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Farming: Raising Winter Wheat (Lesson 3)
Pupils identify foods that are made from wheat. They use a line graph to explain measurement. They identify foods from the food groups and explain how temperature, prefcipitation and natural resources affect the growth of wheat.
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Philanthropy is "Phun" Lesson 1: ABC's of Giving
Students investigate ways to practice philanthropic acts at home. They record the activities they choose to participate in and the accomplishments they experience.
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Food For Thought: A Geography of Minnesota Agriculture
Young scholars participate in hands-on activities and discussions about Minnesota's agriculture. They practice reading maps and locating where certain agricultural products are found throughout the state.
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Agriculture
Students examine the types of agriculture in their own state and in their local community. They examine how food makes it to their local grocery store. They compare data from different states.
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Wood Products
Students examine wood samples and find and identify various items at school and at home that are made from wood products.
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Heavy Equipment
Students 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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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
Students identify careers that are nontraditional for their gender.
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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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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?
Students examine how animals on a farm provide us with many resources.
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The Mitten
Young scholars 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
Students 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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Plants
Students review the needs of animals, hypothesize the needs of plants, and set up experiments to test hypotheses.
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Animals in the Landscape Mural
Students design animals and settings for the class mural they find on the visual journey to a farm through the cutting, tearing, pasting, and coloring of colored paper. Visualizing and designing constructed paper forms fosters Students'...
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Story Quilts
Pupils create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
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A Common African Food: Fou-Fou
Students identify fou-fou as a common dish from Africa, and sample fou-fou using a traditional African form of eating.