ELA – E Listening and Speaking

January 7, 2013

There’s A Wiser Way

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Focus Areas: Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Science, Language Arts, Graphic Arts

Focus Skills: summarizing, understanding the main idea

Objectives

To illustrate an understanding of IPM
To recognize the need for reduction of chemical applications in pest management

Essential Question

How can Integrated Pest Management reduce the use of chemicals in managing pests?

Essential Understandings

IPM seeks to understand the lifestyle of a pest and determine the pest population before taking action.
IPM applies the most environmentally sound methods to pest management.

Background

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January 7, 2013

Brief Description: Students will research, observe, and read for information on pest control, and nature’s food chain. Using this information students will understand and recognize that bats and other natural predators help control insect population and in doing so will find a deeper understanding of nature’s food chain.

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January 7, 2013

Nature’s Bug Zappers

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Brief Description: Students will learn about natural pest management to protect from overpopulation. They will be able to look at the advantages and disadvantages of different types of insects and learn about their life cycles. Students will also be able to act out different scenarios involving insects.

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January 7, 2013

Pushy Plants

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Brief Description: Students will learn that all living things depend on plants and that plants that “overgrow” will threaten their habitat. They will also learn about invasive and endangered species of plants. Using their new vocabulary, students will play games and talk about methods to control these species.

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June 29, 2012

Soil Is Not Trivial

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Brief Description: Using facts about the Dust Bowl, students write questions and playa trivia activity focused around the establishment of a national soil conservation program and the importance of soil. Students then explore and/or develop a plan to address a local soil conservation issue.

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June 29, 2012

Step By Step

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Brief Description: Students study the sequence of production to discover the resources required and the variety of careers involved to take a raw food from the farm to the consumer.

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June 27, 2012

Let’s Celebrate!

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Brief Description: Students explore in their own lives and in the lives of others the role of celebrations and important foods involved, with a focus on corn.

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June 13, 2012

From Sea to Shining Sea

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Brief Description: Students complete a United States map showing the locations of the states, their capitals, and the top five agricultural commodities in each state. They then identify and graph the top five commodities nationally after compiling the information.

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