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Wild Rice

Students explore the life cycle of wild rice, compare the steps of the traditional Native wild rice harvest with a cultivated wild rice harvest, and create their own wild rice bowls.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
50 minutes
Updated
January 31, 2023

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Lesson Activities

Credits

Author

Uli Koester | Midwest Food Connection

Standards

National Content Area Standards

  • Social Studies – History
    • NCSS 3 (Grades 3-5): People, Places, and Environments
      • Objective 1: The theme of people, places, and environments involves the study of location, place, and the interactions of people with their surroundings.
  • Science
    • 3-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
      • 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
    • 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.