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Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin (Grades 3-5)

Students compare agricultural inventors and inventions by creating a timeline of important dates, explore cattle flight zones, and work as agricultural engineers to design a corral system that uses the research of Dr. Temple Grandin.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
2.5 hours
Updated
January 24, 2023

Background

Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Oklahoma Agriculture in the Classroom

Acknowledgements

Some information in the Background Agricultural Connections and Activity 3 were adapted from the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom lesson Build it Better .

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Science
    • 3-5-ETS1: Engineering Design
      • 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
      • 3-5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
    • 4-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
      • 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.