Background
Lesson Activities
Recommended Companion Resources
Credits
Author
Mandi Bottoms and Molly Wong | California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom
Acknowledgements
- Engage section adapted from the lesson Right This Very Minute by Bekka Israelsen, Utah Agriculture in the Classroom.
Standards
National Content Area Standards
- Social Studies – History
- NCSS 3 (Grades K-2): People, Places, and Environments
- Objective 3: Physical and human characteristics of the school, community, state, and region, and the interactions of people in these places with the environment.
- NCSS 3 (Grades K-2): People, Places, and Environments
- Science
- K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity
- K-ESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
- Pre-K Reasoning and Problem-Solving P-SCI 4: Child asks a question, gathers information, and makes predictions.
- P-SCI 4-2: Gathers information about a question by looking at books or discussing prior knowledge and observations.
- K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity