Lessons

Students explore how genes affect important traits such as growth, reproduction, disease resistance, and behavior and discover the responsibilities of an animal geneticist.

Students identify how the basic needs of a growing chick are met during egg incubation, diagram the parts of an egg, and hatch eggs in class.

Students investigate the physical change that occurs as milk is turned into butter.

Students investigate how wheat is grown and processed into flour and other wheat products and create wheat puppets to perform a play.

Students identify the components of soil and demonstrate that soil contains air and water.

Students examine how pests affect other living organisms and the environment and identify how pests are managed in agricultural settings.

Students observe soil changes in relationship to depth and identify factors associated with soil formation.

Students observe the change of water states as it moves through the water cycle.

Students examine the basic geography of a watershed, how water flows through the system, and how people can impact the quality of our water.

Students work in teams to play a game in which they answer true/false questions about swine and then research and develop questions of their own.

Students observe how plants respond to gravity by germinating soybeans in a CD case and rotating the case as they grow.

Students compare agricultural inventors and inventions by creating a timeline of important dates, explore cattle flight zones, and work as agricultural engineers to design a corral system that uses the research of Dr. Temple Grandin.