that animal products have on nutrition and study animal agriculture.
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Sustainability
Fifth graders investigate the concept of natural resources. They participate in a simulation project to see possible uses. They use the internet to study how Hacienda Verde is used as a model for others for sustainable coffee crops.
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Reflecting and Creating
Students evaluate the sustainability of an enterprise based on how well it contributes. For this sustainable agriculture lesson students build skills as they work together by using the Internet to research and develop their own...
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Land of Plenty, Land of Want
Students view a video about the state of the environment. They discover the topic of sustainable agriculture. They identify problems and how to solve them.
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Real People, Real Farms: Case Studies
Students examine sustainable fruit and vegetable production. In this agriculture instructional activity students apply what they learn to real life situations.
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Regulation and handling of animal products: a special challenge
Students examine how food safety affects sustainable animal production and marketing. In this agriculture lesson students complete several activities including one on groceries and the rules of animal products.
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Our Water: Many Users - Many Uses
California's water supply is not always stable. Learn about the ways that California weathers a drought with a reading activity about water usage and agriculture. Once kids finish the reading passage, they answer a series of...
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Soil, Designing the Small Farm of the Future
Students examine the history of farming. In this environmental farming lesson plan, students explore the web and complete a variety of activities in order to understand the necessity of local, sustainable, and small farms for the future....
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Equadorian Rainforest: The Tropical Supermarket
Young scholars study the concept of sustainable agricultural practices through cocoa farming and the lives of the people who are the producers. Students watch a slide show and read a story which helps them understand the origins of...
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GMOs � Boon, Bane, or In Between?
Students examine the role of transgenic varieties in principal field crops. In this agriculture lesson plan students are introduced to some of the politics of science and some of the arguments.
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Cultivating Oklahoma's Future
In this Oklahoma agriculture lesson plan, 8th graders read and discuss information and vocabulary about new developments in agriculture. Students write essays on the future of agriculture in Oklahoma.
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Native Knowledge
Students investigate what type of climate and physical features certain Indigenous groups live in using an atlas and a provided worksheet. They then match the tribe and its location to the sustainable stategy employed in agricultural...
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Plate and Planet
Learners investigate the health hazards of modern agriculture and how we can choose better food options. In this healthy eating instructional activity, students identify different indigenous people in photographs and discuss what they...
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What's Organic?
Students define and discuss terms organic and synthetic, read article pertaining to organic agricultural practices in Oklahoma, complete worksheet, grow plants using both commercial and organic fertilizer, compare growth rates, and chart...
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El Salvador: How Can My Breakfast Harm the Birds?
Sixth graders explore how their food choices can have an impact on the rain forests. They examine coffee farming and how their techniques can harm birds in the rain forest. Students design two farms with sustainability of bird habits in...
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Real People, Real Farms - Case Studies
Students study examples of sustainable farms. In this case study lesson students study real cases of farms to gain information.
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Bees: The Invaluable Master Pollinators
There is nothing in the world quite like a bee. Here is a video that explains the importance of bees to pollination. Scholars consider possible solutions to the declining population of bees in the ninth and final installment in the series.
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Harvesting a Forest: How Would I Do It?
Third graders design a machine for clear-cutting an area of forest. In this agricultural technology instructional activity, 3rd graders are read selections from American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osbourn, discuss how trees are harvested...
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Will Biotech Crops Solve World Problems?
Learners read an online article to examine what biotechnology and agricultural biotechnology are. They answer questions and complete worksheets based on the article's information.
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Drought, nomads and the price of peanuts
Students read two short text items, which describe different approaches to agriculture. They describe the likely advantages and disadvantages of each approach for farmers, commercial peanut buyers, the government, nomadic herdsman and...
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National Worm Survey
Pupils participate in the National Worm Survey. In this National Worm Survey lesson, students generate data on earthworms. Pupils submit their data to the online database Worm Watch.