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Full of Beans: Henry Ford Grows a Car

Students identify the variety of soybeans uses for human consumption, livestock feed, and industrial products, explain how key historical events affected soybean production in the United States, and create a bioplastic made from soybeans.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
2 hours
Updated
March 17, 2023

Background

Lesson Activities

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – History
    • History Era 8 Standard 1B (Grade 5): American life changed during the 1930s.
      • Objective 1: Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl on American farm owners, tenants, and sharecroppers.
    • History Standard 8A (Grades 3-4): The development of technological innovations, the major scientists and inventors associated with them and their social and economic effects.
      • Objective 6: Identify and describe the significant achievements of important scientists and inventors.
    • History Era 8 Standard 3C (Grade 5): The effects of World War II at home.
      • Objective 1: Explain how the United States mobilized its economic and military resources during World War II.
  • Science
    • 5-PS1: Matter and Its Interactions
      • 5-PS1-2: Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
      • 5-PS1-3: Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.
      • 5-PS1-4: Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.