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 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 use basic mathematical skills to solve problems related to the cost of food while integrating geography and nutrition to enhance learning. Students analyze grocery ads, assess the nutrition and cost of meals, and explore diets around the world.
Students recognize the names of different fruits and vegetables and describe why they are important.
Students read the novel Esperanza Rising written by Pam Munoz Ryan to examine the lives of migrant workers, agricultural economics, the impact of agriculture to rural communities, agricultural history, and how fruits and vegetables have been harvested historically and are harvested currently.
Students use food and farming as a basis for exploring the concepts of estimating and measuring using customary and metric units of measurements.
Students discover how agricultural commodities are transported from producers to consumers.
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 compare and contrast the differences between the Census of Agriculture and the decennial census.
Students categorize sources of basic agricultural products alphabetically.
Students discover that agricultural careers are interconnected and that agriculture influences many parts of their daily lives.