Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Full Lesson: Investigating Insects
Lesson Description: Students become entomologists by observing insects in their nearby surroundings. After observing and analyzing, they learn by playing a game how some insect interactions can be useful to people.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Gifts from the Sun
Lesson Description: Through creating and improvising, students learn the components and basic process of photosynthesis.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Gala Fiesta Jamboree
Lesson Description: Students explore the role of celebrations in diverse cultures, their class, and the local community. After interviewing community members about favorite celebrations, they research various cultures’ harvest festivals and prepare a celebration presentation for the class.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: From Apple Cores to Healthy Soil
Lesson Description: A composting experiment reveals to students how soil organisms, temperature, air, and water are able to decompose organic waste and enrich soil.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Buzzy, Buzzy Bee
Lesson Description: Students play a game in which they pretend to be honeybees and apple trees. In the process, they learn about plant pollination.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Breads Around the World
Lesson Description: Students learn the cultural and nutritional significance of bread throughout the world by working in groups to solve a logic-matrix activity.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Banking on Seeds
Lesson Description: The critical role that seeds play in the world is explored through creating a seed bank and comparing uses of seeds.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Till We or Won’t We?
Lesson Description: Students construct and perform experiments simulating rain on a field, investigating how soil preparation, tillage techniques, and mulches affect soil erosion and water runoff.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Create Your Own Recipe!
Lesson Description: Within small groups students will be guided to go through three large steps in creating their own recipe, which could be broken up into three different lessons, or one long lesson.… view full description & alignments
Download This Full Lesson: Create a Label
Lesson Description: Groups work in teams to select a value-added product, and design a marketing label.… view full description & alignments
