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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

COLORS ON THE FARM

For Teachers K - 1st
Students follow directions regarding what colors farm objects should be colored. They identify various items pictured on provided worksheet that can be found on a farm or are made from farm animals. Finally, they match each color crayon...
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Curated OER

Life on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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Lesson Plan
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Farm Animals

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to the types of animals on a farm and what happens on farm daily. As a class, they brainstorm a list of words that start with the letter f. They use the internet to view photos and listen to the sounds the animals...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sixth Grade Fractions

For Students 6th
In this fractions worksheet, 6th graders complete multiple choice questions about fraction values based on crops grown on an area of land at a farm. Students complete 15 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter i, and eat raisins that represent ants all to learn about insects. In this insects lesson plan, students also observe an ant farm and play follow the leader.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Build a Farm

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students play the role of an agricultural consultant. In groups, they develop ideas for an effective irrigation system for the new farm in Alaska. They report their ideas and findings to the class and complete a budget sheet for their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A Farm

For Teachers K - 1st
In this sight and animal words learning exercise, students fill in the shape boxes with the correct sight word. Students then write the beginning sound for each farm animal.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tracing "Go To The Farm"

For Students K - 1st
In this tracing worksheet, learners trace two sentences: "Go to the farm." and "Go to school." This is tracing only with no room for extra practice.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Edible GMOs?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The debate over genetically modified organisms is on! Young biologists imagine that they have been asked to choose which corn chips will be sold for a fundraiser, one made with GMOs or one without. This four-day lesson plan requires...
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Lesson Plan
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Farms And Cities

For Teachers Pre-K
Students differentiate the differences of living on a farm or in a city. They do this with the use of coloring pictures and have group discussion about each picture to identify characteristics and identify where the picture is from. The...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Rights Vs. Animal Welfare - Understanding the Issue

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners explore the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. They take a field trip to a farm to explore the producing animals for human use. After researching and collecting information from animal welfare/rights...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Town Along the Chesapeake Bay

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders make a drawing of a town along a river off of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Upon completion, they give an oral description of their town, including its houses, stores, businesses, farm area, government, etc., and will...
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Organizer
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Farms KWL

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this farm KWL worksheet, students record information on this graphic organizer. Students write what they know, want to learn and have learned about farms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy an World Humanitarian

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students research Herbert Hoover's life and how he became known as a "Great Humanitarian." Students use images and historic places in their research.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A Sheep Needs

For Students K - 1st
In this sheep worksheet, students color a picture of sheep. In the ten circles below it, students write or illustrate what a sheep needs. There are no directions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Effective Writing is More Than a Five Paragraph Essay

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Groups become experts in one aspect of the six traits of writing, prepare a PowerPoint presentation, jigsaw, and teach others about their trait. Writers then focus on these traits as they compose a persuasive essay about a person they...
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Lesson Plan
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Do Heroes Have to Wear a Cape?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young writers choose a person from American history, their community, or their family to use as the subject of a persuasive essay. The process begins with a discussion of the characteristics of a hero, the completion of a prewriting web,...
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WindWise Education

What Factors Influence Offshore Wind?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What is that out in the water on the horizon? Teams work together to study the coastline using maps to determine the best and worst locations to place an offshore wind farm. The teams then build a scale model wind farm to see what it...
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Lesson Plan
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History at Work

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study the history of farm machinery with a focus on farming in Ireland. In this farming history lesson plan, students study a picture of a farm object from the early twentieth century and complete a worksheet about the picture....
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Lesson Plan
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Wow! It's A Cow!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use the Internet to visit a dairy farm and watch the ins and outs of the every day life of a dairy cow. They survey products that are consumed that come from a cow. The students determine in what states cows would most likely...
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Lesson Plan
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Export-Import Game

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students recognize how international trade affects them as consumers and become familiar with basic agricultural crops grown in Kentucky. They identify items used in their daily lives and .heir place of origin and examine export/import...
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Lesson Plan
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Producer to Consumer Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners research about producers and consumers. They examine how products become available to consumers and participate in one of the activities listed such as: tour a farm or a factory, go on a scavenger hunt at a local store, or have...
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Lesson Plan
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Literature: Esperanza Rising

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and discuss the book, Esperanza Rising. After analyzing and identifying the novel's structural elements, they examine working conditions for migrant workers in the 1930s. As part of the lesson, students in groups choose...
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Unit Plan
Cassandra Reigel Whetstone

Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pair your reading of Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows with the questions and activities provided here. Learners answer questions about the text, create story maps, put together brochures, relate math to the story, practice...