Download This Lesson: Animals & Wild Blueberries
Brief Description: Students will explore the interaction of several animals with the wild blueberry including, but not limited to, honey-bees, bumblebees, black bears and pest insects.
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.
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.
Perc Through the Pores
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Brief Description: By pretending to become soil particles and water droplets, students simulate soil particle sizes and their pore space.
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.
Don’t Use It All Up!
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Brief Description: Students participate in a sponge demonstration to discover that people are consumers of resources and explore methods of conserving those resources.
In Harmony
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Brief Description: Students develop mapmaking, map reading, and graph reading skills as they learn the capabilities and limitations of our land resources by using a soil survey. In the process students begin to develop the knowledge needed to build a foundation for understanding the complex issues involved in making land use decisions in harmony with the land’s capability.