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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:
Parameters for Essential Instruction Public Domain Lessons
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PreK-2 |
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6-8 |
9-Diploma |
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English Language Arts |
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A. Reading |
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A3 |
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B. Writing |
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B3* |
B3* |
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C. Research |
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C1 |
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Mathematics |
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B. Data – Data Analysis |
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Grade 4: B2 |
Grade 7: B1a |
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Science & Technology |
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B. Skills/traits of Scientific Inquiry |
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B1*, B1d |
B1*, B1d |
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Social Studies |
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A. Process, Knowledge & Skills |
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A1c* |
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