This Activity Book accompanies Blossom's Big Job, a story about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit.
A guided reading lesson to accompany "Blossom's Big Job DOWNLOAD"! In this charming storybook, a hard working bee will encourage trust and perseverance while your students learn about pollination and how honey is made. Companion resources: "Blossom's Big Job Activity Book" "Blossom's Big Job Read Along"
Interactive Storybook Lesson: Blossom’s Big Job is about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit. Readers follow Blossom as she helps collect nectar for her hive and works hard to pollinate her flowers.
Enjoy a fun read along of this charming storybook about a hard working bee that will encourage trust and perseverance while your students learn about pollination and how honey is made. Be sure to also download "Blossom's Big Job DOWNLOAD", "Blossom's Big Job Guided Reading Lesson" and "Blossom's Big Job Activity Book".
Blossom’s Big Job is about a busy honey bee on a mission to pollinate her flowers until they mature into fruit. Readers follow Blossom as she helps collect nectar for her hive and works hard to pollinate her flowers.
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.
In an average year, Canada mourns the loss of over 100 adults and children due to agricultural fatalities. Canada’s agricultural sector is one of the most hazardous industries in which to work.
Producer groups, non-profits, government bodies, industry and researchers formed what is now the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) in 1993 to respond to issues of health and safety in agriculture.
As a national, non-profit organization, CASA promotes farm safety in the agricultural sector. CASA works with partners in government, business, and farming organizations across the country to support initiatives that equip producers, their families and their workers with the information and tools needed to make farms a safe place to live, work and play.
CASA is governed by a seven-person Board of Directors drawn from a membership base that includes individuals, organizations, governments and businesses.
Visit Agriculture in the Classroom Canada's Educator Matrix to search through 200+ curriculum-linked resources that focus on agriculture and food.
Students will explore the process of biofuel production and how it relates to food chains.
Students will explore the parts of a corn plant and their uses.
Ideas for integrating food into the classroom from guest blogger Sarah Anderson.
*Making personal placemats
*Narrative Writing
*Research Paper
*Mapping Foods
*Podcasts
Students will learn about issues concerning soil and water and how farmers use science to help conserve these resources.
Students will sequence photographs to tell the story of Seed to Cereal, while learning about corn production, beef production, ethanol production, and food production in general.
Students will compare and contrast corn and soybean plants, the growth and development, and how each are used for different purposes and make different products that all of us use daily. Students will also learn and identify the parts of a monocot and dicot and measure growth.
Students will work to solve math problems relating to volume, while learning about corn production in Iowa.
Students will learn about the sources and healthfulness of several common foods.
Students will be able to understand how heredity affects agricultural decisions regarding wanted traits in animals, and will understand that DNA contains genes which carry traits from generation to generation.
Students will learn the importance of corn production to Iowa and the nation, understand what a by-product is and how they are used, and discover the weights and sizes of different measurements of corn.
This comprehensive website contains a great deal of information and there are many curricular connections to grades 3 – 6 Science, Social Studies, and English Language Arts.
Be sure to check out the "Past", "Evolution", "Present" and "Future" tabs along the top to access LOTS of great ag resources and information!
Among other things, the site offers:
- Simple Lessons - Depending on the sections your students study and activities undertaken, different outcomes may be met. There are several ‘grab and go’ activities for students, available in both pdf and word documents.
- Brain Buster Activities - These crossword puzzles, word searches, word scrambles, matching pages, and colouring pages are great when time is limited because they can be easily stopped and started! They will challenge students to problem-solve and test their knowledge.
- Quizzes - The quizzes here are generally the same quizzes as the students will find on the web pages. They are available for each section on this website so that students progress can be tracked if you wish!