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• Pumpkin Lesson>Oklahoma Agriculture Background for Ag Day Contests

Fill in the blanks ag-related story, using different parts of speech.

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Students will make bracelets representing life cycles.

Students will read words related to apples and find words that rhyme with each one. Students will use decoding skills to decode words related to apples. Students will read about apple trees and Johnny Appleseed. They will then complete comprehension pages to demonstrate their understanding of the reading passages. Students will taste apples and create a class graph to show which apple the most students like, as well as the least. They will write a sentence to describe their favorite apple.

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Students will read the history of apples and explore apple-related idioms. Students will read about Johnny Appleseed and answer comprehension questions. Students will conduct scientific experiments with apples. Students will classify apples and conduct mathematical activities with apples.

Students will understand the nutritional value of asparagus and how it is grown in Oklahoma. Students will use asparagus as a manipulative to solve math problems. Students will paint with asparagus.

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Students mark bingo cards as they recognize the farm animal sounds in the song "The Farmer in the Dell."

Students count insects or specified weeds in a given area to experience how farmers decide whether or not to use pesticides.

Students will learn about germination by sprouting beans and caring for them in small necklaces which they keep around their necks.

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• Beef Lessons and Resources

• Bees and Honey Lessons and Resources

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• Wheat Lessons and Resources

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The student construct an insect holder and observe and classify insects.

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• Measure-Mania

Students will use dry pasta in a variety of math activities and to create poetry.

Students make adhesives from some common food substances and use flour paste to make pinatas and other crafts from papier mache.

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Students will learn about the group of vegetables known as cucurbits and use cucurbits in a variety of creative activities, mapping activities, math activities, scientific experiments and visual art.

Students will make toys from corn cobs and learn of the many uses for corn, both historically and today.

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• Sheep and Wool Lessons and Resources

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Students will spell the word "agriculture," discuss its meaning and read about the impact of agriculture to them. Students will identify everyday things made from agriculture. Students will sort items made from agriculture. Students will count how many people in their class have used different agriculture products. They will write numbers or tally marks to show their results.

Students will observe grass sprouting and growing like hair on heads they create from knee-high nylon stockings and potting medium.

• Soil Lessons and Resources

• Chicken and Egg Lessons and Resources

Students get practice telling time while reading about a goat with an unusual trait.

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Students use flash cards to learn names for mother and baby farm animals, then play a game in which students designated as babies must find students designated as mothers.

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All about legumes.

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Student learn about farmer's markets and complete a survey to learn what kinds of produce is grown by local farmers and gardeners.

Students will learn that agriculture is all around us in Oklahoma, from the ground and all around. Students will list rhyming words and write simple poems. Students will identify people in the community with careers associated with agriculture. Students will research some government agencies that support agriculture. Students will research an agricultural commodity produced in Oklahoma and sequence the steps from the ground to the grocery shelf.

Students will work in small groups or individually to create scarecrows, write brief descriptions about them and display them in a class scarecrow show.

The students germinate seeds under a variety of conditions.

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Students read about what a plant needs to grow and conduct experiments related to plant needs.

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Math activities with grapes, a fable and the growth cycle of grapes.

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Students use pieces of cereal made from grains grown in Oklahoma to play a counting game.

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• Five Friendly Farmers

Students construct a model of a plant that grows from a bulb.

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Students will learn where common fruits and vegetables are grown and learn how to choose the best quality.

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Students match animals with the products they produce.

Students learn to interpret data in grocery advertisements and compute costs by creating a menu and computing the cost of a turkey dinner.

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Students make the connection between seeds and trees by gathering and planting acorns.

Students make a Scarecrow Conversion Chart and get practice converting units of measurement.

Students construct a "feed bag" representing the components included in a horse's feed and learn that, like humans, animals need a variety of foods for good nutrition.

The student will play a game demonstrating variables that affect the food supply.

Many activities with tomatoes, potatoes and other nightshades

Students learn the importance of the right kind of horseshoes for different horse activities

The student will become familiar with some jobs in agriculture.

• Oklahoma Studies Lessons and Resources

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All about root vegetables and leafy greens.

Students will read about pears and write creative narratives about the life of a pear. Students will read a folk tale about pears and answer comprehension questions.

Students will learn about different kinds of peas that grow in Oklahoma. Students will identify the parts of the vegetables we eat as root, fruit or leaves. Students will use peas in pod for a variety of math activities. Students will compare and contrast different versions of the story "The Princess and the Pea." Students will grow peas.

Students learn about themselves as individuals and understand that things in nature also have traits that distinguish them from all others.

Students brainstorm, web, gather data and graph information about pizza preferences.

Students will read about vegetables and answer comprehension questions, write a sentence about vegetables, read Tops and Bottoms, by Janet Stevens, and create their own Tops and Bottoms gardens. Students will sort and categorize vegetables by parts (leaves, seeds, flowers, fruit, stems or roots). Students will plant a classroom garden and harvest vegetables. Students will create a garden journal and decorate it with vegetable prints. Students will measure, sort and weigh vegetables and classify them by geometric shape.

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Students will practice and review place values,
using seeds as manipulatives.

Students take a walk wearing socks over their shoes to learn how some seeds travel.

Students will learn the many uses for soybeans. Students will read food labels to identify foods made with soybeans. Students will research to identify additional uses for soybeans.

Students will learn about the rodeo and hold their own rodeos with age-appropriate activities like "Pig Herding" ( herding balloons or balls), barrel racing with a stick horse, "Wild Cow Milking," "Scatter Square Dancing," etc.

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Students explore the geography of Indian Territory, learn about the lives of children during that time period, make butter, make a rag doll and play historical games played by pioneer children and America Indian children.

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• Game: Cattle Herding
• Kahoot: Reading Brands
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• Decoding the Range: the Secret Language of Cattle Branding (Smithsonian)

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• Wheat Lessons and Resources

The student will sequence stages in the life of a wheat plant and identify the six main parts of the wheat plant.

• Melon Lessons and Resources

Encourage your students to try something different as they learn what people eat for breakfast around the world.

Students learn where their food dollars go while getting practice recognizing coins and making change.