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Thank You Farmers

Students discover what farmers do and how they help their community.

Grades
K – 2
Estimated Time
30 minutes
Updated
February 28, 2024

Background

Lesson Activities

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.
  • 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.