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Trades People
Students discuss the names of the people who work on various stuctures. They examine the many different roles people in construction can have. They match tools with the correct job and sing songs about workers.
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Comfort Quilts Project
Students help create quilts to be used for students who need to know someone cares for them around the world. They document all of the work on the quilt and write descriptions to be sent on to the person or community receiving the quilt.
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Heavy Equipment
Young scholars study the names of heavy equipment and the order it is used at a construction site. They chose a favorite piece of equipment and discuss their choice.
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Crazy Quilts
Students research women's roles in agriculture's history and how they have changed. They create a paper "crazy quilt" using a variety of colors and pattersn to help them explain the role of quilts in women's history.
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Make a Farm Mural
Students create farm mural that includes all the different things found on a farm.
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom
Learners identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender.
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Career Interest Record
First graders fill out career interest cards throughout the year.
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Spin The Bottle
First graders play spin the bottle and when the bottle points to them they are to describe their job at school.
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Down on the Farm
Students are introduced to a map of an Illinois farm. They determine whether the map is of the past, present, or future by looking at features on the map. They also use the map to make a three-dimensional model.
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Crayograph Quilts
Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.
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Count on Science & Math for Your Future
Students complete a variety of classroom and online activities designed to teach them the importance of science and math in all career paths and stimulate their awareness and interest in various careers.
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Old Macdonald Had A Farm
Young scholars learn the vocabulary associated with a farm and to count the animals by ones and tesn.
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WHAT ANIMALS GIVE US?
Pupils examine how animals on a farm provide us with many resources.
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The Mitten
Students listen to the story The Mitten, and visit a website about the story's author. Students create masks of the animals from the story and present a play of the story.
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Geo Jammin' By Design: Listening for Patterns
Learners listen to the teacher read a book and participate with guided questions. They discuss patterns and how they repeat, by looking at quilts. They design their own quilt block to create a class quilt.
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Geo Jammin By Design: The Important Thing
Students brainstorm what they know about geometric terms and patterns. They identify symmetry, shapes and congruency. They create a book of symmetry.
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Plants
Students review the needs of animals, hypothesize the needs of plants, and set up experiments to test hypotheses.