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Animal Science - Body Temperature

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use the TI-83 + linked to the CBL2 and temperature probes to perform an experiment. Each of the temperature probes is placed into a different cup, one insulated and one not insulated. Each cup holds warm water. The two cups are...
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Arizona Grown Specialty Crop Lesson Plan: Where Do They Go?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore biotic and abiotic factors in landscape design. In this landscaping lesson plan, students create 3-dimensional models that represent landscape designs taking into consideration climate and planting requirements.
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Dark Days

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore U.S. history by viewing video clips in class. In this dust bowl era lesson, 5th graders identify the impact of giant dust storms on the U.S. agriculture systems and the U.S. economy in the 20th century. Students...
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North vs. South

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use information about the Union and Confederate troops to create a bar graph.  For this graphing lesson, students graph troop information on a bar graph, color coding the information.  Students then find the differences between...
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Clothes on the Grow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Can you grow clothes? Sure, wool, cotton, and Angora are all natural resources used to make textile products. Learners investigate the differences between synthetic and natural fibers, then consider textile processing careers. They watch...
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Math: Real Time and Live

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Get an interdisciplinary edge. Scholars study air contamination and slope. They record the time it takes for air fresheners to reach them at variable distances. They document their times, classify them by distance, and draw a scatter...
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Plant Science Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A unique PowerPoint explains the basics of plant science. It motivates viewers to study plant science and then lists different food products, biofuels, fibers, timber, and ornamental uses of plants. It concludes with lists of careers...
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Toward a Sustainable Agriculture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Read about sustainable agriculture and complete related Internet activities. After reading background information about the economics of sustainable agriculture and the problems with the industrial food system, your students click on...
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Algebra 1

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students study the functional relationships of a variety of problems. In this functional relationship lesson, students determine the dependent and independent quantities of a given set of data. Students record the data and write it in...
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Worksheet 2: In/Out Table of Returns of Corn Yields

For Teachers 7th - 8th
For this function worksheet, students determine the gross price earned per acre of crops planted. They recognize ratios and proportions as they determine the yield of each crop.
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Good Food Explorers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students use different food items in order to practice the mathematical concept of shape recognition. At the same time the teacher explains how crops are a source of physical health. They use all five senses to describe each food item...
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Cause and Effect

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this cause and effect worksheet, students read information about cause/effect, review signal words and read an article about Indiana weather and crops. Students then answer 3 related cause/effect questions.
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A Safe Food Supply? Is Your Food Safe to Eat?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Viewers of this slide show learn that pesticides used on food crops can be harmful, but that there are certain allowable levels that should not be hazardous. They find out the rigorous process of inspection that meat must go through...
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Center for History Education

The Tobacco Economy: How did the Geography of the Chesapeake Region Influence its Development?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore the relationship between geography and economy using primary sources. After examining wills, advertisements, and other primary sources, individuals consider how the Chesapeake Region came to be home first to indentured servants,...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Colonial America Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers 3rd Standards
A read-aloud anthology explores Colonial America. Third graders listen to informational texts, discuss what they heard, and participate in extension activities and writing. Take-home materials, assessments, and remediation opportunities...
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Eat Your State

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the three major crops, some of the specialty crops, a natural resource from Indiana. They identify where they are located with 90% accuracy. Students map the physical regions of Indiana and identify the major...
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It's (Not) Just a Bug

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore, examine and reflect on challenges facing produce farmers. They study about invasive species and how they affect the agricultural industry by reading and discussing the article "Tiny but Hungry, Moth May Peril California...
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Christmas Tree Farming in Ontario

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils realize that Christmas trees produced in Ontario are a field crop that is harvested annually. They find out that Christmas tree farming is important to the economy and the environment of our province.
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Food in History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners research, predict and offer solutions regarding factors that affect current or future food crops could result in economic, political or social changes.
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Growth in Southern California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the impact of orange crops and the railroad industry on the growth in southern California. They develop a fact list about the history of oranges in California, and create a family tree demonstrating the impact of...
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Next Year's Seeds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Reading, a math game, and a simulation activity provide the engagement on a instructional activity about seeds and crops. Learners in grades two through four read an informational passage about crops, seeds, and farming. They highlight...
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The True Cost of Coffee

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the economic, health, and environmental risks of a one-crop economy in the developing world. They explain how or why it can be challenging for people of one culture to understand the lifestyle of a different society.
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The Disappearing Honeybees: Tracking Honeybee Decline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners practice graphing and other math skills to track number of honeybee colonies present in United States since 1978, discuss major crops that are dependent on insect pollinators, and examine reasons for decline of United States...
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Alternative Practices of Agriculture

For Students 6th - 8th
In this agriculture worksheet, students read the pages related to the discovery and practice of alternative ways of producing new crops. Then the graphic organizer is filled out for each idea.

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