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NYS Agriculture In The Classroom
- Introduction
- Student Workbook
- Language Arts
- Pumpkin Patch - The students will learn words relating to pumpkins, compile simple sentences about pumpkins, and describe foods made from pumpkins.
- Language Skills: grammar
- Reading: vocabulary
- Composition: to describe
- Life Science: 1A - 2.4
- Butterflies- After completing these activities students will: describe the life cycle of the butterfly/moth, correctly identify which insect is a moth and which is a butterfly, learn new vocabulary as it relates to butterflies, moths, and caterpillars.
- Reading: for content and vocabulary
- Language: grammar
- Life Science: 1A - 2.41
- The New Mac Donald's Farm- Students will learn that agriculture is no longer "Old MacDonald's Farm"
- Reading: vocabulary
- Language: grammar
- Social Studies: change
- Rice - The student will be able to describe how rice grows at the end of the lesson.
- Reading: for comprehension, vocabulary, and titling
- Social Studies: technology (economic pp 56, 58), culture (economic p. 60), change (historic p 68), empathy (economic p 62)
- Art
- Science: 1A -1.3, 1.4
- Poultry - The students will complete the puzzle to discover a hen by either: coloring the correct categories of words or coloring the correct pictures according the color key.
- Reading: Vocabulary, following instructions
- Art: color
- Mathematics
- Animals and Their Young - Your students will understand that animals produce different numbers of offspring and develop correct vocabulary of animals and their young.
- Mathematics: counting, number concepts, standard units of measurement
- Life Science: 1A - 2.4, 2.5
- Physical Science: 1C - 2.2, 2.3
- Reading: for content
- Egg Math - This is a continuation of Animals and Their Young, they will use math facts while learning about eggs and chicks.
- Mathematics: counting, number concepts, standard units of measurement, addition
- Life Science: 1A - 2.4, 2.5
- Reading: for content
- Apples - Students will understand that young apple trees produce fewer apples than mature trees
- Mathematics: number concepts, renaming, story problems, reading/listening for content, sequencing
- Physical Science: 2.3
- Life Science: 1.3, 1.4, 2.5
- Social Studies: change
- Time - The students will compare time, as they know it, with growing plants and seasons, they will be able to read a numberline/timeline of plant growth or life cycle.
- Mathematics: comparison of time, story problems, number lines
- Listening: predicting
- Reading: predicting
- Life Science: 1A-1.3, 1.4, 1.43, 2.5
- Physical Science: 1C - 2.2, 2.3
- Evergreen Tree - Students will effectively use a ruler to make measurements, draw lines, and create triangles, and a rectangle, these shapes will then be assembled into a tree.
- Mathematics: standard units of measurement, shape, symmetry, shape fitting, position, patterns
- Life Science: 1A - 1.1, 1.5
- Art
- Science
- Egg People- At the end of this lesson, the students will have grown grass (for hair) to complete the 'egg people'.
- Life Science: 1A - 1.2, 1.4; 1C- 1.1
- Physical Science
- Art
- Insect Anatomy - Students will make their own insects with anatomically correct eyes, antennae, wings, and legs.
- Life Science: 2.1, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7
- Art
- Butterfly-Life Cycle - Students will understand that there is a science which studies insects, describe the life cycle of butterflies/moths, be able to answer the question... where do butterflies/moths come from?
- Life Science: 1A-2.41, 2.1
- Art
- Pumpkins
- Life Science: 1A-1.3, 1.4, 2.5; 1B-1
- Social Studies: change (historic p 68), culture (economic p 60), empathy (economic p 62)
- Language Arts: vocabulary
- Art
- Mathematics: counting
- Poultry and Eggs - Students will understand that the egg is very complex, plants can be used as dyes, materials can dissolve an eggshell, how to tell if an egg is raw or cooked, items float if they are lighter than what they float in.
- Life Science: 1A - 2.4, 1B - 1.3
- Physical Science: 1C - 1.11, 1.5; 11C - 1.11, 1.12, 1.2; 1D-1
- Science: The Scientific Method
- Social Studies: technology (economic pp 56, 58); interdependence (economic pp 56, 58, 62)
- Physical Education
- Listening and Speaking - predicting
- Social Studies
- Yesterday or Today - At the end of this lesson, students be able to describe that tools and ways change over time.
- Social Studies: Change (historic p. 68)
- Life Science: 1A - 2.5
- Tomatoes and Potatoes - Students will be able to describe where some foods made of tomatoes and pumpkins come from, as well as identify that potatoes grow underground, learn new words relating to tomatoes and potatoes, as well as compile simple sentences about tomatoes, potatoes and foods made from them.
- Social Studies:
- technology (economic pp 56, 58)
- people use tools to meet their needs and wants
- interdependence (economic pp. 56, 58, 62)
- scarcity (economic p. 58)
- culture (economic p. 60)
- empathy (economic p. 62)
- Life Science
- 1A - 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
- 1A - 2.4, 2.5
- 1B - 1
- Language Skills: grammar
- Reading: vocabulary and for comfort
- Potatoes and Potato Stamps - Students will be able to describe where potatoes come from, outline how potatoes are grown, and list foods made from potatoes.
- Social Studies
- technology (economic pp. 56, 58)
- interdependence (economic pp. 56, 58, 62)
- scarcity (economic p. 58)
- culture (economic p. 60)
- empathy (economic p. 62)
- Reading: comprehension and vocabulary
- Life Science: 1A - 1.3, 1.4
- Eggs - Students will be able to describe where eggs come from, trace the path from hen to table, and identify foods made with eggs.
- Social Studies
- Technology (economic pp. 56, 58)
- interdependence (economic pp. 56, 58, 62)
- Animal Products - Students will be able to list animals and a product they produce and correctly use vocabulary words in relation to animals.
- Social Studies
- Technology (economic pp. 56, 58)
- Interdependence (economic pp. 56, 58, 62)
- Scarcity (economic p. 58)
- Culture (economic p. 60)
- Life Science
- 1A - 2.5, 1B - 3
- Reading: Vocabulary
