Agriculture and Me

Lesson Plan: My Farm Web

Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm.

Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

Objective 2 The difference between needs and wants.
Objective 8 The goods and services produced in the market and those produced by the government.

Farm Tour

Lesson Plan: Many Types of Farms

Students explore the sources of a variety of agricultural products and discover that farms can be diverse in size and in products that are grown and raised.

Identify the major ecosystems and agro-ecosystems in their community or region (e.g., hardwood forests, conifers, grasslands, deserts) with agro-ecosystems (e.g., grazing areas and crop growing regions) (T1.3-5.d)

Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

Objective 1 The physical environment provides opportunities for and imposes constraints on human activities.

Objective 1 The theme of people, places, and environments involves the study of location, place, and the interactions of people with their surroundings.
Objective 3 Physical and human characteristics of the school, community, state, region, and the interactions of people in these places with the environment.
Objective 5 Physical changes in community, state, and region, such as seasons, climate, and weather, and their effects on plants and animals.

3-LS4-3 Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.

Life Cycles

Lesson Plan: A Rafter of Turkeys

Students investigate the domestication and life cycle of the turkey, discover how turkeys are raised on farms, and identify turkey products.

Provide examples of specific ways farmers meet the needs of animals (T2.3-5.d)

Understand the concept of land stewardship and identify ways farmers care for land, plants, and animals (T2.3-5.e)

3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Eating Plants

Lesson Plan: FoodMASTER: Vegetables

Students measure the weight and length or circumference of various vegetables, classify the vegetables based on plant parts, explore chemical reactions from cooking colored vegetables in acidic and basic water, and use a variety of vegetables to prepare soup.

Describe the necessary food components of a healthy diet using the current dietary guidelines (T3.3-5.a)

Explain how the availability of soil nutrients affects plant growth and development (T2.3-5.c)

4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

Pollinator Hotel

Pollinator Hotel Tutorial Video

This tutorial video will walk you through the Pollinator Hotel activity.

Lesson Plan: Honey Bees: A Pollination Simulation

Students identify the parts of a honey bee, the stages of its life cycle, and its role in pollination.

Provide examples of specific ways farmers meet the needs of animals (T2.3-5.d)

Understand the concept of land stewardship and identify ways farmers care for land, plants, and animals (T2.3-5.e)

Explain the value of agriculture and how it is important in daily life. (T5.3-5.d)

Provide examples of science being applied in farming for food, clothing, and shelter products. (T4.3-5.d)

3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

4-LS1-1 Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

4-LS1-2 Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.