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Connect the Dots: Where does my food come from? - This is an integrated educational kit designed for students in grades two and three, with portions expandable to grades one and four. As students explore their world, we need to help them realize that the food system contributes significantly to this world. The lessons in this kit will help you meet national education standards in science and social studies while reinforcing skill development in language arts and content understanding in health. The lessons can be taught in any order or can be used individually if time doesn't permit teaching all three.
- Lesson 1 - Connect the Dots: Tracing agriculture in my daily life challenges the students to stump you, their teacher, by thinking critically about the improtance of agriculture beyond the food it provides.
- Lesson 2 - Connect the Dots: Linking the sun to my plate helps teach students about food chains and food webs by using examples applicable to their lives.
- Lesson 3 - Connect the Dots: Understanding the families behind my food encourages students to explore their family tree and some of their family history and compare it to families living on Century Farms and Century Ranches that have been in the same falily for more than 100 years.
This kit will help your students understand where their food comes from and how successfully America's farmers and ranchers have provided that sustenance for generations. Help us connect the dots and draw an accurate picture of the food system that provides you and your students the necessities of life, every day without fail.
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| Caretakers All - Originally published in 1992, Caretakers All is a popular environmental education program for grades 4-7. Caretakers All consists of six lessons: Caretakers of Animals, Caretakers of Water, Caretakers of Soil, Caretakers of Plants, Caretakers of Resources and Caretakers of Community. In the first five lessons students explore environmental issues and learn the principles of good caretaking by studying ways farmers and ranchers protect the natural resources in their care. In lesson 6, students discover the ways they can become caretakers in their own communities. |
Meet the Power Foods - This kit contains a PowerFoods poster and a CD that contains a PowerPoint teaching students in 4th and 5th grades about MyPyramid. |
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