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June 27, 2012

It All Starts With A

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Brief Description: Students conduct surveys to learn what agriculture provides to people. They organize, simplify, and communicate their findings using tallies, frequency tables, and histograms.

 

OBJECTIVES

The student will:

  • gather data from a survey he or she conducts about why agriculture is important to people and will use three different ways to communicate his or her findings;
  • read, interpret and communicate information through tables and graphs;
  • describe several reasons why agriculture is important to him or her and to others;
  • discuss some factors that make agriculture the nation’s leading industry; and
  • list ways in which he or she is involved in agriculture each day.

ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME

Session One: One hour.
Session Two: 30 minutes, with additional time to survey another group.
Session Three: One hour.

Project Food, Land & People Alignment to Maine Learning Results:
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Discipline & Standard

Grade Span/Grade

 

PreK-2

3-5

6-8

9-Diploma

English Language Arts

 

 

 

 

   A. Reading

 

A3

 

 

   B. Writing

 

B3*

B3*

 

   C. Research

 

C1

 

 

Mathematics

 

 

 

 

   B. Data – Data Analysis

 

Grade 4: B2

Grade 7: B1a

 

Science & Technology

 

 

 

 

   B. Skills/traits of Scientific Inquiry

 

B1*, B1d

B1*, B1d

 

Social Studies

 

 

 

 

   A. Process, Knowledge & Skills

 

A1c*

 

 

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