Lessons

Students determine that although plants and people obtain nutrients differently, they both need proper amounts of nutrients to grow and be healthy.

Students observe the growth and development of seeds and explore what conditions are necessary for seeds to germinate.

Students categorize the foods they eat, explore healthy eating habits, and investigate the MyPlate food campaign.

Students explore simple and complex machines and discover how they are used in agriculture.

Students identify the differences between needs and wants, goods and services, and producers and consumers by participating in a grocery store simulation, exploring the source of grocery store items, and designing their own products to sell.

Students make observations about historic tools used on a dairy farm to store and process milk into cheese and butter.

Students recognize the names of different fruits and vegetables and describe why they are important.

The students examine the functions of flowers and determine that some flowers are edible.

Students investigate the functions of roots, recognize the difference between a tap and fibrous root system, and identify the roots of some plants as edible.

Students explore how soybeans are grown by farmers, examine seed anatomy through a seed dissection activity, and observe the germination of a soybean plant.

Students identify and explain unique properties of eggs based on scientific investigations and write a book to explain what they have learned.

Students categorize sources of basic agricultural products alphabetically.