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What is Farming? video
Agriculture in Our Daily Lives
Overview
This is a lesson for elementary age children to help understand the importance of farming for our source of food.
Where We Get Our Food
This is a lesson for elementary aged students to help introduce and gain a better understanding of the importance of agriculture in our daily lives.
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A cute and informative video that is a very good introduction to this unit is "What is Farming?/Young Explorers" from PBS. https://scetv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/261c4139-55d0-4156-a3f3-36f5cc29997a/what-is-farming-young-explorers/
As an activity -- teacher demonstrates making muffins with the students. As each ingredient is added, discuss where we get each ingredient. For example, when the egg is added, ask the children where we get eggs and discuss that eggs come from chickens. After the muffins are cooked, let the children eat them. If milk is served as a beverage, discuss that milk comes from cows. Discuss the importance of farms for providing our food.
To incorporate music, sing "Old McDonald had a Farm" with the children.
Read The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons to the class.
To incorporate math in this lesson, use Bean Bar Graph (PreK - 1st Grade) Agricultural STEM Actvity Author: Columbia Gorge STEM Hub License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike link: https://oercommons.org/courses/bean-bar-graph-prek-1st-grade-agricultural-stem-actvity