Lessons

Students identify foods grown in a garden, observe various types of seed, and grow their own "milk jug" garden. Students listen to the Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter and investigate produce that is grown in gardens or on farms.

Using tomatoes as a theme, students practice the math and science skills of estimating, measuring, counting, graphing and sequencing.

Students explore basic information about pigs and the products they provide.

Students investigate the sources of different foods by differentiating between foods originating from plants and foods originating from animals.

Students identify the basic needs of plants and fish and engineer, assemble, maintain, and observe a small-scale aquaponics system that meets plant and fish needs.

Students determine the importance and complexity of the Earth’s soil.

Students investigate where food comes from, the parts of plants that we eat, and the difference between fruits and vegetables.

Students explore a variety of vegetables that can be stored through the colder months, including roots, alliums, cole crops, and winter squash and compare and contrast how families store food now with how they stored food long ago.

Students evaluate the function of plant stems and identify edible stems belonging to certain plants.