Homegrown in Your State: Fruits and Vegetables
Students explore their state's specialty crops, discover how food gets from the farm to the table, and discuss the importance of eating fruits and vegetables every day.
Background
Lesson Activities
Recommended Companion Resources
Credits
Author
Angie Greer | Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom
Acknowledgements
"What Am I?" game adapted from pbhfoundation.org.
Standards
National Content Area Standards
- Social Studies – Economics
- Economics Standard 2 (Grades K-2): Decision Making
- Objective (Grades K-2): Make effective decisions as consumers, producers, savers, investors, and citizens.
- Economics Standard 2 (Grades K-2): Decision Making
- Social Studies – Geography
- Geography Standard 11 (Grades K-2): The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface.
- Objective 1: People engage in economic activities, such as producing goods and offering services, in order to earn a living.
- Objective 2: Some locations are better suited than others to provide certain goods and services.
- Objective 4: Networks of transportation and communications are used to move information, products, and people.
- Geography Standard 11 (Grades K-2): The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on Earth's surface.
- Social Studies – History
- NCSS 7 (Grades K-2): Production, Distribution, and Consumption
- Objective 8: The goods and services produced in the market and those produced by the government.
- NCSS 7 (Grades K-2): Production, Distribution, and Consumption