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Orange Juice - From the Tree to the Glass
Second graders work in groups to create a play showing how an orange becomes orange juice at the store. In this economics and goods production lesson, 2nd graders complete a webquest that guides them though discovering the process of...
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Tree-mendous Game
Learners play a game where they classify the different characteristics of trees. In this tress lesson plan, students also use tree vocabulary and describe benefits of trees.
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Food Preservation: Food Science, Canning, Gardening
Learners consider the procedures and safety issues involved in food preservation. They conduct experiments in canning, freezing and drying. If everyone can preserve food utilizing a variety of methods and science principles, the lesson...
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What Do Trees Do for Dinner?
Students investigate how trees produce their own food. They examine chlorophyll cells with a microscope, analyze a cross section of a log, determine how old the tree was, simulate the distance of the roots, and create a play.
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Wisconsin Agriculture; Berry Bunch's Cherry Fast Facts
Students explore agriculture by researching Wisconsin's economy. In this cherry industry lesson, students read assigned text about the amount of cherries Wisconsin produces annually and the revenue it brings in to the state. Students...
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Agriculture in Your Life
Students examine the agricultural sources of everyday products and identify food products outside traditional farming circles. They discuss the background information, and complete activity sheets, locating various commodity locations on...
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The Many Uses of Trees
Young scholars list all the ways humans use trees and tree by products. In this lesson young scholars watch a video, discuss the impact trees have on humans, and research common products made from trees. The young scholars use their...
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Uses of a Tree
Students complete a word sort to discover the relationship of tree resources. In this tree resource activity, students examine information from the word sort and the book "Be a Friend to Trees" by Patricia Lauber. Finally, students...
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Peanut Butter Broccoli
Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. In this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...
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Introduction to Trees and Wood
Students examine samples from various types of trees. In this trees and wood lesson, students review The Giving Tree and complete a KWL chart on trees. Students brainstorm what we get from trees and view wood samples with hand lenses....
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Trees at Work... Just Look!
Pupils investigate the significance of trees. They collect magazine pictures of animals that live in trees, list products that are made from trees, collect twigs and create an item using the sticks, and bring in and discuss food from trees.
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Food From Trees
Student use online resources to describe and compare food from trees. They take a nature walk, look for trees that give animals or people food and place foods found on a chart. In addition, they visit related sites for information.
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The Nature of Trees
Young botanists examine the different parts of tress and then draw parallels between the functions of these parts and the function of parts of the human body.
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Apple Kinds to Products
Students become familiar with various kinds of apples and the tree they grow on. In this Apple tree lesson, students recognize the differences between apples and can identify what happens to apples in different seasons. Students cut...
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Food Webs
Students recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.
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We All Need Trees
Learners complete a guessing game. In this tree products instructional activity, students view various household items and try to determine if they were made from trees. They discuss their findings and then read books about trees.
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Discover How Trees Produce and Conserve Energy
Learners discover the flow of energy from plants to humans, the importance of this and how the energy chain is effected. In this informational lesson students will see how energy is produced and conserved by trees and how it can be...
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Land as a Valuable Resource
Students investigate why the soil is important to our lives. In this natural resources lesson, students have a farmer as a guest speaker. Students begin to understand how farmers use and protect our natural resource. Students write...
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Uses of a Tree
Students identify and explore the resources we use that come from trees. In this reading comprehension lesson, students sort word cards about resources that come from trees into groups based on the type of resource.
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Food and Languages of the World
Third graders become familiar with the German pickle, part of the Christmas celebration in Germany. In this German pickle lesson, 3rd graders listen to the story of the German pickle and its significance to the German Christmas...
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Agriculture in Your Life
Students explore the origins of food and other everyday products around the United States. In this agricultural lesson, students learn basic vocabulary and practice matching common items with their agricultural source. They categorize...
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If a tree falls in the forest.......
Students identify by-products from forests used in their everyday lives. They describe several ways in which people depend on forests. Students list everyday products made from trees, then research and categorize less common products...
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Orange Juice - From the Tree to the Glass!
Second graders investigate how orange juice goes from the tree to the grocery store to the home. They complete five learning activities.
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Food Preservation
Students examine the variety of food preservation methods available today. In groups, they participate in an experiment to determine the conditions that encourage or stop the growth of bacteria. To end the lessons, they discuss the...