Horse and Rider: The Pony Express (Grades 3-5)
Students investigate the importance of the Pony Express to the settlement and expansion of the American West by mapping Pony Express stations.
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Horse and Rider: The Pony Express (Grades 6-8)
Students investigate the importance of the Pony Express to the settlement and expansion of the American West by mapping Pony Express stations.
How Does Your Garden Grow? (Grades 3-5)
Students synthesize what they know about soils, plants, and the environment to plan a garden, present their plans, and explain why they made the decisions that they did.
How Does Your Garden Grow? (Grades K-2)
Students discover the needs of a seed to germinate and the needs of a plant to grow while exploring the life stages of a flowering plant.
How Weather Impacts Farms
Students explore different types of weather and discover how weather conditions can impact farms.
How to Grow a Monster: The Needs of a Zucchini Plant
Students read How to Grow a Monster, describe the needs of a zucchini plant, identify the structure and function of zucchini plant parts, grow classroom zucchini plants, and experiment with different environments and growing conditions.
Hunger and Malnutrition (Grades 3-5)
Students investigate the importance of eating a variety of foods in order to get all the nutrients needed to be healthy, explore diets around the world using Peter Menzel's Hungry Planet Family Food Portraits, and discuss the scope of the problems of hunger and malnutrition using the World Food Programme HungerMap Live.
Hunger and Malnutrition (Grades 6-8)
Students will learn about the importance of eating a variety of foods in order to get all the nutrients needed to be healthy, explore diets around the world using Peter Menzel's Hungry Planet Family Food Portraits, and discuss the scope of the problems of hunger and malnutrition using the World Food Programme HungerMap Live.
Hungry Pests
This lesson teaches about invasive species: what they are, the threats they pose, and damages they can cause. Students will identify individual pests and invasive species and discover what they threaten, where they live, and the pathways hungry pests use to enter new locations. Finally students move into action and explore what they can do to prevent the spread of invasive species.
In Search of Essential Nutrients (Grades 9-12)
Students explore the meaning of essential elements and use periodic tables to compare the elements that are essential to people and plants. Students discover where in the environment plants obtain each of their essential elements.
In a Nutshell
Students explore pecan production from farm to fork, simulate the process of grafting, and create a nutritious snack.
Increasing Food Production with Precision Agriculture
This hands-on lesson teaches students how precision agriculture uses geographic information systems (GIS) to help farmers and manufacturers make smart, efficient, and responsible decisions about how and when they plant, grow, irrigate, harvest, and transport crops.