Milk or Meat? Beef or Dairy?
Students identify the differences between beef and dairy cattle and determine the commodities produced by each type of cattle.
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Author
Michele Reedy | North Carolina Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom
Standards
Texas Content Area Standards
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ELA: K.110.2.b.1
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking - - oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
- ELA: K.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas by speaking audibly and clearly using the conventions of language.
- ELA: K.1.D: The student is expected to work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules for discussion, including taking turns.
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ELA: K.110.2.b.5
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
- ELA: K.5.G: The student is expected to evaluate details to determine what is most important with adult assistance.
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ELA: 1.110.3.b.1
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking - - oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
- ELA: 1.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas about the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language.
- ELA: 1.1.D: The student is expected to work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules for discussion, including listening to others, speaking when recognized, and making appropriate contributions.
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ELA: 1.110.3.b.2
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking - - beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.
- ELA: 1.2.F: The student is expected to develop handwriting by printing words, sentences, and answers legibly leaving appropriate spaces between words.
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ELA: 1.110.3.b.6
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
- ELA: 1.6.G: The student is expected to evaluate details to determine what is most important with adult assistance.
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ELA: 2.110.4.b.1
Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking -- oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
- ELA: 2.1.C: The student is expected to share information and ideas that focus on the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language.
- ELA: 2.1.D: The student is expected to work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules for discussion, including listening to others, speaking when recognized, making appropriate contributions, and building on the ideas of others.
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ELA: 2.110.4.b.6
Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
- ELA: 2.6.G: The student is expected to evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
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Math: K.111.2.b.1
Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate mathematical understanding.
- Math: K.1.C: The student is expected to select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems.
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Math: K.111.2.b.3
Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to develop an understanding of addition and subtraction situations in order to solve problems.
- Math: K.3.A: The student is expected to model the action of joining to represent addition and the action of separating to represent subtraction.
- Math: K.3.B: The student is expected to solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and differences within 10.
- Math: K.3.C: The student is expected to explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding and subtracting within 10 using spoken words, concrete and pictorial models, and number sentences.
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Math: K.111.2.b.8
Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to collect and organize data to make it useful for interpreting information.
- Math: K.8.A: The student is expected to collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories.
- Math: K.8.B: The student is expected to use data to create real-object and picture graphs
- Math: K.8.C: The student is expected to draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs
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Math: 1.111.3.b.1
Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate mathematical understanding.
- Math: 1.1.C: The student is expected to select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems.
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Math: 1.111.3.b.3
Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to develop and use strategies for whole number addition and subtraction computations in order to solve problems.
- Math: 1.3.B: The student is expected to use objects and pictorial models to solve word problems involving joining, separating, and comparing sets within 20 and unknowns as any one of the terms in the problem such as 2 + 4 = [ ]; 3 + [ ] = 7; and 5 = -3.
- Math: 1.3.D: The student is expected to apply basic fact strategies to add and subtract within 20, including making 10 and decomposing a number leading to a 10.
- Math: 1.3.E: The student is expected to explain strategies used to solve addition and subtraction problems up to 20 using spoken words, objects, pictorial models, and number sentences.
- Math: 1.3.F: The student is expected to generate and solve problem situations when given a number sentence involving addition or subtraction of numbers within 20.
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Math: 1.111.3.b.8
Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to organize data to make it useful for interpreting information and solving problems.
- Math: 1.8.A: The student is expected to collect, sort, and organize data in up to three categories using models/representations such as tally marks or T-charts.
- Math: 1.8.B: The student is expected to use data to create picture and bar-type graphs.
- Math: 1.8.C: The student is expected to draw conclusions and generate and answer questions using information from picture and bar-type graphs.
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Math: 2.111.4.b.1
Mathematical process standards. The student uses mathematical processes to acquire and demonstrate mathematical understanding.
- Math: 2.1.C: The student is expected to select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems.
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Math: 2.111.4.b.4
Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to develop and use strategies and methods for whole number computations in order to solve addition and subtraction problems with efficiency and accuracy.
- Math: 2.4.A: The student is expected to recall basic facts to add and subtract within 20 with automaticity.
- Math: 2.4.C: The student is expected to solve one-step and multi-step word problems involving addition and subtraction within 1,000 using a variety of strategies based on place value, including algorithms.
- Math: 2.4.D: The student is expected to generate and solve problem situations for a given mathematical number sentence involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers within 1,000.
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Math: 2.111.4.b.10
Data analysis. The student applies mathematical process standards to organize data to make it useful for interpreting information and solving problems.
- Math: 2.10.A: The student is expected to explain that the length of a bar in a bar graph or the number of pictures in a pictograph represents the number of data points for a given category.
- Math: 2.10.B: The student is expected to organize a collection of data with up to four categories using pictographs and bar graphs with intervals of one or more.
- Math: 2.10.C: The student is expected to write and solve one-step word problems involving addition or subtraction using data represented within pictographs and bar graphs with intervals of one.
- Math: 2.10.D: The student is expected to draw conclusions and make predictions from information in a graph.
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Social Studies: K.113.11.c.13
Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:
- Social Studies: K.113.11.c.13.D: sequence and categorize information
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Social Studies: K.113.11.c.14
Social studies skills. The student communicates in oral and visual forms. The student is expected to:
- Social Studies: K.113.11.c.14.C: communicate information visually, orally, or in writing based on knowledge and experiences in social studies
- Social Studies: K.113.11.c.14.D: create and interpret visuals, including pictures and maps
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Social Studies: 1.113.12.c.16
Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:
- Social Studies: 1.113.12.c.16.D: sequence and categorize information
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Social Studies: 1.113.12.c.17
Social studies skills. The student communicates in oral, visual, and written forms. The student is expected to:
- Social Studies: 1.113.12.c.17.C: communicate information visually, orally, or in writing based on knowledge and experiences in social studies
- Social Studies: 1.113.12.c.17.D: create and interpret visual and written material
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Social Studies: 2.113.13.c.15
Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:
- Social Studies: 2.113.13.c.15.D: interpret oral, visual, and print material by sequencing, categorizing, identifying the main idea, predicting, comparing, and contrasting
- Social Studies: 2.113.13.c.15.F: create written and visual material such as stories, maps, and graphic organizers to express ideas