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A Bug's Life
This lesson plan about insect metamorphosis
incorporates a fun game that students will
enjoy.
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A Day Without Agriculture
This lesson plans discusses two questions.
What is agriculture? and What are some ways
that it affects my life every day?
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A Garden Plot: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Encourages students to think about where
their food comes
from, observe roots and soil, and write about
experiences
while caring for the gardens they create.
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A Priceless Collection
Students will research and locate seed banks
around the world while experimenting with
viable methods of storing seeds.
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A Sour Subject
In this activity students reinforce their skill of observation, mathematical computation, and written expressing by comparing and contrasting grapefruits and lemons.
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A Worm's World
Students will learn about living and
nonliving organisms while observing the
changes in a terrarium.
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Access Nature
This inclusive outdoor education curriculum focuses on habitats. There are 45 hands-on activities, some contain adaptations for participants with disabilities.
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Ag, Paper Plates, & You
Agricultural activities using paper plates.
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Ag-ceptional Ideas
Quick ideas for an agricultural activity day
or science fair project.
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Ag-ceptional Ideas (K-2)
Quick ideas for an agricultural activity day
or science fair project.
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Agri-Cycle Poster
This poster, accompanied by seven reproducible lessons and activities, emphasizes the whole food and fiber system from production to consumption.
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Agricultural & Natural Resources Careers Instructional Unit
This unit contains eight lesson plans that
focus on agricultural and natural resource
careers.
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Agricultural Awareness Through Poetry
See how poets have used farming as a poetry theme. Students will analyze various poems, learn vocabulary, all while learning about agriculture.
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Agricultural Literacy Questions
Teachers may use these quizzes as they are
or select questions to create your own
agricultural literacy quiz.
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Agricultural WebQuest (Grades 6-8)
A WebQuest is a learning activity where
learners read, analyze, and synthesize
information using the Internet.
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Agricultural WebQuest (Grades 8-12)
A WebQuest is a learning activity where
learners read, analyze, and synthesize
information using the Internet.
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Agricultural WebQuests (Grades 3-5)
A WebQuest is a learning activity where
learners read, analyze, and synthesize
information using the Internet.
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Agriculture and Geography
This unit contains four distinct lesson
plans related to geography and agriculture.
Titles include: 'In My Own Backyard/K-
3', 'The Sweet Connection/4-6', 'Snack
Search/6-8', 'This Land is Our Land/9-12'.
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Agriculture Counts
These lessons use surveys and censuses as
the basis for showing why agricultural
statistics are important.
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Agriculture for English Language Learners
These Look-Read-Listen lessons for English
Language Learners are intended for learners
of all ages.
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Agroterrorism WebQuest
This WebQuest was created to complement the
DVD, 'Agro-Security-Safeguarding the
American Food Supply'.
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AgWeek & Science Fair Ideas
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Alfalfa: A home for animals and ice cream for people
This lesson plan was designed to teach about
the development of alfalfa production in
California.
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America the Bountiful
The lesson is designed to familiarize
students with the importance of American
agriculture.
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American Timeline Core Tip
A quick core tip about using timelines.
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An Ag Interview
Gain a greater awareness of the role agriculture plays in the American economy by conducting an interview with an agriculturist.
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Ancient Civilization
A lesson plan designed to help students
understand that agriculture in the beginning
of civilization.
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Appealing Apple
Stories, myths and legends help students discover the rich and varied history of apples. Interesting and fun hands-on
activities included.
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Apple of My Eye
The student will listen to and respond to a
reading by recording facts about apples.
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Apple Story
The student will sequence the events in the
life cycle of an apple.
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Aquatic Habitats
Engaging life science activities convey key environmental concepts and illustrate the interactive nature of living ecosystems.
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Arizona Specialty Crop Lessons
Thirty lessons developed by teachers that educate students about Arizona agriculture. Lessons about bees, apples, potatoes, eggs, pecans, seeds, lettuce, and plants. PDF Format, downloadable
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At Home on the Range
This instructional unit explores concepts
concerning rangeland ecology.
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Bartering Through the Seasons
A lesson plan based around the book 'A New
Coat for Anna,' will help students explore
and understand the importance of bartering
in economies.
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Beef Unit and Lab Plan
A curriculum unit and lab plan designed to
educate students about cooking beef properly.
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Biodegradable Corn Starch Plastic
Students will see how corn by-products can
be useful.
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Biomass: Lesson Plans on Alternative Fuels
A curriculum unit designed for South
Carolina 7-12th grade students which focuses
on Biomass (any organic matter that can be
used as an energy source).
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Biotechnology Program
This program was developed to teach k-12 and above the positive aspects of biotechnology.
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Bringing Biotechnology to Life
This video provides a comprehensive overview
to introduce the topic of biotechnology.
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Bubbles in Cabbage
Students will conduct experiments to
discover carbon dioxide.
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Build A Burger
Students will name and recognize the
products used to make a hamburger.
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Build Your Own Grow Light
Build your own grow lights for an indoor
gardening experience.
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Busting the Prairie: Planning a Homestead Community
Students will plan and design an imaginary
homestead community and a handbill to
advertise it.
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Butterflies Abound: A Whole Language Resource Guide For K-4
This resource guide supports in-depth investigations of butterflies with activities in science, language arts, math, and social studies.
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Buzzing a Hive
Explores the complex social behavior, communication, and hive environment of the honeybee through activities that mix art, literature, role-play, and drama.
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Career Vests
Students will become aware of the variety of
jobs available in agriculture.
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Careers
There are a variety of jobs available in
agriculture. Showcase the opportunities to
your students.
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Celebrate Louisiana Agriculture Unit
Three lessons that explore Louisiana agriculture through the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. Correlations to the Louisiana
Frameworks provided.
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Charting & Graphing Utah Weather
Students will use a chart of Utah weather
patterns to graph and make observations
about how climate affects the state.
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Children's Gardens: A Field Guide for Teachers, Parents, and Volunteers
This field manual includes step-by-step instructions for developing school gardens. Hands-on activities for
beginning gardeners of all ages.
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Classfunbook
This guide is designed to integrate social
studies and language arts.
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Coming to America
The six full-color study prints cover the
pilgrims' hazardous and arduous voyage to
the New World on the Mayflower.
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Compliments of Cattle
Meat isn't the only cattle product. This
ready-to-use black line coloring sheet
depicts cattle doing such things as playing
basketball, repairing cars, and putting on
lipstick.
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Conservation & Environment
These are great activities and ideas for
encorporating conservation and environment
into your core curriculum.
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Continents & Countries
Lesson plans specific to countries and
continents.
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Corn Field Math
Students use number sense, measurement and
data analysis to construct drawings and
compute multi-step problems with whole
numbers, fractions and percentages.
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Cotton Bolls
Help your students understand how the fiber
in their clothing, towels, and sheets is
removed from the cotton plant.
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Cotton Pickin': Before and After the Civil War
Students examine the importance of cotton to
the economy of the South before and after
the Civil War.
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Count Calories
A peanut will burn producing an impressive
amount of flame for a long time. The flame
can be used to boil away water and count the
calories contained in the peanut.
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Countries, Culture & Food
This lesson plan focuses on the relation of
goods and services within a community and
the special foods eaten at holidays or
celebrations.
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Crazy About Corn
A lively, fun-filled educational CD-ROM,
video and educator's guide that will keep
students interested while learning about
pattern recognition, memory, counting,
alphabetizing, geography, agriculture, and
elementary scientific concepts.
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CropView Agronomy
The purpose of this project is to engage
learners through computerized modules and an
interactive game to gain knowledge of the
plants that feed our world.
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Cycling Back To Nature
The guide contains information and lesson
plans about the ecosystems, microorganisms,
farmer role-playing, pesticides and the
environment, and world populations and food
production.
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Dairy Farming in Vermont
This is a Vermont Standards-based unit with a wide variety of activities and assessments on dairy farming, dairy
products and nutrition.
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Dear George: Using Census Data to Report on Agriculture
Students use Census of Agriculture
information to compose a letter about
agriculture in the US and translate
correspondence about agriculture from George
Washington into modern language.
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Defining Agriculture
Having trouble explaining the word
agriculture to your students? These lesson
plans and activities are designed to give
students an understanding of how broad the
concept is, without overwhelming them.
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Demonstrations in Soil Science
Demonstrations in Soil Science was prepared
by teachers at Purdue University to provide
lab and/or experiments with soils in the
classroom for secondary teachers.
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Dig In!
Dig in to Earth science
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Dig In: Hands-On Soil Investigations
Students will be up to their elbows in the
study of soil formation, habitats and land-
use, animals that depend on soil, plants
that grow in soil, soil science, and soil
conservation.
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Dirt: Secrets in the Soil (DVD only)
Designed specifically for Utah fourth-grade
students, this DVD contains a six-segment
program that brings the fundamental lessons
of soil science from the countryside to the
classroom.
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DNA Blueprint for Life
Students will conduct an experiment with
fruit to demonstrate DNA isolation.
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Down-to-Earth: Enriching Learning Through Gardening
Down-to-Earth is an experiential program that encourages youth and educators to use gardening as a means to explore growing food or fiber.
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Dust Bowl Days
This lesson plan uses photographs, songs and
interviews with people who lived through the
Dust Bowl to help students understand the
problems Americans were facing during the
Great Depression.
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Earthworm Empire: The Living Soil
This book is a link for bridging agriculture
to natural resources, earth science, soils,
history, language, art, and mathematics.
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Eat Your Flowers
Students grow flowers in different soil
types to determine the effect on flavor.
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Economics
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Economics, Quick Tips
Quick teaching tips for effective economics
and agriculture integration.
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Edible Numbers
Through a series of activities, students analyze the food
they buy at the grocery store and understand that it
ultimately comes from plants or animals.
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Eggs Eggs Everywhere
Develops age-appropriate concepts in biology and life science with literature, math, role-playing, drama, and art. Introduces sorting, classifying, and graphing.
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Energy, Quick Teaching Tips
Don't reinvent the wheel, check out these quick teaching tips on energy.
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Environment & Conservation
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Environmental Detectives
In this challenging unit students learn of the interconnectedness of the natural world and the complexity of many environmental problems.
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Experiments in Poultry Science
Embryology, the study of the unborn, will
help you learn how eggs are formed and
chicks are born.
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Fabric Production
These lesson plans focus on fabric
production in relation to wool, cotton,
weaving, spinning & dyeing.
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Fainting Goats
Students will practice telling time by
reading a story about fainting goats.
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Farm-tastic
This unit utilizes all the areas of the farm through literature, skill-based activities, and cross-curricular ideas. It is teacher friendly and child ready!
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Farming in Space
The Farming in Space activity has been
designed to demonstrate a plant growth
flight experiment.
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Farming: It's a Fact!
A lesson plan designed as an introduction to
careers in agricultural business.
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Feeding Body and Soul: Agriculture in the 19th Century: Haudenosaunee Agriculture in the 19th Centur
Experience the significance of raising the Three Sisters in the Haudenosaunee culture through oral tradition, art,
colonial accounts and hands-on gardening activities.
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Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
An international classroom for exploring the problems of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity.
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Fit With Fiber
Students gather and graph information about
favorite breakfast cereals.
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Food & Fabric Production - Fabric
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Food & Fabric Production - Pizza
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Food & Fabric Production- Animals
These lesson plans focus on food and fabric
production in relation to the contributions
made by animals.
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Food & Fabric Production--Crops
These lesson plans focus on food and fabric
production in relation to the contributions
made by crops.
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Food & Fabric Production--Processing
These lesson plans focus on food and fabric
production in relation to the specifics of
food processing.
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Food Models MyPyramid Activity Poster
Use the MyPyramid Activity Poster in
conjunction with the Food Models to teach
your students about food groups and food
placement on the MyPyramid.
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Food Systems Feed the World
This lesson plan focuses on the steps of
food production, why hunger exists and how
students can incorporate food into a healthy
lifestyle.
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Food's Amazing Journey
A science and economics lesson plan.
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From Genes to Jeans
An introduction to genetics concepts through agricultural examples. Punnett squares, mutations, and biotechnology
are taught using cotton and strawberries as examples.
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From Salt Lake City to Singapore
The lesson plan focuses on how Utah products
are produced and exported worldwide.
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Frontier House
Experience a modern-day family taking on the
challenges of living as pioneers.
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Fruits and Vegetables for Health
Geography, writing, graphing, and science activities are used to teach the importance of eating a variety of fruits and vegetables.
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Fun Faces of Wisconsin Agriculture
A collection of lesson plans for Wisconsin
teachers.
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Fun With Corn
An agricultural literacy unit for second grade students. Activities support instruction in language arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and health.
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Fun with Fish and other aquatic animals
An agricultural literacy unit for intermediate level students. Activities support instruction in language arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and health.
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Genetics: A List of Traits
Students flip coins to demonstrate how
cattle pass genetic traits to their
offspring through heredity and learn to
recognize the difference between dominant
and recessive genes and how they interact.
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Geography
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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George Washington and the First Census of Agriculture
Students will read excerpts from a letter
George Washington wrote about agriculture in
the US in 1771 and compare his evaluation
with agricultural data over time.
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Grains of the World
This hands-on activity explores grains
common in global agricultural production -
barley, corn, oats, rice, soybeans and wheat.
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Great Balls of Fire
Students will investigate the flammability
of natural and synthetic fabrics while
practicing safe procedures.
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GrowLab: A Complete Guide to Gardening in the Classroom
You'll find everything you and your students need to know about indoor gardening in this comprehensive book.
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Hairy Heredity
Students will flip coins to demonstrate how
parents pass genetic traits to their
offspring through heredity and the
difference between dominant and recessive
genes, and how they interact.
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Have You the Time of Day?
Students will read a story about a day in
the life of a farmer and gain practice
reading and writing time.
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Heredity, A Link to Your Past!
An instructional unit centered upon
inherited traits and basic genetic
principles. The lesson plans include hands-
on activities and additional resources.
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Holiday Lesson Plans
Ideas designed to incorporate agriculture
into a discussion about holidays or
celebrations.
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How 'bout Them Apples?
Using apples, students will determine the
mass, height, circumference and organize
data into a chart/graph.
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How Far Did It Travel? Exploring the Geography of Food
Students will compare the distances food
travels from farm to table.
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Hunger
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Implementing Career-Based Learning
A guide for school-to-work coordinators covering program setup, student recruitment, evaluations, business
partnerships, and supervised agricultural experiences.
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In The Bag! Families Sharing Science Together
This take home learning kit gets parents and children working together to better understand food and nutrition through science and reading.
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In the Good Old Days
Students will learn how the changes in daily
household activities over generations
reflect our society's changing relationship
to food and fabric.
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In-Touch Science: Foods & Fabrics
Children focus on the science of their everyday encounters with foods and fabrics. Ten hands-on science activities as well as fabric samples are included.
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In-Touch Science: Chemistry & Environment
Activities cover dispersion, chemical concentrations, bonds and physical properties, dissolving, acids, bases, and buffers and how they relate to the environment.
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In-Touch Science: Fibers & Animals
Ten activities in this manual show children how five science concepts relate to fibers used for textiles and to animal life.
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Innovations in Agriculture
Sixty lesson plans about agriculture in the
areas of math, science, language arts,
social studies, fine arts, health,
nutrition, and safety.
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Insects
This link provides newsletter articles,
hands-on activities, and lesson plans on
insects.
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Insects All Around Us
Teach youth about interesting aspects of insect life while engaging in fun activities.
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Junior's Family Tree
This lesson about horses will help students
understand that traits are passed from
parent to offspring.
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Key Ingredients: America By Food
The website and lesson plans are educational
companions to the Smithsonian Institution's
traveling exhibition 'Key Ingredients:
America by Food.' Explore the two
ingredients that are key to American cuisine-
regional traditions and international
influences
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Kids, Crops and Critters in the Classroom
Sixty lesson plans in all subject areas based on Illinois Learning Standards.
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King Cotton
An examination of cotton, will relate how
this crop influenced the slave trade, slave
culture, economic policies, the Civil War,
and industrial revolution.
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Ladybugs
This popular unit uses the charm of ladybugs to present key science and math concepts relating to animal adaptation,
ecology, and interdependence.
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Language Arts
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Learning About Ecology, Animals, and Plants - PK-2
LEAP is a first grade life science curriculum that covers living things, including seeds, animals, plants, people, and their life cycles.
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Lessons in Economics
An interactive program for economics
education.
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Listening to the Prairie: Farming in Nature's Image
This traveling exhibition focuses on how
changes in this ecosystem and other
ecosystems across the country impact people
and their communities. The link provides
activities and lesson plans to supplement
the exhibit or to expose students to whom
the exhibit is not available.
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Literature in the Garden
A Junior Master Gardener curriculum.
This instructional unit explores gardening
through garden- and ecology-themed
children's books.
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Made to Move
Students will use simple machines to examine
the relationships between force and motion.
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Malnutrition: A Problem for the Hungry and the Fed
A teacher tip page designed to enhance
lesson plans about hunger, malnutrition,
obesity and general health.
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Maple Sugaring In Vermont
This unit explores the maple sugaring in Vermont and is designed for students in Grades K-8. The unit is based on the VT Framework of Standards.
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Math in the Garden
Math in the Garden uses the enticing realm
of gardens to inspire youth as they apply
important math skills.
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Math on the Menu
This unit provides real-world math learning experiences as students plan menus, determine ingredients, analyze costs, set prices, and design a restaurant.
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Mathematics Lesson Plans
These lesson plans tackle 'real world'
applications of measurement, decimals,
percentages, fractions, and probability.
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Microorganisms in the Macrocosm
This instructional unit discusses properties
and classifications of microorganisms, and
includes 11 microbe observations.
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Mission Geography
These lesson plans focus on spatial skills,
issues of human-environment interaction, and
the sustainability of water resources and
agricultural practices.
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My Farm Web
An interactive lesson plan where students
build a 'web' to showcase how agriculture is
a part of their daily lives.
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My Little Seed House
A simple lesson plan and activity about seed
germination.
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MyPyramid for Kids: Classroom Materials
Educational materials developed at the
elementary school level to help children
learn the MyPyramid food guidance system.
Lesson plans for teachers are available in
three levels.
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MyPyramid Table Tent
This MyPyramid Table Tent provides teachers
with an excellent resource for teaching
students about the updated version of the
Food Guide Pyramid.
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MyPyramid.gov
Explore the new food guide pyramid. USDA has
released the MyPyramid food guidance system.
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Nature's Partners: Pollinators, Plants and You
A comprehensive unit on pollination.
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New York Agriculture in the Classroom - Kindergarten Notebook
Lessons address language arts, math, science, and social studies using food and fiber system including animals, insects, popcorn, Thanksgiving, soil, raisins, and plants.
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New York Agriculture in the Classroom 1st Grade Notebook
Lesson plans address language arts, math, science, and social studies using food and fiber. Pumpkins, tomatoes,
rice, potatoes, eggs, poultry, plants, and animals.
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Next Year's Seeds
Students will get practice with number
operations while playing a game that
demonstrates variables that affect farming.
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Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century
Curriculum features six student activities
to help tomorrow's generation realize the
challenge of feeding our growing population.
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Nutrition
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Of Cabbages and Chemistry
Explore acids and bases using the indicator properties of red cabbage juice, group chemicals by behaviors, and relate acids and bases to students' own experience.
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Pizza Lesson Plans
Pizza lesson plans which focus directly on
mathematics.
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Planet Zorcon
This interactive group activity will help
your students understand the limited
resources available for consumption on earth.
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Plant Growth
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Potatoes in the Classroom
An agricultural literacy unit for intermediate grades. Activities support instruction in language arts, math, science, social studies, fine arts, and health.
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Presidents and Agriculture
A learning center activity worksheet focused
on the important contributions of American
presidents.
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Project Green Book 1: Science & Math
An outdoor garden and plant study activity guide for lower elementary students that supports instruction in math and science.
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Real Reasons for Seasons, The
To help students overcome persistent misconceptions about the causes of the seasons, this unit features modeling and
hands-on activities. Includes a CD-ROM.
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Red Imported Fire Ants, Teacher's Guide
This booklet provides teachers with facts and activities to teach children about red imported fire ants.
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River Cutters
Explores the concepts of erosion, pollution, toxic waste, and human manipulation of rivers; create river models, and begin to understand geologic time.
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School Gardens
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Schoolyard Ecology
Nurture curiosity about patterns and interactions in nature, beginning with students' immediate environment: the schoolyard and its inhabitants.
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Science Fair and Lesson Ideas
Science fair ideas, scientific topic questions, and websites
for preparing a science lesson or a science fair project.
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Simple and Complex Machines Used in Agriculture
Through investigating, writing, and experimenting, students learn about simple machines and how these machines assist people including farmers.
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Snowball Fight
Students will learn how snow helps crops
grow and play a game using facts and words
about snow.
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Soap Suds & Soybeans
A classroom activity centered upon the
importance of animal and plant by-products.
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Soils
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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SOILS-Tools for Educators
Available online or via CD-ROM, the NRCS has
provided soil facts, state soils, lesson
plans, soil songs, soil quotations, even
soil samples can be ordered for classroom
use.
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Source Search
Students will identify goods and services
and where they come from.
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Space Agriculture
This link offers teacher tips and classroom
activites on space agriculture.
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Space...More Than Black & White
This teacher tip offers some new ideas for
teaching about astronomy, space, and
agriculture.
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Summing Up Seeds
The student will solve addition problems
using two or more whole numbers.
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Supply and Demand
A good hands-on activity for helping students understand supply and demand.
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Teachfree
Teachfree provides educators with
educational materials on nutrition and
healthy choices.
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Teaching With Documents: Barbed Wire
Life in the American West was reshaped by a
series of patents for a simple tool that
helped ranchers tame the land: barbed wire.
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Ten Things Kids Want to Know About Farming
This video of field trips to farm and ranch
locations offers students a firsthand view
of what happens to produce the food and
clothing we use everyday.
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Tennessee Agriculture in the Classroom
This curriculum addresses state learning standards. Sections include: Animals; Careers; Environment; Plants; Nutrition. Links to curriculum through eighth grade.
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Terrariums: A Look at the Living & Nonliving World
Students will build individual classroom
terrariums to assist them in discovering
living and nonliving organisms and their
small environments.
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That Was Then, This Is Now
Learn how prices of food have changed over time by examining an included price chart.
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The Biology of Food
This lesson plan is a mixture of kitchen
chemistry and post-eating food metabolism.
It centers upon the origins of different
foods (from crop breeding to evolution), and
the ecological and environmental impacts of
farming and harvesting practices.
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The Disappearing Honeybees: Tracking Honeybee Decline
Students use graphing and other math skills
to track the number of honeybee colonies
present in the US since 1978.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (Fifth Grade)
The lesson will help students understand
that all food has an agricultural source
which has a particular geographic origin.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (First Grade)
The lesson will help students develop an
understanding that certain foods provide
nutrients and energy for growth and healthy
living while offering additional health
benefits as related to dental health.
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The Farmer Grows A Rainbow (Fourth Grade)
The lesson will help students develop
awareness that food preferences and cooking
styles may be based upon geographic, ethnic,
and/or religious/family beliefs, but all
food choices fit into the groups of
MyPyramid.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (Kindergarten)
The lesson will help students develop an
understanding of healthy food choices they
can make each day.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (Pre-K Appetizer)
Students will develop awareness that farmers
provide the variety and abundance of foods
we need to maintain and develop healthy
lifestyles.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (Second Grade)
The lesson is designed to help students
understand foods from each group which
should be included in a daily diet as well
as appropriate serving sizes of each food
item.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow (Third Grade)
The lesson is designed to help students gain
familiarity with the health benefits of
foods contained in each group of MyPyramid.
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The Farmer Grows a Rainbow: The Main Course
These lesson plans are designed to enhance
the MyPyramid lessons, and integrate them
with traditional academic subjects, and
emphasize the vital role played by the
farmer in food production.
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The Germinator
Gathering and charting data on root and
shoot growth is fun with these quick and
easy seed germinators!
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The Great Pumpkin
A classroom art project which showcases the
developmental stages of the pumpkin.
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The Growing Classroom: Garden-Based Science
This teacher's manual features strategies for managing garden-based science instruction including planning a garden laboratory, and more.
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The Little Red Hen
Students will use the story of the Little
Red Hen to further their knowledge about how
wheat is harvested and used today.
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The Sunflower Story
Students will learn what plants need to grow
by listening and responding to the story of
a sunflower.
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Things We Learn From a Cow and a Worm
This poster, with accompanying activities, encourages students to consider good environmental stewardship in their daily lives.
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Those Amazing Kernels of Corn
Corn by-products affect nearly every aspect of our lives. Children will be amazed at the many and varied items which contain corn.
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Tortilla in a Bag
Students will follow instructions to make
tortillas in a bag and learn about breads
around the world.
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Tree-Mendous
Students play a fast-paced word
classification game that helps them gain an
appreciation for the variety of ways people
use and benefit from trees.
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Understanding Avian Influenza
The Avian Influenza virus has killed both
birds and people in Asia and Africa. This
lesson plan was created to help students and
teachers better understand the potential
threat of this virus in the United States.
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Understanding MyPyramid
A basic lesson plan designed to help
students understand how to interpret the new
USDA MyPyramid food guidelines.
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US Agriculture and the World Market
Students interpret agricultural import and
export data in tabular form, determine
percentages, convert values between
measurement systems and graph information
from tables.
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Vitamin C Testing
Students are introduced to chemistry, nutrition, and consumer science and perform a chemical test to compare
the vitamin C content of juices and graph results.
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Vocabulary Builder
Students will listen to/read a fiction book
and respond by brainstorming and listing
descriptive words for each month of the year.
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Watch Me Grow!
Students will examine corn and bean seeds, observe and record growth, learn new vocabulary and recognize similarities and differences in new seedlings.
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Water Worlds
The physical and biological features of a variety of aquatic environments are explored using exciting hands on activities.
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Water: The Incredible Resource
Students will learn the water cycle and
discuss water use while participating in
hands-on activities. They will also learn
how to measure parts per million while
discussing water quality.
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Weather
Don't reinvent the wheel; check out our
lesson plans on this subject.
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Weather and Agriculture
This lesson plan will help students discover
the relationship between climate and
agriculture.
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Weather Harvest Desk Game
A printable desk game that will show
students that agriculture is affected by the
weather.
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WebQuest Virtual Field Trips
A virtual field trip includes numerous video
clips of agricultural scenes.
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What's Bugging You?
Perform reading and poetry activities on specific agricultural and garden pests and then create an imaginary pest of your own.
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What's Your Brand?
Students will learn the history and purpose
of branding cattle.
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Where Beef Comes From
The video visits a farmer, who explains the care he gives his beef cattle and the valuable byproducts.
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Where Did My Food Come From?
Students will map where their food came from
in the United States.
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Where Has All the Farmland Gone?
Students will look at issues related to land
use worldwide.
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Where Pork Comes From
This is a snazzy video depicting the importance of pork in our diets and in products.
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Where'd You Get Those Genes?
Learn the basics of heredity using agricultural commodities and horses as examples. Includes biographies and a
creative writing assignment.
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Why Are People Hungry?
An introductory lesson plan written for 2nd
and 3rd grade students about the issues
surrounding hunger.
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Wind Energy Curriculum
A wind energy curriculum available in K-12
grade levels, complete with background
information and hands-on activities.
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World Climate 'Ag' Zones
The lesson is designed to showcase the
relationships between climatic zones,
topography, and agriculture.
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World Trade
Students will use research skills to learn
about world trade and the organizations
which govern trade.
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