The Story of Milk
Grades PreK-1: English Language Arts
Student learn where milk comes from and place the steps in sequence.
Lessons by Title
All Lessons are aligned with Oklahoma Academic Standards
A
- About Pumpkins
- AC Magruder and the Magruder Plots
- Ag Education and Extension: William Bentley and Bermuda John Fields
- Ag in My Classroom
- Ag in My Community
- Ag in the Outfield
- Ag in the Playing
- Ag Libs
- Agriculture — It Doesn't Just Happen: The Work of the Ag Research Service
- Agriculture: From the Ground and All Around
- Agriculture in Motion
- Agriculture in Poetry
- Agriculture is a Cycle
- All About Christmas Trees
- All Black Towns: Edward P. McCabe and Annie Peters
- American Farmers Count! Census 2020
- An Apple a Day
- Are You Thirsty? The Effects of Pollution on Drinking Water
- The Art of Growing Things
- Asparagus: The Mighty Spear
- At Home on the Range
- At the Sale Barn (Grades 6-8)
- At the Sale Barn (Grades 9-12)
- At Your Fingertips
B
- Baby Peanut Plants
- Barnyard Bingo
- Be a Bug Scout
- Be a Food Explorer
- A Bean is a Seed
- Beautiful Bovine
- Bee Dance
- Bee Smart. Bee Happy
- Bee's Wax
- Beef is Good for You
- Beef or Dairy?
- Ben Marshall and His Prize Peaches
- Bill Pickett, Bull Doggin' Cowboy
- Biomass: The Energy of the Future
- Black Mesa: Where the Rocky Mountains Meet the Short Grass Prairie
- Bones and Stones
- Bovine Oversteps Boundaries: Newspaper Headlines, Captions and Stories
- Bread Around the World
- Bread in a Bag
- Breaking Them Down: Careers in Agriculture
- Bring on the Brassica Veggies!
- Bubbles in the Cabbage Juice
- Bug's Eye View
- Build a Burger
- Buried Treasure: Oklahoma's Aquifers
- Busting the Prairie: Planning a Homestead Community
- By the Pound
C
- Call It Macaroni
- Case of the Missing Pumpkin
- The Chemistry of Butter
- Cherokee Farming
- Chew It Twice
- Chewed Paper and Sticky Stuff
- Choctaw Farming
- Circles in the Landscape: Irrigating Oklahoma Crops
- Clothesline Sleuth
- Clucking Chickens
- Coats and Genes: Genetic Traits in Cattle (Grades 6-8)
- Coats and Genes: Genetic Traits in Cattle (Grades 9-12)
- Come into My Parlor
- Cool Cucurbits
- Corn Cob Toys
- Corn Field Math and Science (Grades 3-5)
- Corn Field Math and Science (Grades 6-8)
- Corn: Then and Now
- Cotton Cycle
- Cotton Pickin': Before and After the Civil War
- Counting Sheep or People? Census 2020
- Creepy, Crawly Critters
- Crickets on the Hearth
- The Cutest Camelid
D
- Dark Days on the Prairie
- A Day without Ag
- Dear George: George Washington and the First Census of Agriculture
- Dirt Babies
- Dirty Pictures
- DNA Blueprint for Life
- Don't Fence Me in
E
- The Eastern Redcedar
- Eat Your Flowers: Testing the Effects of Soil Types on Edible Flowers
- Egg Toss
- Exploring Honey: Viscosity and Crystallization
- Extending the Knowledge
F
- The Fable of Franny and Her Fabulous Fainting Goat
- The Fair Starts With Agriculture
- Fantastic Flower
- Farm Babies
- Farm Dogs
- The Farmer and The Cowman
- The Farmer Cares for the Land
- A Field of Beans
- Fish in a Bottle
- Fit with Fiber
- Food for Keeps
- Fresh from the Farm
- From Bolls to Bolts
- From Shelter to Playing Fields: Oklahoma Sod
- From the Ground and All Around
- Fruit or Vegetable?
- Funky Fungus
G
- Garden Grid
- Garden Guard
- Garden in a Mailbox
- George Washington on the Farm
- Geothermal Energy
- Germination Observations
- Germs are Everywhere: ELA
- Germs are Everywhere: Health
- Germs are Everywhere: Math
- Get Growing
- Get the Point
- Good Breeding
- Good Grapes
- Goodness, Grady!
- Got Gluten?
- The Grain Game
- Great Balls of Fire
- Great Expectations
- Grow a Living Pantry: Growing Food without Soil
- A Growing Market
- Growing Peanuts
H
- A Handy Measure
- Harvest the Wind
- Have You the Time of Day?
- Head, Heart, Hands, Health
- Henrietta Vann and Wilson N. Jones
- A Hidden Beauty
- The History of Ethanol in America
- History of Irrigation on the Great Plains
- Hit the Trail
- Hoboes on Harvest
- Hogs on a Diet
- Horse Cents
- A Horse of a Different Color
- Horseshoe Math
- Hot off the Grill
- How Far Does It Travel? Exploring the Geography of Food
- How Germs Spread (Grades 3-5)
- How Germs Spread (Grades 6-8)
- How the Brahman Bull Got Its Hump
- How to Pick the Best (Grades PreK-2)
- How to Pick the Best (Grades 3-5)
- How to Sneak Up on a Sheep
- The Humble Beginnings of the Hamburger
- A Hundred Bales of Hay
- Hydropower
I
- If Not for the Pollinators: Matching Flowers with Pollinators
- In Strawberry Fields
- An International Menu
J
- Jesse Chisholm and the Chisholm Trail
- John Kroutil: The Yukon Mills
- John Simpson: A Radical Voice for Farmers
- A Journey through the Digestive System
- Juan Cruz Lujan and the Pastores
- Just Lookin' for a Home
- Just Peachy
L
- A Lending Hand
- Let It Rain
- Let's Get Together: Grafting Fruit and Pecan Trees
- Little Red Hen
- Look Out, Below!
- Look! Up in the Sky! Agricultural Aviation
- A Lovely Captive
- Lucille Mulhall: The First Cowgirl
- A Lucky Break
M
- Macaroni Math
- Made from Animals
- Make Mine Turkey
- Making the Most of Milk: Understanding Lactose Intolerance
- Making Paper
- Making Sense of Sensors: Sensors and Satellites in Ag Technology
- Manure Occurs: Managing Nutrients in Livestock Manure
- A Market for Goats
- Math for Peanuts
- Measuring Exponential Growth
- Melon Madness
- Melon Math
- Melon Meiosis
- Melons in Prose and Poetry<
- Mighty Earth Movers
- Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns
- Milk by the Gallon, Strawberries by the Quart
- A Mixed Bag
- Mr. Goldman's Good Idea
- Modifying the Plow
- Mud in the Water
- Mushrooms, A Fungus among Us
- Mushrooms, A Poem
N
- Natural or Artificial
- Next Year's Seeds
- The Nightshades: Tomatoes, Potatoes and Peppers
- No Foot, No Horse
- Norman Borlaug - Hunger Fighter
O
- Off to Work
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Oilmen Who Loved the Land: Samuel Lloyd Noble and Roy J Turner
- Oklahoma Ag Production Statistics
- Oklahoma Forests
- Oklahoma Grown
- Oklahoma Soils
- Oklahoma Stone Soup
- Oklahoma's Berry Best
- Oklahoma's Hydroelectric Power Dams
- Oklahoma's Inland Waterway: The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
- Oklahoma's Other Oilfields
- Oklahoma's Roots and Leafy Greens
- Organic or Conventional
P
- Pairing up with Pears
- Pancakes, Please (Grades 3-5)
- Pancakes, Please (Grades 6-12)
- Paper or Plastic? Exploring Rewewable Resources
- The Peanut Wizard
- Peas, Please
- Pecan Fingerprints
- Pickled Hay: How to Make Silage
- Piece by Piece
- Pizza for Everyone
- Pizza Portions
- Plant or Fungus? What is the Difference?
- Plant Parts We Eat
- Playing in the Dirt: Discovering Soil
- Plows on the Hunting Grounds: The Indian Allotment Act of 1887
- Pollinator Habitats
- Pop, Pop, Popcorn (Grades 3-5)
- Pop, Pop, Popcorn (Grades PreK-2)
- Potawatomi Farming
- Powerful Potato
- Preparing for Drought
- A Priceless Collection
- Problem Solvers: Fred Hoeme and Joseph Danne
- Pumpkin Globes
- Pumpkin Seed Art
- Pumpkins by the Pound
- Pumpkins, Squash, and Other Cucurbits
- Punkin' Chunkin'
- A Purple Cow
R
- A Rafter of Turkeys
- Read Before You Eat
- The Real Reader: A Cowboy's Life
- The Role of Fire
- Rooftop Sandwich
- 'Round and 'Round We Go: The Benefits of Crop Rotation
- Run, Girl, Run - Laura Ella Crews
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- Sandwich Feast
- Save Our Soil: Exploring Agricultural Land Use
- Say Cheese
- Seed Swapping
- The Shape of Things
- Snack Sack
- Snowball Fight
- Soak It Up
- Sock Walk
- Solar Cells, Panels, and Arrays
- Solar Energy Reading Page
- Sorghum Feeds Oklahoma Cattle
- Soybeans All Around Us
- Spiro Farming: Corn, Squash and Beans Build a Mighty Trade Center
- Spores to Compost
- Stick Horse Rodeo
- The Story of Milk
- Street Cows
- The Sunny Sunflower Story
- Sunny Weather
- Surveying: 19 Chains and 50 Links
- Symbiosis in Agriculture
T
- Taming the Wild Aurochs
- Territorial Children
- Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Harvest
- They Don't Just Eat Grass
- Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin (Grades 3-5)
- Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin (Grades 6-8)
- This Little Pig
- Thomas Jefferson's Useful Plants
- 3-D Dairy: Graphing Dairy Production Statistics
- Three Sisters
- Time Line of the Land
- A Timeline of Agriculture in Oklahoma History
- Timing is Everything: The Harvest Depends on the Weather
- Tortillas in a Bag
- A Tough Nut to Crack
- A Trip to the Animal Fair
- Truth or Hogwash?
U
W
- Watermelon, Watermelon
- Weather Matters
- Weeds on the Windowsill
- Wet and Wooly
- What Color are Mushroom Spores?
- What is Drought?
- What is Gluten?
- What's at Your Tailgate?
- What's in Your Picnic Basket?
- What's Organic?
- What's Your Brand?
- The Wheat Plant
- Wheat: From Field to Oven
- When the Sun Stands Still
- Which Little Piggy? Ear Notching
- Will Your Car Run on Grass? How Biomass Becomes Alcohol
- Woods, Lake, Rocks: Art of the Wild West at Woolaroc
- Working Watermelon
- World Trade
Y
About Pumpkins
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts
Students will read about pumpkins and answer questions to show comprehension.
AC Magruder and the Magruder Plots
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who is best known by the OSU Experimental Winter Wheat Plots named in his honor.
Ag Education and Extension: William Bentley and Bermuda John Fields
Grade 3: Social Studies, Math
Students will read about two of Oklahoma's Red Dirt Groundbreakers and discover the impact they had on Oklahoma Extension Offices.
Ag in My Classroom
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts
Items in the classroom made from Oklahoma agricultural products
Ag in My Community
Grades 3-5 Science, Social Studies
Students will read and learn about agriculture in their own community and across the state. Students will identify agricultural commodities produced in their county, along with businesses that support agriculture and agritourism opportunities available in their area. Students will sample soil from the area and conduct experiments to identify soil types. Students will construct a simple rain gauge to measure rainfall and compare their results with official totals.
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Ag in the Outfield
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Visual Art
The student will learn about the many agricultural products used in a baseball game.
Ag in the Playing Fields
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science
All the ways agriculture is used in sports, including the grass in the field.
Ag Libs
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Fill in the blanks ag-related story, using different parts of speech.
Agriculture — It Doesn't Just Happen: The Work of the Ag Research Service
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts
Students use research skills to find information about agriculture research projects and use gathered information in a variety of presentations.
Agriculture: From the Ground and All Around
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Math
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 act out some of the agriculture-related jobs of people all around them in their community.
Agriculture in Motion
Select lesson by grade level below
Students learn about the work involved in agriculture and the machines used to help.
Students learn about the work involved in agriculture and the machines used to help.
- Grades PreK-2 (English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Visual Art)
- Grades 3-5 (English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Visual Art)
- Grades 6-8 (English Language Arts, Visual Art)
Agriculture in Poetry
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts
Students will read and discuss a variety of poems with agricultural themes and write their own poems based on food and agriculture.
Agriculture is a Cycle
Grades K-3: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Students will make bracelets representing life cycles.
All About Christmas Trees
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will learn about the history of Christmas tree farms and Christmas tree markets. They will create handmade Christmas trees that imitate the geometry found in nature.
- Christmas Trees Facts
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All Black Towns: Edward P. McCabe and Annie Peters
Grade 3: Social Studies, English Language Arts; High School: Oklahoma History
Students will read about two of Oklahoma's Red Dirt Groundbreakers and discover the positive impact they had on Oklahoma.
American Farmers Count! Census 2020
Grades 3-5: Social Studies, Math, English Language Arts
Students will complete a family tree and write each family members name, and they state they lived in as an adult. They will identify who in their family is/was involved in agriculture. They will then transfer this information to a map of the United States. Students will choose a relative and compare census data from their state with Oklahoma. Students will read about the process of counting American farmers, as well as all Americans. They will discover the difference between the Census of Agriculture and the decennial census. They will find the main idea of a reading passage.
An Apple a Day
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Science, Math
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.
Are You Thirsty? The Effects of Pollution on Drinking Water
Grades 6-8: Science, Math, Social Studies
Various activities for helping students visualize the effects of pollution on drinking water.
The Art of Growing Things
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts
Students will use seeds and plants to increase their vocabulary, conduct research, create a timeline and make presentations. They will observe plant growth habits in different locations in classroom and report their findings. Students will design and illustrate their own seed packets.
Asparagus: The Mighty Spear
Grades PreK-1: Social Studies, Math, English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Small Motor
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.
At Home on the Range
Grades 3-5: Social Studies, Math, English Language Arts
How ranchers on the western frontier helped saved the bison from extinction.
At the Sale Barn for Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8: Math
Through classroom experiences, students will read about cattle auctions and solve math word problems related to buying cattle.
At the Sale Barn for Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12: Math
Through classroom experiences, students will read about cattle auctions and solve math word problems related to buying cattle.
At Your Fingertips
Grades 6-7: Social Studies
On a world map, students will locate countries from which we import foods that climatic conditions prevent us from growing locally.
Baby Peanut Plants
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts
Students examine raw peanuts to find the "baby peanuts" inside and then sprout them on paper towels.
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Barnyard Bingo
Grades PK-2: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, PE, World Languages
Students mark bingo cards as they recognize the farm animal sounds in the song "The Farmer in the Dell."
Be a Bug Scout
Grades 2-4: Math, Science, English Language Arts
Students count insects or specified weeds in a given area to experience how farmers decide whether or not to use pesticides.
Be a Food Explorer
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Health
Students will try a variety of unfamiliar fruits and vegetables, research their origins and develop recipes.
A Bean is a Seed
Grades K-4: Science
Students will learn about germination by sprouting beans and caring for them in small necklaces which they keep around their necks.
Beautiful Bovine
Grades PreK-3: Science, English Language Arts, Math, Visual Arts
Volunteer is dressed as a cow to demonstrate purposes of the different body parts of a cow and to show how a cow is different from a human. Students make cow glyphs and diagrams comparing cows and humans.
Bee Dance
Grades 1-4: Visual Arts, English Language Arts, Science
The student will construct bee puppets and use them to act out some bee behaviors.
Bee Smart. Bee Happy
Grades K-4: Science, English Language Arts, Music
Students learn basic information about bees and the importance of pollination in crop production.
Bee's Wax
Grades 1-3: Math
Students will complete a pattern of hexagons to understand what a honeycomb looks like. Students will experiment with other shapes for making honeycombs.
Beef is Good for You
Grades 6-7: Math, Health, English Language Arts
Students calculate the content of nutrients in beef from percentages andchart nutritional information about beef.
Beef or Dairy?
Grades K-2: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Visual Arts
Students learn to distinguish between beef and dairy cows by identifying their basic body shapes.
Ben Marshall and His Prize Peaches
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who helped peaches become a major cash crop in Oklahoma.
Bill Pickett, Bull Doggin' Cowboy
Grade 3: Social Studies, English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will be introduced to an Oklahoma Cowboy who pioneered the bulldogging contest at rodeos. Bill Pickett was later recognized with a postage stamp in his honor. Students will design their own postage stamps.
Biomass: The Energy of the Future
Grades 6-7: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students will use research skills to gather information on renewable fuels. Students will compile information on a graph and compare and contrast the pros and cons for developing the fuels for use.
Black Mesa: Where the Rocky Mountains Meet the Short Grass Prairie
Grades 3-8: Science, Social Studies
Students read about the history, topography and environment of Black Mesa, develop experiments to demonstrate erosion and formation of a mesa, find land features on maps and research related topics.
Bones and Stones
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science
Students will read about ancient farming cultures in Oklahoma and the early development of farming tools. Students will design and construct simple farming tools.
Bovine Oversteps Boundaries: Newspaper Headlines, Captions and Stories
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts
Students will read a true story about Grady, the Silo Cow, from Yukon, Oklahoma. They will create newspaper headlines, captions, and stories.
Bread Around the World
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students will learn about the different kinds of breads eaten by different cultures and locate the parts of the world where the breads are most commonly eaten.
Bread in a Bag
Grades 1-4: English Language Arts, Science, Health
Students learn about the origins of bread and make bread in a bag.
Bread in a Bag Kits available from:
Oklahoma State Department of Education
Child Nutrition Department
Becky Gray, Child Nutrition Coordinator
Room 310
405.522.5042
Oklahoma State Department of Education
Child Nutrition Department
Becky Gray, Child Nutrition Coordinator
Room 310
405.522.5042
Breaking Them Down: Careers in Agriculture
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Students will explore some agriculture-related careers while decoding words with common suffixes.
Bring on the Brassica Veggies!
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts
Students will read about various vegetables in the Brassica family and answer comprehension questions. Students will test recipes using Brassica vegetables and determine their favorites. Students will use Brassica vegetables in art projects.
Bubbles in the Cabbage Juice
Grades 6-8: Science
Students will conduct experiments with cabbage juice as an indicator to identify carbon in a variety of substances.
Bug's Eye View
Grades 1-4: Science, English Language Arts
The student construct an insect holder and observe and classify insects.
Build a Burger
Grades 1-4: English Language Arts, Math, Health
Students explore the components of a hamburger and build models of their own to create a balanced, nutritious meals.
Buried Treasure: Oklahoma's Aquifers
Grades 3-6: Social Studies, Science, Math
Students will read about the hydrologic cycle, groundwater and aquifers, locate aquifers in Oklahoma and build models to show the permeability of different earth materials.
- What is Groundwater? (Excellent video from Quest Science)
- Summary of the Water Cycle (Great charts from USGS Water Science School)
- Oklahoma Studies Lessons and Resources
Busting the Prairie: Planning a Homestead Community
Grades 8-12: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students learn about the Homestead Act of 1862 and the importance of agriculture in the settling of the West by planning and designing homestead communities and designing handbills inviting others to join them.
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By the Pound
Grades 1,2,4: Math
The student will estimate the weight and cost of produce and calculate the actual price.
Call It Macaroni
Grades PK-2: English Language Arts, Math
Students will use dry pasta in a variety of math activities and to create poetry.
The Chemistry of Butter
Grades 5-7: Science, English Language Arts
Students will read about butter and conduct experiments to observe chemical reactions and changes in properties in milk.
Cherokee Farming
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science
Students will read about farming among the Cherokees and compare farming before and after the removal. Students will make a timeline of the foods adopted by the Cherokee. Students will research to learn more about the Cherokee. Students will conduct experiments with heirloom seeds.
Chew It Twice
Grades 4-5: English Language Arts, Science
The student will trace the path a cow's food follows through its body.
Chewed Paper and Sticky Stuff
Grades 2-5: Science, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Students make adhesives from some common food substances and use flour paste to make pinatas and other crafts from papier mache.
Choctaw Farming
Grades 3-4: Social Studies, Science
Students will read about farming among the Choctaw. Students will examine contributions of different cultures to Choctaw agriculture. Students will work together to develop imaginary bean hybrids.
Circles in the Landscape: Irrigating Oklahoma Crops
Grades 6-12: Math, Science, Social Studies
Students examine transpiration, evapotranspiration and water balance, learn the reasons for irrigation, analyze Oklahoma weather information and use geometry and other math skills to design an irrigation system.
Clothesline Sleuth
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Students trace the origins of various clothing items to their agricultural sources.
Clucking Chickens
Grades K-4: Visual Arts, Science, Music, PE
Students construct a model of a chicken that makes chicken sounds from a plastic cup and string.
Coats and Genes: Genetic Traits in Cattle for Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8: Science
The student will read about heredity and explore genetic traits in cattle.
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- Beef Lessons and Resources
Coats and Genes: Genetic Traits in Cattle for Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12: Science
The student will read about heredity and explore genetic traits in cattle.
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Come Into My Parlor
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math
Students read and answer comprehension questions about milking parlors. Students interpret a map scale to measure the space in a milking parlor. Students will use diagrams of milking parlors to determine the fraction of cows being milked in each one.
Cool Cucurbits
Grades PreK-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Art
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.
Corn Cob Toys
Grades K-3: Visual Arts, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math
Students will make toys from corn cobs and learn of the many uses for corn, both historically and today.
Corn Field Math and Science for Grades 3-5
Grades 3-5: Math, Science, Social Studies
Students will learn about corn’s place in the history of the Americas. Students will solve real life math problems using corn production. Students will display an understanding of how humans crossbred and domesticated plants. Students will classify Newtonian and Non-Newtonian substances and create polymers using cornstarch and corn syrup.
Corn Field Math and Science for Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8: Math, Science, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Plant Science, Food Science and Technology
Students will learn about corn’s place in the history of the Americas. Students will solve real life math problems using corn production. Students will classify Newtonian and Non Newtonian substances and create polymers using cornstarch and corn syrup.
Corn: Then and Now
Grades 4-6: English Language Arts
Students will read about the importance of corn in our lives and in the lives of ancient people. Students will research to learn about corn traditions and growing practices, then and now. Students will research some corn myths and legends and act them out.
Cotton Cycle
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Math
Students will learn about the life cycle of a cotton plant, use cotton seed as a nonstandard unit of measurement, plant cotton seeds in cups and chart their growth, draw the life cycle of a cotton plant with cotton swabs to illustrate books, count by ones and tens using cotton balls.
Cotton Pickin': Before and After the Civil War
Grades 6-8: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students examine the importance of cotton to the economy of the South before and after the Civil War.
Counting Sheep or People? Census 2020
Grades PreK-2: Math, World Languages
Students will use one-to-one correspondence and count popcorn to represent sheep by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. Students will use tally marks to record the number of "sheep" they have. Students will use counting words from other languages to count popcorn, which represents sheep. Students learn about the Census of 2020 by taking a census of their class and creating a class graph.
Creepy, Crawly Critters
Grades K-3: English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students will learn characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials.
Crickets on the Hearth
Grades 8-12: Life Science, Pre Algebra
Students design and conduct investigations with crickets.
The Cutest Camelid
Grades K-3: English Language Arts, Science
Students will read about alpacas. Students will create fact sheets about alpacas. Students will create flip books showing alpaca needs. Students will compare and contrast alpaca fiber with sheep and goat fiber.
Dark Days on the Prairie
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science
Students write descriptive paragraphs based on pictures from the Dust Bowl, label a map showing the Oklahoma counties and surrounding states affected by the Dust Bowl, and research climatic conditions of the area.
A Day without Ag
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
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.
Dear George: George Washington and the First Census of Agriculture
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Students will translate excerpts from letters by George Washington into modern English; Read excerpts from letters by George Washington about the United States in its infancy and compare conditions Washington describes with recent conditions, based on current census data (provided); Compose a modern-day reply to one of Washington's letters, based on current census data (provided). Design brochures to promote selected agriculture commodities. Design surveys and use US Postal Service, email and social media to correspond with students in other parts of the country and compare modes of modern communication; Graph census data and find measures of central tendency.
Dirt Babies
Grades K-2: Science, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Students will observe grass sprouting and growing like hair on heads they create from knee-high nylon stockings and potting medium.
Dirty Pictures
Grades K-2: Science, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Student compose pictures using the many different colors of Oklahoma soil.
DNA Blueprint for Life
Grades 6-8: Science
Students conduct an experiment with fruit to isolate DNA and research online to learn more about the reasons for isolating DNA.
- PowerPoint (DNA Extraction from Strawberries)
- Extract Your DNA (simple NOVA experiment)
Don't Fence Me in
Grades 3-5: Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, PE
Students learn the history of barbed wire and its impact on the development of the west and practice identifying geometric terms using examples of some common styles of barbed wire.
The Eastern Redcedar
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science
Students read three articles about Oklahoma's eastern redcedar and find the central idea and supporting facts and author's point of view. Students conduct scientific investigations with eastern redcedar samples. Students identify the range of the eastern redcedar.
Eat Your Flowers: Testing the Effects of Soil Types on Edible Flowers
Grades 6-8: Science
Students grow flowers in different soil types to determine the effect on flavor.
Egg Toss
Grades PreK-2 Math, PE
Students practice counting by playing a game with an egg carton and plastic eggs. Students estimate and measure distances in a game of "Egg Toss" with real boiled eggs or alternative. Students use plastic eggs as manipulatives for sorting, patterning, and to estimate and measure volume.
Exploring Honey: Viscosity and Crystallization
Grades 5-7: Science
Students will conduct experiments to explore the viscosity and crystallization of honey.
Extending the Knowledge
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Students read about the history of land-grant universities and the Cooperative Extension Service, work in groups to find the main idea and supporting details and answer comprehension questions. As a class students make a timeline of the events leading up to the land-grant and Extension system of today. Students research to find information about specific land-grant universities and locatethem on a map of the US.
The Fable of Franny and Her Fabulous Fainting Goat
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Math
Students get practice telling time while reading about a goat with an unusual trait.
The Fair Starts with Agriculture
Grades 3-5: Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Students will read about the history of county and state fairs in the US, Indian Territory and the State of Oklahoma. Students will answer comprehension questions about the reading. Students will develop time lines of the history of fairs. Students will develop fair entries for judging.
Fantastic Flower
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Science
Students learn the anatomy of a flower and play a game in which they act out the pollination process.
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Farm Babies
Grades PreK-1: Math, Science
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.
Farm Dogs
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students read about the various jobs dogs do on the farm and research to find information about some common herd dog breeds.
The Farmer and The Cowman
Grades K-2: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Music
Students make booklets showing the difference between a ranch and a farm.
The Farmer Cares for the Land
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
The student will identify cause and effect relationships in issues relating to agriculture and the environment.
A Field of Beans
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, PE
All about legumes.
Fish in a Bottle
Grades K-3: English Language Arts, Science
Students build fish ecosystems, then observe and write about changes they observe.
Fit with Fiber
Grade 6-8: Math, Health
Students will read and discuss background and vocabulary, then will use cereal boxes to graph and calculate the mean, median and mode for data collection. Graphs will be utilized to plot data. Students will analyze cereal box labels to determine the nutrient content, they then will list each ingredient and cereal in a health category based on the profile of the cereal. Students will use recommendations from My Plate to demonstrate an understanding of the functions of fiber in the body and make suggestions for increasing fiber in the diet.
Food for Keeps
Grades 6-8: Science, English Language Arts, Math
Student explore food preservation methods from early American history through today. Includes beef jerky recipe.
Fresh from the Farm
Grades 1-3: Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, PE
Student learn about farmer's markets and complete a survey to learn what kinds of produce is grown by local farmers and gardeners.
From Bolls to Bolts
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Students read statements about cotton manufacturing and place them in chronological order.
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From Shelter to Playing Fields: Oklahoma Sod
Grade 3: Social Studies, Math, Science
Students will read about the importance of sod in Oklahoma history and as an Oklahoma-grown product in today's economy. Students will complete math problems related to sod. Students will conduct experiments with a purchased roll of sod. Students will conduct an experiment to demonstrate the usefulness of sod in preventing soil erosion.
From the Ground and All Around
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts
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.
Fruit or Vegetable?
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Health
Students explore the difference between fruits and vegetables from different perspectives and develop their own definitions. Students discuss and research the role of government in assignment of food categories and import/export of produce.
Garden Grid
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Visual Arts, PE
Students will read about growing a garden and learn how much space each plant requires to grow. Using area and perimeter, students will create a grid and plan a garden, allowing sufficient space for each plant to grow. Students will construct newspaper pots and plant seeds or plants. They will devise experiments to see the effect they will have on plants and their growth. Students will create artwork depicting their favorite vegetables. Students will play a simple garden game as they scramble to get a chair.
Garden Guard
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Math
Students will work in small groups or individually to create scarecrows, write brief descriptions about them and display them in a class scarecrow show.
A Garden in a Mailbox
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will examine seed catalogs and find information about plants, growing seasons, etc.
George Washington on the Farm
Grades 3-5: Social Studies, Science, English Language Arts
Students learn about George Washington's contributions to American agriculture.
Geothermal Energy
Grades 4, 6-12; Science
Students will construct a steam turbine and and simulate conditions of geothermal energy.
Germination Observations
Grades K-3: Science, English Language Arts, Math
The students germinate seeds under a variety of conditions.
Germs are Everywhere: ELA
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts
Students will learn that germs are divided into categories. They will learn more about bacteria, viruses and fungi. Students will practice phonological awareness using the vocabulary words.
Germs are Everywhere: Health
Grades PreK-2: Health
Students will simulate how germs spread on surfaces and from person to person through interactive group and individual activities. Students will learn more about handwashing through songs and raps.
Germs are Everywhere: Math
Grades PreK-2: Math
Students will simulate how germs spread on surfaces and from person to person through interactive group and individual activities. Students measure how germs spread with tally marks and pictographs.
Get Growing
Grades K-2: English Language Arts, Science
Students read about what a plant needs to grow and conduct experiments related to plant needs.
Get the Point
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math
Students will read about longhorn cattle and answer comprehension questions. Students will measure the spans of longhorn horns from pictures included with this lesson and convert the measurements. Students will answer questions from a chart about numbers of cattle driven to market between 1867 and 1881 and graph the information.
Good Breeding
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Science
Students learn about common Oklahoma cattle breeds.
Good Grapes
Grades PreK-3: English Language Arts, Science, Math
Math activities with grapes, a fable and the growth cycle of grapes.
Goodness, Grady!
Grades 1-3: Math, English Language Arts
Students read the true story of Grady, the famous silo cow from Yukon, Oklahoma. Students engineer a way to rescue Grady from the silo. Students use creative writing to explain how they would rescue Grady.
Got Gluten?
Grades 7-8: Science
Students will conduct scientific demonstratons to compare the presence of gluten in different kinds of flour. Students will read two articles about gluten and answer comprehension questions, including a comparison of the two readings.
The Grain Game
Grades 1-2: Math, English Language Arts
Students use pieces of cereal made from grains grown in Oklahoma to play a counting game.
Great Balls of Fire
Grades 6-8: Science
Students investigate the flammability of natural and synthetic fabrics while practicing safe procedures.
Great Expectations
Grade 3: Science
The student will read charts for relevant information to solve mathematical word problems.
Grow a Living Pantry: Growing Food without Soil
Grades 5-8: English Language Arts, Science
Students will read about various ways to grow plants without soil, design and conduct experiments and explore root words and affixes related to the different growing methods.
Grow a Living Pantry: Growing Food without Soil
Grades 5-8: English Language Arts, Science
Students will read about various ways to grow plants without soil, design and conduct experiments and explore root words and affixes related to the different growing methods.
A Growing Market
Grades 6-7: Science
The student will research and grow a plant and present findings orally. They will determine space and resources needed for the plant to survive, as well as how the plant will pollinate.
A Handy Measure
Grades PreK-2: Math
Students are introduced to the method used for measuring horses.
Harvest the Wind
Grades 3-5: Science
Students read about wind power and wind farms, make a pin wheel and develop their own inventions for harvesting wind power.
Have You the Time of Day?
Grades K-2: Math, English Language Arts
Students read a story about a day in the life of a farmer and gain practice reading and writing time.
Head, Heart, Hands, Health
Grades 3-4: Social Studies
Students learn the history of 4-H, one of the oldest youth organizations, and use the information to compare and contrast other historical events.
Henrietta Vann and Wilson N. Jones
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about two of Oklahoma's Red Dirt Groundbreakers who farmed in Indian Territory before statehood.
A Hidden Beauty
Grades PreK-2: Science, English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Math
Students construct a model of a plant that grows from a bulb.
The History of Ethanol in America
Grades 6-7: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will explore the production of biofuels from the 1850s to the present.
History of Irrigation on the Great Plains
Grades 3-4: Social Studies
Students examine the history of irrigation on the Great Plains, create a timeline to organize information, locate the Great Plains on a US map and research to learn about irrigation around the world.
- Irrigation Museum (history, with timeline, from the Irrigation Association)
Hit the Trail
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Student draw three cattle trails that passed through Indian Territory, using a written description of the trails.
Hoboes on Harvest
Grades 6-12: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students read about the role Oklahoma's wheat fields played in the history of labor movements in the US.
Hogs on a Diet
Grades PreK-2: Math
Students will examine grains used in animal feed, sort the grains and use them to practice math facts.
Horse Cents
Grades 3-5: Math, English Language Arts
Students explore the mathematics of owning a horse.
A Horse of a Different Color
Grades PreK-2: Visual Arts
Students explore the diversity of horse coat colors.
Horseshoe Math
Grades 2-4: Math
Students will solve word problems related to horseshoes, classify a pile of shoes and perform other mathematical operations with shoes.
Hot off the Grill
Grade 6: Science
Students measure temperatures of hamburger patties both before and after cooking.
How Far Does It Travel? Exploring the Geography of Food
Grades 6-12: Social Studies, Math
Students compare the distances food travels from farm to table.
How Germs Spread for Grades 3-5
Grades 3-5: Health, Math, English Language Arts, Science
Students will conduct scientific experiments to learn how germs are spread. Students will participate in a simulation of how germs spread, analyze the data and express the results as a fraction of the whole and as a decimal. Students will simulate exposure to multiple germs simultaneously. Students will chart frequency and number of exposures.
How Germs Spread for Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8: Health, Math, English Language Arts, Science
Students will identify behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others. Students will conduct scientific experiments to learn how germs are spread. Students will research diseases and identify the classification, transmission, symptoms and prevention or control and write a research paper. Students will collect and analyze data and make statistical calculations.
How the Brahman Bull Got Its Hump
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science
The student compose a fictional story explaining how the Brahman bull got its hump.
How to Pick the Best
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Drama/Theater, Science, Social Studies, PE
Students will learn where common fruits and vegetables are grown and learn how to choose the best quality.
How to Pick the Best
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will learn where common fruits and vegetables are grown and learn how to choose the best quality.
How to Sneak Up on a Sheep
Grades: High School Geometry (Circles)
Students learn about a sheep's vision in relation to angles and degrees of a circle.
The Humble Beginnings of the Hamburger
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Student hear some claims regarding the hamburger's origins and then compose an original tall tale on the subject.
A Hundred Bales of Hay
Grades 1-3: Math
Students practice patterns on a hundreds chart while learning about hay production, past and present.
Hydropower
Grades 3-4, Science
Students will read and discuss hydroelectric power and create waterwheels
If Not for the Pollinators: Matching Flowers with Pollinators
Grades 4-7: Science
Students match flowers to pollinators and construct models of flowers to demonstrate why different kinds of flowers need different kinds of pollinators.
In Strawberry Fields
Grades 6-8: Math, Science
Students learn about strawberry production and compute wages of strawberry workers.
An International Menu
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students use dictionaries to research etymologies and explore the diverse origins of common foods we eat.
Jesse Chisholm and the Chisholm Trail
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who started the famous Chisholm Trail
John Kroutil: The Yukon Mills
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who served as President of Yukon Mill and Grain Company
John Simpson: A Radical Voice for Farmers
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who started the Farmers Union Insurance company.
A Journey through the Digestive System
Grades 3-5: Math, English Language Arts, Science, Health, PE
Students use math and science skills while taking a journey through the digestive system.
Juan Cruz Lujan and the Pastores
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who was a sheep herder.
Just Lookin' for a Home
Grades 3-6: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Music, Visual Arts
Students will learn a song about the boll weevil and use it to understand the impact agriculture has on a community and its economy.
Just Peachy
Grades 3-7: Social Studies, English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students trace the migration of peaches from China to Oklahoma and learn about the history of peach production in Oklahoma.
A Lending Hand
Grades 6-7: English Language Arts, Math
Students will read a story about Adam and how he earned money to buy a skateboard by selling vegetables he sold at the farmer's market. Students will learn how farmers finance their operations through the farm credit system.
Let It Rain
Grades 3-5: Science
Demonstrations showing students the effects of water erosion on soil.
Let's Get Together: Grafting Fruit and Pecan Trees
Grade 7: English Language Arts, Science; Grades 9-12: English Language Arts, Biology I
Students will read about the practice of grafting trees and plants and learn how it benefits production. Students will conduct a grafting experiment with tomato plants.
Little Red Hen
Grades PreK-3: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students read "The Little Red Hen," discuss careers involved in providing our food and act out a play based on the story. (Slow to load due to large picture files for puppet characters.)
Look Out, Below!
Grade 5: Science
Student learn the four layers of soil and identify the substances that make up each level.
Look! Up in the Sky! Agricultural Aviation
Grades 6-8: Social Studies, Math, Science, English Language Arts
Students read about the agricultural aviation industry and its history and answer comprehension questions. Students read about the division of land by townships and sections and use legal land descriptions to identify parcels of land in a map of a land section. Students answer math word problems related to agricultural aviation. Students conduct experiments with paper airplanes and O-Wings.
A Lovely Captive
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts
Students will construct a habitat which will allow them to observe the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
Lucille Mulhall: The First Cowgirl
Grade 3: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about a famous Oklahoma Cowgirl while stregthening their reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.
A Lucky Break
Grades 4-6: English Language Arts
Students will read about the ancient Etruscans and the origins of pulling the wishbone of a chicken a part for good luck, identify the main idea and supporting details of the passage, research to learn more about the ancient Etruscans, identify and decipher some common phrases in the English language related to poultry, learn the origins of some other poultry-related idioms, and use the idioms to write stories.
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Macaroni Math
Grades PreK-2: Math
Students use dry pasta in a variety of math activities
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Made from Animals
Grades PreK-2: Science, English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students match animals with the products they produce.
Make Mine Turkey
Grades 2-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Students learn to interpret data in grocery advertisements and compute costs by creating a menu and computing the cost of a turkey dinner.
Making the Most of Milk: Understanding Lactose Intolerance
Grades 8-12: Science
Students will learn what causes lactose intolerance and carry out a laboratory activity to test a treatment for lactose intolerance.
Making Paper
Grades 4-6: Visual Arts, Math, Science, English Language Arts
Students make paper from recycled paper.
Making Sense of Sensors: Sensors and Satellites in Ag Technology
Grades 6-12: Science, Social Studies
Students will read about technology in agriculture and focus on recent technology based on sensors. Students will conduct an experiment with infrared light to see how thermal imaging helps farmers determine the fertilizer needs of plants.
Manure Occurs: Managing Nutrients in Livestock Manure
Grades 6-8: Earth Science and Math
Students use the scientific method to test for the presence of nutrients in garden soil, manure and a mixture of the two. Students will use a table to determine which of three farm animals produces the greatest amount of manure.
A Market for Goats
Grades 6-7: Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will read about goat production in Oklahoma and learn about the market for goats among various ethnic groups. Students will research ethnic groups and holidays in which goat meat plays an important part. Students will look at several works of art related to goats and make a timeline of the paintings to show the role of goats in history. Students will research to find the origins of the paintings and locate the countries on a map of the world.
Math for Peanuts
Grades PreK-2: Math
Students estimate the number of peanuts in a peanut shell and graph the results.
Measuring Exponential Growth
Grades 6-8: Math
Students reinforce math skills while learning about best practices for protection of water quality in the management of animal feeding operations.
Melon Madness
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies
All about all kind of Oklahoma melons, with activities.
Melon Meiosis
Grades 6-12: Science
Students will learn how seedless watermelon were developed and model the process of mitosis and meiosis in watermelons, using jelly beans.
Melons in Prose and Poetry
Grades 6-10: English Language Arts
Students will compare and contrast a passage about watermelons written by Mark Twain and a poem about melons by Sylvia Plath.
Mighty Earth Movers
Grades PreK-3: Math, Science, English Language Arts
Students build a habitat for worms and record observations.
Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns
Grades PreK-2: Science, Math, English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students make the connection between seeds and trees by gathering and planting acorns.
Milk by the Gallon, Strawberries by the Quart
Grades 1-3: Math, English Language Arts
Students make a Scarecrow Conversion Chart and get practice converting units of measurement.
A Mixed Bag
Grades PreK-3: Health, Science, Math
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.
Mr. Goldman's Good Idea
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math
Students will read about Sylvan Goldman, the inventor of the shopping cart, create their own inventions, and solve math problems related to grocery shopping.
Modifying the Plow
Grades 3-5: Science, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Math
Students will learn how plows have been modified through the years to improve their use and impact on farming. Students will read about the Dust Bowl and discover how Oklahoman Fred Hoeme's modification of the plow helped reduce wind erosion. Students will design a plow replica using a variety of supplies and then test the effect the plow has on a tray of soil. Students will use the elements and principles of design to analyze artwork that portrays plowing fields. Students will discuss the artists portrayal of plowing a field.
Mud in the Water
Grades 5, 6, 8: Science
The student will build a soil erosion model and learn the importance of soil conservation.
Mushrooms, A Fungus among Us
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Students read background information about mushrooms and learn important vocabulary words related to mushrooms and fungus.
Mushrooms, A Poem
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts
Students read a poem describing the growth of mushrooms and guess what it is about. Students answer comprehension questions about the poem and compare with an information text.
Natural or Artificial
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Visual Arts
Students learn how artificial Christmas trees became popular and explore the advantages and disadvantages of using natural or artificial trees.
- Christmas Trees Facts
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Next Year's Seeds
Grades 1-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
The student will play a game demonstrating variables that affect the food supply.
The Nightshades: Tomatoes, Potatoes and Peppers
Grades 1-4: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts, Music
Many activities with tomatoes, potatoes and other nightshades
No Foot, No Horse
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts
Students learn the importance of the right kind of horseshoes for different horse activities
Norman Borlaug - Hunger Fighter
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Through classroom experiences, students will read about the research of Nobel Prize-winning plant breeder Norman Borlaug and conduct interviews with one another about
the reading. Students will describe Norman Borlaug's influence in beginning the Green Revolution, and apply concepts to current local and world events.
Norman Borlaug - Hunger Fighter
Grades 6-8: Math, Science
Through classroom experiences, students will solve math word problems related to the reading. They will conduct an experiment to isolate DNA in wheat germ. They will also describe Norman Borlaug's influence in beginning the Green Revolution and apply concepts to current local and world events.
Norman Borlaug - Hunger Fighter
Grades 9-12: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Through classroom experiences, students will learn about the research of Nobel Prize-winning plant breeder Norman Borlaug, do research, and write an essay to enter in the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute about Norman Borlaug's influence in beginning the Green Revolution, and apply concepts to current local and world events.
Norman Borlaug - Hunger Fighter
Grades 9-12: Math, Science
Through classroom experiences, students will solve math word problems related to the reading. They will conduct an experiment to isolate DNA in wheat germ. They will also describe Norman Borlaug's influence in beginning the Green Revolution and apply concepts to current local and world events.
Off to Work
Grades PreK-1: Social Studies
The student will become familiar with some jobs in agriculture.
Oh, Christmas Tree
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students will sequence facts based on the history of Christmas trees. Students will compare evergreen and deciduous trees and construct a model of an evergreen tree and label its parts.
- Christmas Trees Facts
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Oilmen Who Loved the Land: Samuel Lloyd Noble and Roy J Turner
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will discover how these two Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who loved oil impacted Oklahoma agriculture.
Oklahoma Ag Production Statistics
Grades 3-4: Social Studies
Students will graph information provided from Oklahoma agricultural production statistics, 1907 to statistics from the most recent census data. Students will answer questions from the census data.
Oklahoma Forests
Grades 2-3: Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students will use their senses to observe and write about a tree, read about Oklahoma forest regions, locate the different forest regions on a map of Oklahoma, create map legends based on the reading, and create models of trees.
Oklahoma Grown
Grade 3: Social Studies
The student will learn which Oklahoma crops grow in which counties.
Oklahoma Soils
Grades 3-8: Science, Social Studies
Students read about Oklahoma soils and how they were formed and answer questions from a chart showing the soils found in Oklahoma's major land resource areas.
Oklahoma Stone Soup
Grades K-4: Math, English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students learn about soups around the world and make an Oklahoma version of stone soup while reading the story.
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Oklahoma's Berry Best
Grades 1-5: Math, Science, English Language Arts, Social Studies
All about strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries
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Oklahoma's Hydroelectric Power Dams
Grades 9-12: Oklahoma History
Students will read about the hydroelectric power dams in Oklahoma and locate the rivers on which the dams are built.
Oklahoma's Inland Waterway: The McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System
Grades 3-4: Math, Social Studies
Students will read about river navigation and transportation of agricultural products by barge. Students will compare transportation by barge with transportation by truck and railroad. Students will build lock systems to see how barges move from one level to another.
Oklahoma's Other Oilfields
Grades 6-12: Science
Students learn about oilseed crops - canola, soybeans, cottonseeds and sunflower seeds - and how oil is extracted from them.
Oklahoma's Roots and Leafy Greens
Grades K-4: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts
All about root vegetables and leafy greens.
Organic or Conventional
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts
Students will break into groups to read information about organic and conventional agriculture and each group will teach its section to the other. Students will distinguish between fact and opinion. Students will identify different kinds of propaganda in reading material. Students will write research papers related to organic and conventional agriculture.
Pairing up with Pears
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Visual Arts
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.
Pancakes, Please for Grades 3-5
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, PE
Students will read about Pancake Tuesday, summarize the reading page, research pancakes from other countries and cultures and participate in a pancake race. Students conduct experiments, solve math problems and conduct research related to pancakes. Students will perform hands-on activities to understand how leavening agents work in a chemical reaction to make pancakes.
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Pancakes, Please for Grades 6-12
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, PE
Students will read about Pancake Tuesday, conduct further research and write a short play about the event for Pre-K - 2nd grade students and organize a pancake race for those students. Students will learn about pancakes in other cultures and choose one pancake and culture for in-depth research. Students will perform hands-on activities to understand chemical reactions with leavening agents which produce carbon dioxide in baked foods. Students will extract yeast from common foods. Students will apply mathematical principles to increase and decrease a recipe to produce the number of servings needed.
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Paper or Plastic? Exploring Rewewable Resources
Grades 6-8: Science, English Language Arts
Students discuss, develop, invent and implement a plan for making informed personal economic decisions about renewable resources.
The Peanut Wizard
Grade 4: Social Studies, English Language Arts
The student will read information about George Washington Carver and outline the information.
Peas, Please
Grades K-2: English Language Arts, Math, Science
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.
Pecan Fingerprints
Grades K-2: Science, English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students learn about themselves as individuals and understand that things in nature also have traits that distinguish them from all others.
Pickled Hay: How to Make Silage
Grades: High School: Biology I
Students will learn about silage used for feeding livestock and make their own silage from fresh cut grass.
Piece by Piece
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Visual Arts
The student will use geometric shapes made from construction paper to create an original quilt block, then write a brief history of the creation.
Pizza for Everyone
Grades 2-4: Math
Students brainstorm, web, gather data and graph information about pizza preferences.
Pizza Portions
Grades 6-7: Math, English Language Arts
Students read about pizza in groups and answer comprehension questions. Students use math skills to find what percentage of daily caloric intake is consumed when eating pizza.
Plant or Fungus? What is the Difference?
Grades 3-5: Science
Students will discuss the difference between mushrooms and plants while comparing the structure of mushrooms and flowers.
Plant Parts We Eat
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Visual Arts
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.
Playing in the Dirt: Discovering Soil
Grades 7-8: Science
Through classroom experiences, students will compare different types of soil found around their school and home to identify three basic soil components. Students will also develop an experiment to discover the effect of soil types on seed germination.
Playing in the Dirt: Discovering Soil
Grades 9-12: Science
Through classroom experiences, students will compare different types of soil found around their school and home to identify three basic soil components. Students will also develop an experiment to discover the effect of soil types on seed germination.
Plows on the Hunting Grounds: The Indian Allotment Act of 1887
Grades 9-12: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students read about the Indian Allotment Act of 1887 and discuss its impact on Oklahoma's Native American tribes and agriculture. Students interpret a map of Indian lands in Indian Territory in 1889.
Pollinator Habitats
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts, Science
Students research, interview experts and design pollinator habitats.
Pop, Pop, Popcorn for Grades 3-5
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students will discover the phenomenon of popcorn popping, discover the life cycle of a plant by growing a popcorn necklace, read about the history of popcorn while locating and paraphrasing the main idea and supporting details, and learn how matter is conserved as popcorn absorbs water.
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Pop, Pop, Popcorn for Grades PreK-2
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Visual Arts
Students will grow a popcorn necklace to discover the life cycle of a plant. Determine if popcorn needs sunlight and water to grow. Students will use popcorn kernels and popcorn to create and extend patterns. Students will make popcorn corsages or pictures. Students will use popcorn kernels and popcorn to count objects and sets of objects. Students will read about popcorn kernels and popcorn and answer questions to show a basic understanding of how popcorn pops.
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Potawatomi Farming
Grades 3-4: Social Studies, Science, English Language Arts
Students will read about farming among the Potawatomi. Students will compare two stories about maple syrup. Students will evaporate sugar water to demonstrate how the sap from a maple tree can become sugar.
Powerful Potato
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Visual Arts
The student will observe the growth process of a potato.
Preparing for Drought
Grades 6-8: World History
Students will explore the effects of drought in a variety of global contexts.
A Priceless Collection
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Science
Students will read a dramatic story about the Russian plant breeder, Nikolai I. Vavilov, who faced starvation during World War II to protect a valuable collection of seed potatoes and other seed crops. Students will learn about present-day seed banks and their importance in maintaining and improving crops. Students will experiment with seed germination and record their observations.
Problem Solvers: Fred Hoeme and Joseph Danne
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will discover how these two Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers impacted wheat production in Oklahoma.
Pumpkins by the Pound
Grades 1-3: Math
Students use pumpkins of various sizes to experiment with weight and perimeter.
Pumpkins, Squash, and Other Cucurbits
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Math
Students will learn about the group of vegetables known as cucurbits and use cucurbits in a variety of creative activities—writing plays using cucurbits, playing a hiding game with math and reading activities, writing haiku and interpreting cucurbit-related poetry. Students will use cucurbits in mapping activities. Students will use cucurbits in math activities—as nonstandard units of measure, practice with fractions, estimation, graphing, probabilities. Students conduct scientific experiments with squash. Students will use squash as the subject for still life works of art.
Punkin' Chunkin'
Grades 3-5: Science, STEM
Students will design and build prototypes of pumpkin catapults to launch mini pumpkins while exploring the phenomenon of force and energy. Students will measure and record the results of launching the pumpkins to discover the effect of force on the motion of the pumpkin and to predict future motion of the pumpkin. Students will design, test, and revise the catapults based on the measurements while discovering ways to convert energy from one form into another and learning that gravitational force is directed down.
A Purple Cow
Grades PreK-2: Visual Arts, English Language Arts, Math
Students learn to identify colors in nature and to observe objects under varying light conditions.
A Rafter of Turkeys
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Students compare supermarket turkey with wild and heritage breeds.
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Read Before You Eat
Grades 3-5: Health/Nutrition
Students learn to understand the nutrition labels on different foods and be prepared to make healthier food choices.
The Real Reader: A Cowboy's Life
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts
Students will read an account of cowboy life on the cattle trails and ask questions to determine which of three volunteer readers has the correct passage.
Red Dirt Groundbreakers
Grade 3: English Language Arts, Social Studies and Math; High School English Language Arts and Oklahoma History
Groundbreakers in the history of agriculture in Oklahoma.
The Role of Fire
Grades 6-8: Math, Science
At the end of this lesson students will be able to identify the roles of fire in the environment. Students will describe the danger of wildfires. Students will create recommendations for prescribed burning.
Rooftop Sandwich
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Math
Students create books showing the main ingredients of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
'Round and 'Round We Go: The Benefits of Crop Rotation
Grades 5-6: Science, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Students will read about crop rotation methods used on commercial farms in the US. Students will play a game to demonstrate crop rotation. Students will plant a wheat field.
Run, Girl, Run- Laura Ella Crews
Grades 3 and 9: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about the Oklahoma Red Dirt Groundbreakers who was the last survivor of the Cherokee Strip Land Run
Sandwich Feast
Grades 2-5: English Language Arts, Math
Students use sandwich ingredients to create books, practice punctuation and have a sandwich feast.
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Save Our Soil: Exploring Agricultural Land Use
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students will learn about the distribution of agricultural land through a demonstration with an apple representing the earth. Students will discuss the impacts of land development. Students will make land use decisions for a variety of situations and justify their decisions. Students will answer questions from a chart showing land use and ecosystem types in select countries from different regions.
- Apple as Earth animation (from American Farmland Trust)
Seed Swapping
Grades 1-3: Science, Math
Students will practice and review place values, using seeds as manipulatives.
The Shape of Things
Grades 6-8: Science, Math
The student will perform an experiment, using eggs, to test the strength of the dome shape.
Snack Sack
Grades 6-8: Math
Students experience the concepts of ratio and probability, using agricultural products that can be considered snack foods. Students analyze and record information from the class experience.
Snowball Fight
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Students will learn how snow helps crops grow and play a game using facts and words about snow.
Soak It Up
Grades 3-5: Science
Student do an experiment with different kinds of soil to observe how well each holds water and how organic matter increases
the amount of water soil will hold.
the amount of water soil will hold.
Sock Walk
Grades 1-4: Science, English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students take a walk wearing socks over their shoes to learn how some seeds travel.
Solar Cells, Panels, and Arrays
Grades 3-4, Science
Students will complete math equations relating to solar cells, panels, and arrays.
Sorghum Feeds Oklahoma Cattle
Grades 6-7: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Students read and answer questions about sorghum as a feed crop and as a grain crop in other parts of othe world. Students conduct taste tests and follow directions to make sorghum molasses gingerbread.
Soybeans All Around Us
Grades 2-4: Science, English Language Arts, Math
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.
Spiro Farming: Corn, Squash and Beans Build a Mighty Trade Center
High School: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students will read about farming practices among the people who populated the area around Spiro Mounds. Students will research to learn more about Spiro culture and other prehistoric farming cultures in Oklahoma. Students will identify the region in the US occupied by Mississippian culture. Students will trace the trade route along rivers and tributaries that joined Spiro with Mississippian ceremonial centers back east. Students will design experiments to demonstrate how agriculture might have started.
Spores to Compost
Grades 3-5: Science
Students read a poem describing the growth of mushrooms and guess what it is about. Students answer comprehension questions about the poem and compare with an information text.
Stick Horse Rodeo
Grades PreK-5: English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Math, PE
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.
Street Cows
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Science
Students will learn that cows come in many different shapes and sizes and will design their own art cows after reading a story about a popular travelling art exhibit.
The Sunny Sunflower Story
Grades 3-5: Science, Visual Arts, English Language Arts
Students will create models of sunflowers and use them to demonstrate how plants grow in relation to light while learning about phototropism. Students will create sunflower paintings similar to Vincent van Gogh's famous Sunflowers painting. Students will practice recognizing similes while reading poetry. Students will learn what plants need to grow by listening and responding to the story of a sunflower. Students will write facts about the life cycle of a sunflower.
Surveying: 19 Chains and 50 Links
Grades 6-8: Math, Social Studies
Students use geometric skills to practice the art of surveying.
Symbiosis in Agriculture
Grade 6: Science
Students compare insect relationships according to their symbiosis class—parasitism, commensalism, mutualism.
Taming the Wild Aurochs
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, World History
Students read about the development of animal husbandry, outline the information and arrange steps in sequence.
Territorial Children
Grades PreK-5: Social Studies, Math, Science, PE
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.
Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Harvest
Grades 4-5: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students learn about the thanksgiving celebrations of various North American tribes and compare myth and fact regarding Thanksgiving.
They Don't Just Eat Grass
Grades 5-8: Science, Math, Health
Students compare and contrast different energy values of feeds by graphing the net energy for maintenance and percentage of fat for a variety of feed types.
Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin for Grades 3-5
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Fine Arts, STEM
Students will "think in pictures" and become agricultural engineers by designing a corral system that uses the research of Dr. Temple Grandin to move cattle. Students will be challenged to think in pictures as they illustrate agriculture words. They will design a special shirt and scarf and write facts about Dr. Grandin. They will compare inventors and their inventions, creating a timeline with important dates for their lives.
Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin for Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Science, Fine Arts, STEM
Students will "think in pictures" and become agricultural engineers by designing a corral system that uses the research of Dr. Temple Grandin to move cattle. Students will be challenged to think in pictures as they illustrate agriculture words.
This Little Pig
Grades PreK-3: English Language Arts , Science
Students read about swine and complete worksheets on the reading and vocabulary. Students will compare and contrast different versions of the story of the Three Little Pigs and write their own versions.
Thomas Jefferson's Useful Plants
Grade 5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science
Students will read about Thomas Jefferson's efforts to find plants that would grow well in the new country. Students will taste and research unfamiliar fruits and vegetables, learn about Jefferson's instructions to Lewis and Clark and follow some of his instructions to explore a defined local area, experience successes and failures by growing a variety of plants from seed, discuss the pros and cons of introducing new plants to an ecosystem.
3-D Dairy: Graphing Dairy Production Statistics
Grades 6-8: Math
Students will graph Oklahoma dairy statistics
Three Sisters
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Health
Students will learn about the American Indian agricultural practice of Three Sisters planting. They will track food choices and make healthier food choices by eating more vegetables.
Time Line of the Land
Grades 3-5: Social Studies
Students construct time lines, using historical facts about the development of agriculture.
A Timeline of Agriculture in Oklahoma History
Grades 3-4: Social Studies
Students will use maps to trace historical migrations of different people coming to Oklahoma and leaving Oklahoma. Students will discuss economic cycles of prosperity and hard times for Oklahoma agriculture. Students will examine the impact of government on Oklahoma agriculture. Students will identify cause and effect in events in the history of Oklahoma agriculture.
Timing is Everything: The Harvest Depends on the Weather
Grades 6-7: Math, Science, Social Studies
Students will play a game to determine how much wheat a section of land will yield based upon a series of setbacks caused by weather, insects, etc. Students will read about the impacts of weather on wheat production. Students will use online resources to find statistics about wheat production and annual precipitation in Oklahoma. Students will graph the information.
Tortillas in a Bag
Grades 5-8: Science
Students follow instructions to make tortillas in a bag and learn about breads around the world.
A Tough Nut to Crack
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Students evaluate the quality of pecans based on a set of criteria.
A Trip to the Animal Fair
Grades K-2: English Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts
Students examine the needs of pets and other animals and compare them with their own needs.
Truth or Hogwash?
Grades 2-5: English Language Arts
Students will work in teams to play a game in which they answer true/false questions about swine and then research and develop questions of their own.
US Agriculture and the World Market
Grades 6-7: Social Studies
Students interpret agricultural import and export data in tabular form, determine percentages, convert values between measurement systems and graph information from tables.
Watermelon, Watermelon
Grades PreK-2: English Language Arts, Science, Math, Visual Arts, Music, PE
Students use melons for experiments with sound waves and displacement. Students create watermelon booklets, based on the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"
Weather Matters
Grades 3-4: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Visual Arts
Students will read about the effects of weather on agricultural production and explore the Oklahoma Mesonet site to find and graph local rainfall data. Students will examine weather-related works of art.
Weeds on the Windowsill
Grades 5-6: English Language Arts, Science
An examination of the need for pesticides. Students compare the results when they grow plants in two kinds of garden soil, one of which has been treated (by boiling water) to kill weed seeds and one which has not.
Wet and Wooly
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Science
The students will become familiar with vocabulary words pertaining to the production of sheep, conduct experiments with wool and create art from wool fleece.
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What Color are Mushroom Spores?
Grades 3-5: Science
Students conduct and experiment with a variety of mushrooms to discover the color their spores produce.
What is Drought?
Grades 6-8: Science
Students conduct an experiment to explore the effects of drought.
What is Gluten?
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts
Students will conduct scientific experiments to compare the presence of gluten in different kinds of flour.
What's at Your Tailgate?
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies
Students read about the history of tailgating and identify the agricultural sources of some typical foods and objects associated with tailgating. Students research and write about products used in tailgating and about festivals around the state. Student write creative stories about tailgate parties. Students use their math skills to plan a class tailgate party.
What's in Your Picnic Basket?
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math
Students read about the history of picnics and explore the agricultural source of several items associated with picnics.
What's Organic?
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Science
Student will examine the different meanings of the word "organic."
What's Your Brand?
Grades 1-3: English Language Arts, Art
Students will read about the history and purpose of branding cattle and answer comprehension questions. Students will design their own brands and write essays explaining them.
The Wheat Plant
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Science
The student will sequence stages in the life of a wheat plant and identify the six main parts of the wheat plant.
Wheat: From Field to Oven
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts
Student read some paragraphs about wheat production and identify the main idea and supporting statements for each one.
When the Sun Stands Still
Grades 3-5: English Language Arts, Math, Science
Students will discover the history of evergreen trees in celebrations of the Winter Solstice and how those traditions carry over into present-day observations. Students will engage in hands-on activities that illustrate how the earth’s tilt on its axis creates not only the shortest day but the seasons.
Which Little Piggy? Ear Notching
Grades 7-8: Math
Students identify procedures used to ear notch pigs and then read the ear notches to determine the pigs litter number and individual number.
Will Your Car Run on Grass? How Biomass Becomes Alcohol
Grades 6-8: Science
Students conduct experiments with yeast to determine what substances promote fermentation.
Woods, Lake, Rocks: Art of the Wild West at Woolaroc
Grades 6-8: English Language Arts, Visual Arts
Students will learn about the western art on display at Woolaroc museum near Bartlesville, research and write reports on some of the art and artists, and examine the elements of select works of art. Students will study the process for selecting the Pioneer Woman statue.
Working Watermelon
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Math, PE
Students will estimate, measure and collect data using watermelons. Students will read about watermelons.
World Trade
Grades 6-7: Social Studies, English Language Arts
Students use research skills to learn about world trade and the organizations which govern trade.
Yam and Eggs
Grades K-3: Social Studies, Math, Science
Encourage your students to try something different as they learn what people eat for breakfast around the world.
Your Food Dollar (and Cents)
Grades 2-4: English Language Arts, Math
Students learn where their food dollars go while getting practice recognizing coins and making change.
Your Future in Agriculture
Grades 6-12: English Language Arts
Students will explore and research a variety of careers in agriculture. Students will read about rapid advances in agriculture now and in American history.