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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Cloth: The Impact of Technology

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze and discuss several primary source documents that address the changes in technology that affected New England agricultural communities in the early 19th century. They also identify and discuss historical contexts for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Being the Boss: Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners describe the meaning of entrepreneurship and list three characteristics of entrepreneurship. They discuss the disadvantages and advantages of being an entrepreneur. They identify potential entrepreneurship opportunities in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day Without Ag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners investigate the concept of agriculture. They focus upon the presence of agriculture and the personal implications of it. Students generate lists related to the concept to encourage group discussions. The products of agriculture...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

4-h Veterinary Science Activity Page

For Students 8th - 10th
The 4-H teaches students about agriculture, health, and animal care - the last of which is the focus of this activity. From dogs and cats to pigs and hedgehogs, this worksheet provides helpful tips for caring for animals, as well as...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Food Safety Teamwork

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the different members of food safety teams and their role in the food safety cycle. They study how these teams work together to keep our food safe.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Day on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars discuss their morning as they prepared to come to school. The teacher guides the discussion so students understand ways they relied on agriculture to accomplish tasks. Young scholars view pictures of various farm...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helpful Microorganisms

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students study how some microorganisms are helpful and practical in foods. They work with microorganism in a number of food, such as yeast in bread and yogurt.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Environment: Just Around the Bend

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students decipher landforms on a map and corresponding satellite imagery. They consider the impact of pollution on agriculture and water. They draw diagrams demonstrating how pollution works its way into the food source.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Make Stew!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate how to create a vegetable garden and complete related activities. In this vegetable garden lesson plan, students receive agriculture notebooks to complete vocabulary for the gardening lesson plan. Students read...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Design Technology- Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a protective cover for outdoor plants. In this agricultural lesson, students use chicken wire, plastic sheeting, and empty bottles to construct a cover for lettuce leaves. Students take digital photos of their project.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

We Garden: My Life as a Fruit or Vegetable

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. In this farm to fork activity, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical thinking...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

From Seed to Apple

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars identify the stages of apple growth. In this agricultural lesson plan, students read the story I Am Apple and sing the song "Round the Apple Tree." Young scholars place pictures of the stages of an apple into the correct...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Parts Are There to a Plant?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore botany by completing plant science worksheets. In this plant anatomy lesson, students examine real vegetables in class using magnifying glasses. Students identify the plants anatomy and complete worksheets discussing...
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Curated OER

JUST A MATTER OF TIME

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners recognize the dynamic changes in themselves and in agriculture that have occurred through the years. They are shown pictures of a baby or students are asked to think of their little brothers or sisters or themselves in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

PEOPLE OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students evaluate how technology changed life in Mesopotamia. Students summarize the link between agriculture and religion in Sumer. Students classify the Sumerians according to social classes. Students classify the causes and effects...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

BIG Pumpkins!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How big is the biggest pumpkin you've ever seen? Did it weigh over a ton—literally? Young learners view pictures of some record-breaking pumpkins, including some that weighed over 1,300 pounds, before answering five word problems about...
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Lesson Plan
Education World

Predicting Pumpkins

For Teachers K - 8th
If you want more pumpkin seeds, you should get a bigger pumpkin—right? Young harvesters use estimation skills to make a hypothesis about how many seeds they will find in a pumpkin before examining the real number inside.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - Uganda

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Uganda. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Global Hunger and Malnutrition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Is there a difference between hunger and malnutrtion? Is this a problem only in third world countries? How does hunger and malnutrition affect the community? Why do these problems exist when the world produces enough food to feed...
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Unit Plan
Rural Science Education Program

Bees and Flowers – Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Why are bees so important? After several activities where kids investigate the form and function of flowers, they learn about the different types of bees and label them. They then examine pollen under a microscope and decide which bees...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prairie Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a simple lesson for young learners on the plants, animals, and flowers found in the prairie environment. There are worksheets embedded in the plan that pupils use once a teacher-led discussion and demonstration has taken place....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Prairie Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students search for a variety of items while visiting a Listening to the Prarie exhibition.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Outstanding Fields of Corn

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students will show knowledge of the five themes of Geography by creating a Diorama. This lesson allows the student to use their knowledge of corn, including both past and present information and apply it to the five themes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

That's Kind of Corny!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students apply math skills to determining how much corn seed to plant in 100 acres. They compute the amount of weed killer needed and after totaling how many bushels per acre they harvest, they calculate their profits.