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Farm Animals-Matching Activity
In this farm animals learning exercise, students draw lines to match pictures of farm animals with their names. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Farm Animals
Students participate in an activity that reinforces their counting skills and the relationships between numbers, utilizing the concepts of more and fewer. They read in their Math Storybook's about geese at a fair and how those geese are...
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Do You Live On A Farm?
For this do you live on a farm worksheet, students describe can detail all the activities happening in the detailed picture that is associated with being on a farm. Underneath the image of the farm the words, "Do you live on a Farm?" are...
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Farm Word List
In this vocabulary worksheet, students inspect 25 words pertaining to the farm. Students read the word list and use it in writing activities.
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My Farm Web
Students examine the role of agriculture in everyday life. In this agriculture lesson, students read books such as Harvest Year and identify products which from from the farm. Students fill in a word web using the knowledge they gained...
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FROM FARM TO TABLE
In this cutting and pasting activity sheet, students are given illustrations of 6 products from farms. They are asked to cut out a corresponding source and paste it to the product (i.e., milk / cow).
Council for Economic Education
The Economics of Income: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?
If basketball players make more than teachers, why shouldn't learners all aspire to play in the NBA? Unraveling the cost and benefits of education and future economic success can be tricky. Economic data, real-life cases, and some...
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Farm Stories, Animal Webbing, Favorite Farm Animal Graph
Students brainstorm animals they would expect to see on a farm. They save these on a Kidspiration web. Students watch or read a farm story. They discuss the characters. Students vote for their favorite farm animal and crate a graph using...
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Animal Farm
Students read Animal Farm and examine how power corrupts. They role-play situations involving power and control. They investigate corruption and abuse of power in society. They write propaganda articles and hold panel discusssionsabout...
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Lesson: Living With the Farm Next Door
Discuss with learners why farms are growing in size and why there is sometimes conflict between farmers and their non-farming neighbors. Read the article, "Living With the Farm Next Door," and then craft letters to the editor from the...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
Students read Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen Harold. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of balloons. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Students complete various activities to investigate farm animals. For this farm animals lesson, students sing the song 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm,' and listen to sounds farm animals make. Students color pictures for farm animals and read...
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Farm Animals
Second graders write a paper about what kind of animal they would like to raise on a farm.
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Farm Animals ABC Book
Learners read and examine various books and websites on farm animals and farm life, then create a class farm ABC book. Each student is responsible for one page in the book.
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Farm Animals
First graders conduct research about farm animals and what it is like to live on a farm. They explore a variety of websites and complete an online WebQuest. They select a farm animal, and write a report about their animal's...
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Farm Animals
Students participate in fluency activities related to farm animals. They discuss counting sheep and view clips from the video "Babe." They create a short dialogue between Babe and Fly. They role play as animals providing the sounds...
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Fish Farm: an open ended, student centered laboratory activity
Young scholars are contacted by a fictitious company which raises tropical fish to do basic research for them so that they might keep their production costs down. They need to know the optimum salinity in which to hatch the brine shrimp...
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
Shapes in Agriculture
It's time to get crafty with shapes! Your future farmers demonstrate their geometric ability by building a farm using triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares. But first, scholars take part in a brainstorm session inspired by their...
Teach-nology
Reading Comprehension: Compare and Contrast
What do a zoo and a farm have in common? Second graders read about each place, and compare and contrast the details using two multiple choice questions.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
American Indians and their Environment
People could take a page in ingenuity and survival from the Powhatans. Deer skins became clothes, and the members of the Native American group farmed the rich Virginia soil and hunted in its forests for food. Using images of artifacts...
Microsoft
Iteration
Learn to code, play, then repeat. The fourth of nine installments in the Intro to CS with MakeCode unit focuses on how to apply iterations in Minecraft. Scholars use the Agent feature and have it dance and build a farm.
National Woman's History Museum
Dolores Huerta and the Delano Grape Strike
Few have heard of Dolores Huerta and her part in organizing the California farm workers, establishing the United Farm Workers union and orchestrating the Delano Grape strike. High schoolers consider why this powerful woman has been...
Louisiana Department of Education
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver's Travels tells the story of a man who goes on voyages and encounters strange people. A unit plan introduces readers to the classic text, as well as excerpts from other examples of sarcasm and satire, such as "A Modest Proposal"...
August House
The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday
Turn your classroom into a pig sty with a instructional activity based on the Appalachian folktale The Pig Who Went Home on Sunday. Similar to the story of The Three Little Pigs, the folktale tells a story of four pigs who leave home—and...