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Farm to Table: How Agriculture Connects Us
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This resource will allow you to teach the concept of Farm to Table to your students as well as providing them with the understanding of the agricultural industry and how it connects us all together, and how it plays a role in their everyday lives.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Jessica Bunkelman
Sandy Benton
Date Added:
05/28/2024
Growing a Future
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Agriculture/environmental science unit for high school students focuses on the make-up of soil, the critters that live in it, and how farmers help to protect the soil through different management practices. The five-lesson unit continues with the physiology of plants and different types of both typical and specialty crops grown in Wisconsin. Plants were also grown in the classroom for a semester-long project with a hydroponic system.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Sandy Benton
Catherine Agnew
Date Added:
08/01/2024
Maple Syrup Production: Tapping, Collection, Sales, and Marketing
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Maple Grove Charter School, Athens School District, is a Grades K-5 elementary school located the heart of the rural Town of Hamburg. The school takes its name from the school forest on its site. Built in 1904, the school has annual tradition of tapping the maple trees. What started as a first grade classroom project has expanded as students from each grade level identify, tap, and collect sap from two trees. Unit plans have been created for each grade level to address agriculture, science, literacy, social studies, math, and environmental literacy standards. While the sap collecing routines remain relevatively constant each year, the learning opportunties have been differentiated by grade level so that students are always learning new content and skills.In the following unit plan discussion readers will learn about the schoolwide project from the perspective of teachers in Grades 1 and 5.Students in Grade 1 learn about maple tree identification and the traditional and modern tools and technologies employed in sap collection and syrup production. Their fifth grade counterparts continue to grow in their understanding of the tapping, collection, and production processes, and take on the role of entrepreneurs as they develop their brand and market the finished pure maple syrup.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
English Language Arts
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability
Social Studies
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Sandy Benton
Treva Etten
Emily Szutkowski
Date Added:
06/04/2024
What’s Under Your Feet?
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Learning about our natural resources and how to maintain and improve them is a common thread throughout the K-6th grades. In fifth grade, students learn about soil composition, soil health, how to regenerate soil, and how to test the soil.  Based on the soil test and composition determination/s, we then discuss why we received the results we did, what the results mean, and why different samples from the same geographical area may vary.They learn about soil depletion, the importance of regeneration and management of the soil, and whether to use natural fertilizers or synthetic bagged fertilizers to build up the soil and for plant health. During the process, they learn what N, P, and K mean and how to read the fertilizer bag.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Sandy Benton
Kim Pokorny
Date Added:
06/03/2024
Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom: 4th Grade Essay Contest Writing = Strawberries
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Each spring Roosevelt fourth graders embrace the challenge of writing an essay for the Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom essay competition for 4th and 5th graders. It has become a tradition at our school and many older siblings recall writing the essay for their particular topic when they were in fourth grade!  We have covered topics from John Deere & maple syrup to soybeans and farmer’s markets.  This year we were excited to study Wisconsin’s fruits, specifically strawberries!The annual contest falls in the third trimester where we focus on Expository writing and completing a 5 paragraph essay with a simple bibliography.

Subject:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability
Health Education
Life Science
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Sandy Benton
Carmen DeKok
Date Added:
06/03/2024