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.
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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.
- NCSS 3 (Grades 3-5): People, Places, and Environments
- 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.
- 3-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes