Sorghum at School: The Sorghum Story
Students will investigate sorghum, including the stages of plant growth, production in the United States, health benefits, geography, and positive environmental impacts.
Background
Lesson Activities
Recommended Companion Resources
Credits
Author
Sorghum Checkoff
Sources
- https://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/whats-whole-grain/ancient-grains
- https://www.sorghumcheckoff.com/sorghum-101/
- https://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/health-studies-health-benefits/whole-grains-important-source-essential-nutrients
- https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/74/11/690/2281653?login=false
- https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/2/216
- https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/8/1921
- https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov
- https://www.myplate.gov/eat-healthy/food-group-gallery#grains%20
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sorghum-announced-as-newest-addition-to-usda-food-buying-guide-301589647.html
- https://healthyeatingresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/her-heg-summary.pdf
- https://www.sorghumcheckoff.com/sorghum-101/around-the-globe/
- https://sorghumgrowers.com/2011/07/21/ten-things-you-may-not-know-about-sorghum/
Standards
National Content Area Standards
- Social Studies – Geography
- Geography Standard 1 (Grades 3-4): How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.
- Objective 1: Properties and functions of geographic representations—such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualizations.
- Geography Standard 15 (Grades 3-4): How physical systems affect human systems.
- Objective 1: The physical environment provides opportunities for and imposes constraints on human activities.
- Geography Standard 1 (Grade 5): How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.
- Objective 4: The use of geographic representations to ask and answer geographic questions.
- Geography Standard 15 (Grade 5): How physical systems affect human systems.
- Objective 1: The characteristics of a physical environment provide opportunities for and impose constraints on human activities.
- Geography Standard 1 (Grades 3-4): How to use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to understand and communicate information.
- Science
- 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.
- 5-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- 5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
- 4-LS1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes