Lessons & Resources for Educators
Download This Lesson: People Need Plants
Brief Description: Students will be able to identify parts of a plant and recognize the importance of plants in our daily diet. They will learn new vocabulary and use these in activities pertaining to their own eating habits.
Download This Lesson: CAUTION: Chemicals
Brief Description: Students will use this lesson to understand cause and effect by seeing how chemicals can spread through soil as well as endanger plants and animals. They will conduct an experiment, observe, and draw conclusions as to why chemicals should not be the first choice when it comes to controlling pests.
Download This Lesson: More Than Just Dust Bunnies
Brief Description: Students will learn about dust and its components using slides and microscopes. After reading about the history of the microscope students will look at dust, small organisms in dust and dust allergies using wet and dry slides. Using pictures and graphs students will present their findings.
Download This Lesson: Ant Antics
Brief Description: Students will use the Scientific Method to examine alternative pest control methods. They will test the effect of organic controls on ants versus chemicals.
Download This Lesson: Pesticide Wise
Brief Description: Students will learn about the selection, handling, storage and disposal of pesticides. They will read about the background of pesticide use and the harm it can pose. Students will look at new vocabulary and the information given on labels to find important information.
Download This Lesson: There’s a Wiser Way
Focus Areas: Integrated Pest Management (IPM); Science, Language Arts, Graphic Arts
Focus Skills: summarizing, understanding the main idea
Objectives
Essential Question
How can Integrated Pest Management reduce the use of chemicals in managing pests?
Essential Understandings
Background
IPM offers a scientific approach as well as an alternative to … view full description & alignments
Download The Lesson: Soil Is Not Trivial
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.
Download This Lesson: Step By Step
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.
Download This Lesson: Perc Through The Pores
Brief Description: By pretending to become soil particles and water droplets, students simulate soil particle sizes and their pore space.
Download This Lesson: It All Starts With A
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.
