September, 2008

Wheat Sprouts
Time to plant winter wheat
Oklahoma farmers start planting winter wheat
this month. As a class plant a plot of wheat to
harvest at the end of the school year.
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Prepare
a bed like you would any flower bed.
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Students scatter the wheat and water it.
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Students observe the wheat growing and record their observations
in a journal.
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Students leave the wheat alone during the winter and start
watering again in the spring.
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Students may also grow wheat in pots in a sunny window.
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Students keep the pots of wheat watered and cut it back
occasionally with scissors.
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Students may also use wheat instead of
grass seed on their Dirt
Babies.
For more on wheat, see these online
wheat lessons
Where Wheat Grows in Oklahoma (map)
For information
about getting
wheat seeds, check with your local grain elevator or feed store
or contact your local
OSU Extension office. Wheat
seeds are also available
at health food stores
or in the health food
section of your grocery
store, marketed as wheat
berries.
P.A.S.S. for this activity
Wheat
Watch: Adopt a Wheat Field
Let students sprout
some wheat berries for a tasty, healthy snack.
Wheat is Oklahoma's most
valuable agricultural export. Learn more with this game: Oklahoma
Wheat on the World Market
Crop Calendar

Wheat, by Thomas Hart Benton (1967)
Oklahoma Groundbreaker: Joseph Danne
Joseph Danne was a self-taught plant geneticist who developed a variety
of wheat well-suited to Oklahoma and the Southern Plains. The son of
German immigrant parents, Danne moved to Kingfisher County in 1893.
He received eight years of formal education before purchasing a farm
in Beckham County at age 23. He studied the inheritance laws of Gregor
Mendel and conducted genetic research, combining different strains
of wheat to create new genetic hybrids.
The result was Triumph Wheat, a 13-year research project conducted
between Sweetwater and Sayre in Beckham County. In 1924 and 1925 he
combined two locally-grown selections from Turkey wheat with a lesser-known
white wheat type from Australia. This produced a rare hybrid uniquely
adapted to Oklahoma's growing conditions. It had shorter and stronger
straw to withstand prairie winds and it matured early enough to escape
Oklahoma's hot summers. It also had milling and baking characteristics
that were favored by the milling and baking industries. Triumph was
released in 1940. It was the first widely-grown wheat born in and bred
for the southern Great Plains.
More Oklahoma Groundbreakers
September is All-American Breakfast Month

Breakfast
Facts and Ideas
Online Breakfast Lessons
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Yam
and Eggs - In China congee, or rice porridge, is
a breakfast staple. The rice is cooked in lots of water until
it is creamy, then garnished with cooked meat or fish, clams,
seaweed or tofu. Encourage your students to try something different
for breakfast as they learn what people eat for breakfast around
the world.
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The
Grain Game - Many of your students' favorite cereals are made
from grains that grow right here in Oklahoma. In this lesson students
learn the origins of these cereals as they play a counting game using
cereal pieces.
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Fit With Fiber -
Students graph nutritional information from some of their favorite
breakfast cereals.
The USDA Food
Guide Pyramid recommends eating more whole grains. Oklahoma's
number one crop, hard red winter wheat, is a major grain component
in many common breakfast cereals.
Have a cereal breakfast with peaches, this month's featured
Oklahoma fruit.
Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps eats the traditional
Chinese bowl of rice for breakfast before eating the All-American breakfast
foods listed below. (Don't try this if you're not an Olympic swimmer.)
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three eggs over easy
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hash brown potatoes
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five
sausages
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wheat toast
Monarch Migration

Monarch butterfly migration hits Oklahoma sometime this
month. Find out more.
Butterflies are important pollinators whose habitats are disappearing.
Learn how to create a pollinator
habitat.
Make your own butterfly habitat with this lesson: A
Lovely Captive.
Integrated Pest Management
Protecting pollinators and other beneficial insects is one of the
reasons many farmers use Integrated Pest Management methods. Integrated
Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally sensitive
approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense
practices. IPM programs use current, comprehensive information on the
life cycles of pests and their interaction with the environment. This
information, in combination with available pest control methods, is
used to manage pest damage by the most economical means, and with the
least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment. (Source:
EPA fact sheet )
Learn more about IPM from these online AITC lessons:
Pest Patrol
Action Kit (Minnesota Department of Agriculture)
Over the past 20 years several native ladybug species
that were once very common have become extremely rare.
During this same time several species of ladybugs from other places
have greatly increased both their numbers and range. Ladybugs are
essential predators in both farms and forests that keep us from being
overrun with pests like aphids and mealybugs. Join this project,
sponsored by Cornell University, to find and document
ladybugs in your area.
Just for Fun: Spotted
Pacman
Shine on, Harvest Moon
Throughout the year
the Moon rises, on average, about 50 minutes later each day. But near
the autumnal equinox, the day-to-day difference in the local time of
moonrise is only 30 minutes. The Moon will rise around sunset and not
long after sunset for the next few evenings. This is a big help to
Northern Hemisphere farmers during harvest because it provides extra
light for harvesting crops.
P.A.S.S. for this activity
Autumn begins September 20
More
ideas for fall from your fellow teachers
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Oklahoma
Fruit of the Month: Peaches
China is widely held to be the native home of peaches.
This is supported by the fact that there is a wide range of wild peach
types in the countryside. Originally the peach grew in North China in
areas of erosion and overgrazing. They were a symbol of fertility and
affection.
Peaches rank 21 among
Oklahoma agricultural commodities and Oklahoma peaches rank 25 nationwide.
While peaches are not a big cash receipts commodity for Oklahoma, they
are important to several counties in the state. Peaches are primarily
grown in Wagoner county, near Porter, and in Garvin and Pontotoc counties
near Stratford. There are also some orchards in eastern Oklahoma county.
Production in an average year totals around 12 million pounds.
Roald Dahl's birthday is September
13. Celebrate with a Giant Peach Day. Read James and the Giant
Peach while eating sliced peaches with yogurt or some other peach
snack.
Play With Your Food:
Stratification
- Students use the Scientific
Study Format to design their experiment
with stratification.
- Save peach pits to plant.
- If the pit has dried out,
soak it overnight in water.
- Plant in 2 to 3 inches of potting medium.
- Some pits will germinate
after 2 or 3 weeks, some after 2, 3 or more months. Some may not
germinate at all, so try different varieties.
- Peach pits sometimes
germinate better after a cold treatment:
- Put the pit in a zip lock
bag with enough potting medium to cover. The soil should be just
barely moist.
- Put the zip lock bag in a refrigerator. It may take
2 to 3 months to see growth.
- Transplant to a pot once the root
is a 1/2 inch or more in length.
- This procedure is called stratification.
P.A.S.S. for this activity
Be a Food Explorer: Dried Peaches
People travelling west in the 19th Century often carried
dried peaches. Dry some peaches in a food dehydrator or in an oven at
low heat. Have students try peaches dried, canned, fresh and frozen.
Which do they like best? Sliced fresh peaches are a great addition to
cereal for a healthy breakfast. Canned peaches taste great with plain
yogurt. Add a little granola for crunch.
Peach (1 medium peach)
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amounts per serving |
% daily value |
calories |
40 |
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calories from fat |
0 |
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total fat |
0g |
0% |
sodium |
0g |
0% |
total carbohydrate |
9g |
2% |
dietary fiber |
2g |
0% |
sugars |
9g |
|
protein |
1g |
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Vitamin A |
|
6% |
Vitamin C |
|
10% |
calcium |
|
0% |
iron |
|
2% |
Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Source: Centers
for Disease Control
More
about peaches

September is National Mushroom Month
Picture a mature tomato plant, buried so that not a single leaf appears
above ground. Overnight a rain falls, and in the morning the soil begins
to crack. Suddenly tiny tomatoes pop through. If you watch closely, you
can just about see them expand. Within a few days, they're round, ripe
and ready for picking. If you can imagine that, then you've got an idea
of how mushrooms grow. The part we see and eat is only the fruit. The
mushroom plant, called the mycelium, does all of its growing underground
(or inside a tree or other growing medium).
More about mushrooms
How
mushrooms are produced
What other organisms reproduce by spores instead of seeds? Check out Where
the Blue Fern Grows. (Now, at the beginning of the school year,
is a great time to start this activity, since it takes a long time
for ferns to grow from spores.)
September is Food Safety Education Month
American athletes at the Olympics in Beijing are eating food brought
in from the US because organizers were concerned about the presence of
hormones in meat purchased in the commercial market in China
last year. Chinese officials insist all the food is safe and have established
an elaborate system of tracing and testing to be sure.
One of the unusual food-safety measures being used
involves preserving some of every dish served. "We will have a sample
of each item on the menu and keep the sample for at least 48 hours. Should
the athletes fall ill because of the food consumption, we will run a
testing," officials said.
Hormones are chemicals that are produced
naturally in the bodies of all animals, including humans. They are chemical
messages released into the blood by hormone-producing organs that travel
to and affect different parts of the body. Hormones may be produced in
small amounts, but they control important body functions such as growth,
development and reproduction.
Certain hormones are used in food production to make young animals
gain weight faster. They help reduce the waiting time and the amount
of feed eaten by an animal before slaughter in meat industries. In dairy
cows, hormones can be used to increase milk production. Thus, hormones
can increase the profitability of the meat and dairy industries.
There are six different kinds of steroid hormones that are currently
approved by FDA for use in food production in the US. Currently, federal
regulations allow these hormones to be used on growing cattle and sheep,
but not on poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks) or hogs (pigs). FDA allows
the use of the protein hormone rbGH to increase milk production in dairy
cattle. This protein hormone is not used on beef cattle.
More
information on hormones in meat from Cornell University
Online AITC Food Safety Lessons

Books for September
Dahl, Roald, and Lane Smith, James
and the Giant Peach, Puffin, 2000. (Grades 4-6)
When James Henry
Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is
forced to live with his two wicked aunts. One day, an old man in a
dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals . When James accidentally
spills the crystals on his aunts' withered peach tree, he sets the
adventure in motion. From the old tree a single peach grows, and grows,
and grows some more, until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit
and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life.
Easton, Patricia Harrison, and Herb Ferguson, A
Week at the Fair: A County Celebration (3-6)
Detailed account of
the care and judging of animals at a county fair, as told by a young
4-H'er showing her pig and the family's horse. Nice photographs and
a great deal of text.
Gibbons, Gail, Chicks and Chickens,
Holiday House, 2000. (Grades K-3)
Diagrams, definitions,
and close-up views help viewers and readers understand more about raising
chickens. Gibbons informs readers that a chicken can lay unfertilized
eggs as well as fertilized, shows the development of chicks within the
shell, and indicates how some chicks are raised under artificial conditions.
A double-page spread shows different breeds, cutaways show the function
of a gizzard, and the development of an egg within a hen. While the book
is more complex than many preschoolers and kindergartners are used to,
it suits perfectly those farm units where children's questions can be
easily answered.
Landau, Elaine, Wheat, Scholastic, 2000. (Grades 3-5)
The history,
cultivation, and uses of wheat - from the True Book Series.
Spurll, Margriet, and Barbara, Emma's
Eggs, Stoddart, 1997. (picture book,
Grades 4-7)
Emma is one ambitious young chicken. When she discovers that
she has a talent for creating eggs, she won't rest until she executes
the perfect delivery. To her surprise, Emma learns that a little patience
can go a long way, and can sometimes be more productive than trying
too hard to please.
More books about chickens
More books about fruits and vegetables
More books about wheat
Suggest a book.
September Art

"The Sick Chicken," watercolor, gouache and graphite on
paper, Winslow Homer, 1874
Winslow Homer had been working as an artist for nearly
two decades when he began using watercolors. Long the domain of amateur
painters, watercolors had gained professional respectability in 1866 with
the formation of the American Water Color Society. Homer recognized their
potential for profit—for he could produce and sell them quickly—but
he also liked the way watercolor allowed him to experiment more easily
than oil.
Homer first worked as an illustrator. He sent back illustrations
from the battlefields of the Civil War. After the war he traveled the countryside
and painted men, women, and children in many different climates and
circumstances. Homer is known for the roughness of his style which reflected
19th Century America. His finished work appears oddly unfinished, as if
he were painting on the run and implying that what you see is about to
change.
Discussion Questions:
- Homer was known for his rough style which appeared almost unfinished.
What in this painting seems unfinished or rough?
- Discuss Homer's use of the color red in this painting.
- Look at the light and shadow in this painting. Where is the sun?
- What is the center of interest?
- How did Homer divide this scene?
- What does the painting tell you about 19th Century America?
- Write a story about what you see in this painting.
P.A.S.S. for this activity
More Ag in Art |

National Chicken Month
In 2006, poultry and eggs
were the number two agricultural commodity in our state. Celebrate
National Chicken Month with these online poultry lessons:
- Clucking
Chickens - Students explore
sound with clucking chickens made from plastic cups and string.
- A
Lucky Break - Student identify
and decipher some common phrases in the English language that are related
to poultry.
One of the biggest challenges for the poultry industry
is the safe disposal of poultry waste. Learn how waste becomes a valuable
resource with this lesson.
In Gainesville, Georgia, the chicken capital of the world,
it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
More
Facts About Chickens and Eggs
Rooster
Puppet Pattern
Food Fit for an Olympian
Aramark, the American company that has fed Olympic athletes for the
past 13 Olympic games, expects to serve 3.5 million meals during the
2008 Olympics in Beijing. That's 10,000 people an hour, including 28,000
athletes, their coaches and other staff from all over the world. The
Olympic Village dining room seats 6,000 and is open 24 hours a day.
It is the size of three football fields and is considered the largest
dining room ever constructed.
Meals are designed to build the strength of competing athletes and
provide them with the tastes of home. Some of the food needed to serve
a "world
menu" of
more than 800 recipes includes:
- 93,000 pounds of seafood
- 130 tons of meat
- 38,000 pounds of pasta
(dry)
- 134,000 pounds of rice (about 20 million half-cup servings when
cooked)
- 743,000 (232 tons of) potatoes
- 800,000 (44 tons of) eggs
- 1 million apples
- 936,000 bananas
- 312,000 oranges
- 684,000 carrots
- Nearly 24 tons of onions
- 50,000 pounds of mushrooms
- 57,000 pounds of cheese
- 190,000 loaves of bread
- 5,500 pounds of butter
- 16,000 pounds of tofu
- 20,000 heads of lettuce
All those ingredients will create a rotating menu of:
- 320 hot main entrée dishes
- 160 vegetable and potato dishes
- 128 rice and pasta dishes
- 400 different dessert, pastry and bakery
items
The international food staff includes nearly 7,000 managers, chefs
and workers.
Activity: Students develop word math problems from the
information above. For older students - Write and solve number sentences
using the distributive, commutative, associative, identity and inverse
properties.
P.A.S.S. for this activity
World Water Monitoring Day is an international education
and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in
protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct
basic monitoring of their local water bodies. The month-long program
kicks off each year on September 18, with a data entry deadline of December
18.
September is National Honey Month
Honey is delicious, but did you know honeybees are more
valuable for the job they do pollinating crops than they are for their
honey? Read about the importance of pollination in these lessons
from the new 7th-8th grade curriculum:
More online OAITC bee lessons
Facts about bees and honey
Plant some Fall Vegetables
Consider planting some fall vegetables
your students may never have tried.
If you have an outdoor classroom, or just a little space outdoors, you
can still plant:
- kale - so pretty it is often planted with pansies in the fall, but
you can eat it, too.
- kohlrabi - what a great vocabulary word.
- mustard - for mustard greens, but your students might be interested
in seeing the plant which produces the seeds that are ground into the
condiment they use on their sandwiches.
- spinach
- peas
- Swiss chard
- turnips
In October, harvest the greens, chop
them up, and throw them into a nice soup or stir fry - or have
a tasting party and try them raw. Plants grown for harvest in the fall
require some special treatment. OSU's
Fall Gardening Fact Sheet walks
you through the process.
Activities with leafy
greens.

Oklahoma Vegetable of the Month: Tomatoes
Tomatoes love
hot weather but stop producing once temperatures get down to 50 degrees.
They ripen best at temperatures around 75 degrees. Savvy
gardeners started new plants in July, so there may still be some delicious
tomatoes available at your local farmer's
market.
Of
course the most important thing about tomatoes is that they are sooooo
good for you. Tomatoes are high in Vitamins A and C and are considered
one of the best sources of lycopene, an antioxidant that helps fight
cancer and some other diseases.
The
heaviest tomato ever grown weighed 7 lb, 12 oz. It was of the cultivar
'Delicious' and was grown by Gordon Graham of Edmond, Oklahoma in
1986.
More
tomato facts
More activities with
tomatoes and other members of the nightshade family
Play With Your Food: Tomatoes
Bring a variety of tomatoes to class (from parents who have gardens
or from the farmer's market).
- Students will sort tomatoes by shape, size,
and color.
Bring green tomatoes to class.
- Students will experiment
with the best conditions for ripening the tomatoes- on
the window sill, in a bag, in a bag with a ripe peach or some other
ripe fruit, in a refrigerator.
- Students will predict which tomatoes
will ripen first.
- Students will observe the ripening tomatoes for several days and
record observations.
Tomato varieties have some interesting
names: Arkansas Traveler, Big Rainbow, Black Krim, Brandywine, Cherokee
Purple, Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, and Big Boy, to name a few.
- Assign
each student two or three tomato varieties.
- Students will write paragraphs
or draw pictures describing what they think the tomatoes look like,
based on their names.
- Students will research the varieties,
using the internet, seed catalogs or plant books.
- Students will
write stories or plays with the tomato varieties as characters.
P.A.S.S. for these activities
How
to save tomato seeds.
Read about Tomatina,
a festival held each year in Buñol, Spain, where they take playing
with their food (tomatoes) to a new level.
Be a Food Explorer: Cold Tomato Soup
Soup is
great for warming you up in the winter time, but have your students
ever tried cold soup? Prepare a simple gazpacho (another good vocabulary
word) with tomato juice, chopped fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet
peppers and herbs like basil or parsley. Add lemon juice and a little
olive oil, and chill thoroughly. Serve in small paper cups.
Tomato (1/2 cup, cubed)
|
amounts per serving |
% daily value |
calories |
20 |
|
calories from fat |
5 |
|
total fat |
0g |
0% |
sodium |
10g |
0% |
total carbohydrate |
4g |
2% |
dietary fiber |
1g |
0% |
sugars |
3g |
|
protein |
1g |
|
Vitamin A |
|
10% |
Vitamin C |
|
40% |
calcium |
|
0% |
iron |
|
2% |
Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Source: Centers
for Disease Control
Ag in Poetry
Ode
to Tomatoes, Poem by Pablo Neruda
P.A.S.S. for these activities
Writing Prompts
- Write a comparative essay on the advantages and disadvantages
of eating chicken with a fork.
- Pretend you are an Olympic athlete and write
a letter home about the food.
- Describe your favorite breakfast and explain why you like it.
- Pretend you are a lost honeybee and describe your adventures trying
to find your way back to the hive.
- Honeybees communicate with other honeybees through their movements.
Write a song to accompany the honeybee dance that explains where to
find the honey.
- You are a migrating Monarch butterfly. Describe some of the most
interesting places you have visited.
- Use online or library resources to research hormone use in food production
and describe the pros and cons. Review How
Reliable Are Your Sources? before searching online.
- Describe your best state fair experience.
P.A.S.S. for this activity

It's time for the State Fair!
- State Fair of Oklahoma is open September 11-21.
- Tulsa State Fair opens September 25.
Our nation's
first fairs were all about agriculture
The first fairs in our country
were all about agriculture. They were organized to introduce farmers
to new animal breeds and other agricultural innovations.
After the War of Independence,
patriotic gentlemen began forming agricultural societies to advance
schemes that might help the US achieve economic self-sufficiency. Elkanah
Watson was one such gentleman. He was a farmer and one-time revolutionary
who traveled around Europe and recorded his observations about European
manners, morals, farming, industry, etc. After retiring he returned
to his native Massachusetts. In 1808 he held an exhibition on the village
green to show two Merino sheep he had acquired. Merino sheep are valued
for their fine fleece. Watson hoped to encourage local hillside farmers
to raise the sheep in order to guarantee a steady supply of raw wool
for his newly established wool factory.
Two years later Watson convinced
local farmers to hold a larger livestock exhibition. Its success led
to the establishment of the Berkshire Agricultural Society the following
year, organized for the sole purpose of holding an annual county fair,
The first fair was held in 1811. Prizes were offered for the best livestock
in the county, and more than 3,000 people attended.
In later fairs, women were
invited to compete in the domestic skills of cloth production. The
purpose of these competitions was to encourage local households to
lessen their dependency on European products.
Other communities began to organize
county fairs not only to compete but to learn. By the 1840s county
fairs would come to be showcases for new American inventions, such
as Cyrus McCormick's reaper and John Deere's steel plow, as well as
for imported livestock. They also became the social event of the rural
year. Fairs provided a morally legitimate and socially sanctioned reason
for farm families to rest from their labors and travel to town to mingle
and enjoy each other’s company. (Source: McCarry, John, and Randy
Olson, County Fairs: Where America Meets, National Geographic
Society, 1997.)
Cherokees held the first fair in
what would become Oklahoma. In 1845, the Agricultural Society of the
Cherokee Nation staged a one-day fair near Tahlequah to promote stock
raising and the planting of cash crops.
September is Organic Harvest Month
Explore the different meanings of the word "organic" in this
lesson.
Examine the differences between organic and conventionally-produced
foods and learn to identify fact, opinion and various propoganda techniques
with this lesson: Organic
or Conventional
Browse all the lessons
P.A.S.S.
Food Fit for an Olympian
- Grade 3: Math Process - 1.1,2; 3.2; 4.4. Math Content - 3.1,2d
- Grade 4: Math Process - 1.1,2; 3.2; 4.4. Math Content - 1.2b; 3.1,4
- Grade 5: Math Process - 1.1,2; 3.2; 4.4. Math Content - 2.2a
- Grade 6: Math Process - 1.1,3; 4.1. Math Content - 1.2
- Grade 7: Math Process - 1.1,3; 4.1. Math Content - 1.1; 2.1b
- Grade 8: Math Process - 1.1,3; 4.1. Math Content - 2.1b
Time to Plant Winter Wheat
- Pre-Kindergarten: Science Process - 1.3,4. Life Science - 3.1,2,3.
Earth Science - 4.3. Writing - 9.1,3
- Kindergarten: Science Process - 1.2,3. Life Science - 2.1,2. Earth
Science - 3.3. Writing
- 1.1
- Grade 1: Science Process - 3.1,2; 4.3. Life Science - 2.1. Writing
- 2.3
- Grade 2: Science Process - 3.1,2; 4.3. Life Science - 2.1. Writing
- 2.4
- Grade 3: Science Process - 3.1,2; 4.3. Life Science - 2.1. Writing
- 2.1
- Grade 4: Science Process - 3.1,2; 4.3. Life Science - 3.1. Writing
- 1.2
- Grade 5: Science Process - 3.1,2; 4.3. Life Science - 2.2. Writing
- 2.1
- Grade 6: Science Process - 3.1,5; 4.1,5. Life Science - 4.1,2. Earth
Science - 5.3. Writing - 2.7
- Grade 7: Science Process - 3.1,5; 4.1,5. Life Science - 4.2. Writing
- 2.8
- Grade 8: Science Process - 3.1,5; 4.5. Life Science - 3.2. Writing
- 2.8
Shine On, Harvest Moon
- Grade 3: Reading - 6.1bde,2ab
- Grade 4: Reading - 4.1b; 5.2c
- Grade 5: Reading - 5.1a,2b. Science Process - 1.1; 3.1; 4.1. Earth
Science - 3.3
- Grade 6: Reading - 5.1b
- Grade 7: Reading - 5.1abf. Science Process - 1.1; 3.1; 5.1. Earth
Science - 6.1
- Grade 8: Reading - 5.1ab
Play With Your Food: Tomatoes
- Pre-Kindergarten: Math - 1.1. Science Process - 1.1,3,4,5. Physical
Science - 2.1,2. Life Science - 3.2
- Kindergarten: Math - 1.1. Science Process - 1.1,2,3. Physical Science
- 1.1,2. Life Science - 2.2
- Grade 1: Science Process - 1.2; 2.1; 3.1,2. Physical Science - 1.1,2
- Grade 2: Science Process - 1.2; 2.1
- Grade 3: Science Process - 1.2; 2.1. Reading - 6.2ab. Writing -
2.1,2,6
- Grade 4: Science Process - 1.2; 2.1. Reading - 5.2c. Writing -
2.2
- Grade 5: Science Process - 1.2; 2.1. Physical Science - 1.1. Reading
- 5.1a. Writing - 2.2
- Grade 6: Science Process - 1.1; 2.1,2; 3.1. Physical Science
1.1. Reading - 5.1ab. Writing - 2.1abc
Ag in Poetry
- Grade 4: Reading - 1.4b; 3.1ab,2abd; 4.1ab,3ab. Writing - 2.2. Oral
Language - 3.3
- Grade 5: Reading - 1.4b; 3.1ac,2abe,4ad; 4.1ab,2c,3bcd. Writing -
2.1,3. Oral Language - 3.2. Social Studies - 7.1,2,5
- Grade 6: Reading - 1.3b; 3.1a,3a,4d; 4.1a,2c,3acd,4b. Writing- 1.4;
2.7. Visual Literacy - 3.1. Oral Language - 1.2. Social Studies - 1.1,2;
2.3; 3.2,3
- Grade 7: Reading - 1.3bcd; 3.1ac,2a; 4.1a,3ac,4b. Writing - 1.4;
2.8. Oral Language - 1.2. Visual Literacy - 3.1. Social Studies - 1.1;
2.4; 3.2; 5.2
- Grade 8: Reading - 1.3bcd; 3.1a; 4.1a,3ac. Writing - 1.4; 2.8. Oral
Language - 1.2. Visual Literacy - 3.1
Writing Prompts
- Grade 3: Reading - 6.1bc,2ab. Writing - 2.1,2,3ab,4,5,6abc
- Grade 4: Reading - 5.1abd,2acd. Writing - 2.1d,2,3
- Grade 5: Reading - 5.1ac,2bd. Writing - 2.1,2,3,4,6a,8a
- Grade 6: Reading - 5.1abcde,2abcd. Writing - 2.1abc,2abcd,3abc,4a,7,8
- Grade 7: Reading - 5.1ab,2ad. Writing - 2.2ab,3ab,8,9
- Grade 8: Reading - 5.1ab,2abe. Writing - 2.2abd, 3ab,5a,8,9
Play With Your Food: Stratification
- Grade 3: Science Process - 3.1,2. Life Science - 2.1,2
- Grade 4: Science Process - 3.1,3. Life Science - 3.1
- Grade 5: Science Process - 3.1,3. Life Science - 2.2
Ag in Art
- Grade 3: Visual Art - 1.1,2,3; 2.1,3. Social Studies - 3.2. Writing
- 2.1,2,3ab,6ab. Visual Literacy - 2.1
- Grade 4: Visual Art - 1.1,2,3,4; 2.1,2. Writing - 2.1d,2. Visual
Literacy - 2.1,4
- Grade 5: Visual Art - 1.1,2,3,4; 2.1,2,5. Writing - 2.2. Visual Literacy
- 2.1
- Grade 6: Visual Art - 1.1,2; 2.2,5. Writing - 2.1a,4a,7. Visual
Literacy - 1.1
- Grade 7:Visual Art - 1.4; 2.2. Writing - 2.4b,8. Visual Literacy
- 1.1
- Grade 8: Visual Art - 1.4; 2.2. Social Studies - 1.2; 2.4. Writing
- 2.5a,8. Visual Literacy - 1.2
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