Students will be familiarized with the importance of agriculture and how it touches their everyday lives.
Students will explore the many careers in agriculture by playing the agriculture version of the popular game, Pictionary.
Students will use livestock weight gain data to construct and interpret line graphs.
Students will learn the life cycle of a honey bee and their importance to agriculture through pollination.
Students will understand the importance of bees and the basics of pollination.
Description: Students will explore genes and heredity in the context of beef cattle. They will discover probability and be introduced to beef breeds.
Description: Students will learn and exercise knowledge of the uses of by-products of common Midwestern crops.
Students will explore the parts of a corn plant and their uses.
The students will be able to identify food groups and healthy food options.
These four lessons accompany the FARMLAND Film and dive deeper into issue discussed in the film like Animal Welfare, Farm Risk, Farm Size, and GMOs. There are also facilitated discussion questions. Students will learn about the care of livestock on farms and consider regulations and government’s role in the industry. Students will understand farm-related risk and how it relates to the risk in everyday life. Students will explore farm size in the U.S. and how farmers are able to feed a growing population. Students will gain a basic understanding of genetically engineered crops and compare conventional and organic farming practices.
Students will gain a basic understanding of who farmers are and what they do.
Students will show understanding that humans are dependent on plants and animals for many purposes and that many of these resources come from agriculture.
Students will understand that many products come from plants and animals on farms.
Students will practice math skills while becoming familiar with the uses of Iowa corn.
Students will be introduced to the basics of agriculture through exploring books.
Students will explore, through hands-on experiments, the concepts of liquid and solid.
Students will understand that farmers have to complete many different types of tasks for their jobs and why those tasks are important.
Students will learn plant, seed, and flower parts and their functions.
The objective of this lesson would be to make the students aware of the renewable fuels available for their own homes.
Students will compare tools used in a school garden and those used in modern agriculture.
In this lesson, students will observe corn and soybean seeds as they germinate and compare monocots and dicots.
The students will be able to determine similarities and differences between two types of soil and information presented in two nonfiction texts. The students will be able to use the scientific process to observe, question, and form a hypothesis on why the two soil types are different
Students gain familiarity with the processes of raising and creating alternative renewable materials for fuel, specifically ethanol.
Students will explore humans’ demands on the world’s water supply and discuss ways to conserve it.
Students will show understanding that humans are dependent on plants and animals for many purposes and that many of these resources come from agriculture.
Students will observe and record weather conditions for one week.
Students will consider the nutritional value of various processed foods.
Students will observe how plants increase in mass due to photosynthesis and apply ideas of the conservation of mass.
Students will learn and review common facts about Iowa agriculture, including historical figures, scientific facts, and agriculture related careers.