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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.

Grades
3 – 5
Estimated Time
1 hour
Updated
September 29, 2023

Background

Lesson Activities

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.
  • 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.