Lessons

Students discover that agricultural careers are interconnected and that agriculture influences many parts of their daily lives.

Students read a story about our nation's first survey of agriculture, discuss reasons for counting things, and gain practice by sorting and counting a variety of objects related to agriculture.

Students discover the changes that take place in a walnut orchard through the seasons by reading and discussing a story about a walnut farm.

Students explore soil textures and investigate the connections between soil texture, water, and plant growth.

Students explore living and nonliving things, determine how nonliving resources help sustain plant life, and experiment with visual arts techniques through an examination of texture in the natural world. Activities in this lesson include collecting and categorizing items from the natural environment, creating seed and soil mosaics, making clay imprints, and coloring cloth with plant materials.

Students discover how fresh fruits can be dried and preserved by participating in an activity where they make raisins by drying grapes.