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Fun Faces of Wisconsin Agriculture: Curley's Beef Fast Facts
Learners explore animal slaughter by researching the Wisconsin beef industry. In this meat statistics lesson, students practice using different math functions to identify how many burgers or sports equipment can be made from one...
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Great Expectations
Students explore the Oklahoma dairy and beef industry. For this data interpretation math lesson, students define vocabulary related to the cattle industry, then use a data table to answer word problems about cattle breeding and the...
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Sixth graders read about Grady, the Silo Cow and analyze the parts of a news story. In this news article lesson, 6th graders discuss writing for different purposes. Students discover the characteristics of a strong headline. Students...
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. In this news-writing lesson, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and work in groups to...
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Ag in My Community; Agriculture
Learners build knowledge about agriculture as it relates to their communities' commodities. In this agriculture lesson plan, students brainstorm about conditions in their community with regards to growing different types of crops....
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries
Students listen to story of Grady, the Silo Cow, review vocabulary in story, look at newspaper headlines and discuss purpose of headlines, determine what makes a good headline, create three headlines of their own for story of Grady, and...
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Ag in My Classroom
Students explore the definition of agriculture. For this Language Arts and Social Studies lesson, students read an article on products that are produced in agriculture, then they complete a vocabulary assignment and write an essay on...
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At Home On The Range
Students explore the history and domestication of the Bovidae family and their importance to our prairie ecosystem. Using a map of the United States, students located the American Great Plains. They complete worksheets and discuss...
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At Home on the Range
Fifth graders complete a worksheet. In this bison and great plains lesson, 5th graders read information about bison and complete a worksheet of comprehension questions. Students locate the American Great Plains on a map and answer the...
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At Home on the Range
Students discuss the American bison. In this social studies lesson, students discuss the history of the American bison and graph the decline of the bison population.
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Great Expectations
Students examine proper care of cattle, their breeding seasons, and benefits to raising cattle. After reading and interpreting a chart containing information on gestation periods, students answer questions on a worksheet. They research...
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AT HOME ON THE RANGE
The student will learn how ranchers on the western frontier helped saved the bison from extinction.Hand out student worksheets. Have students read the information about bison on Student Worksheet A before completing Student Worksheet...
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Real People, Real Farms: Case Studies of Animal Agriculture
Young scholars explore sustainable animal production. In this agriculture lesson, students examine how animal production is managed in the US and world. They apply this knowledge to real life situations by evaluating the sustainability...
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Ag in my classroom
Students fill out worksheets and create a poster based on items in their classroom that came from agriculture. In this agriculture lesson plan, students discuss different classroom items and how they were or were not made from agriculture.
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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.