Want to engage every student? Incorporate these lesson plan activities into your classroom for active learning. Active learning leads to deeper learning and increased critical thinking. These activities allow students to learn through many of their senses, while aligning to Nebraska State Education Content Standards.
Grades
Agricultural Products
Grade: 2nd
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Math | Language Arts
Connect how common items used every day contain agricultural products.
Agricultural Transportation
Grade: 4th
Core Subjects: Social Studies
Students use a map to plan routes, locate rivers, towns, and points of interest.
Agriculture is Everywhere
Grade: 3rd, 4th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Social Studies
Identify how what we eat and products we use in our everyday lives are connected to agriculture.
Agriculture - The Center of an Economic Web
Grade: 4th
Core Subjects: Social Studies
Understand the interdependence of producers and consumers.
The Apple Cycle
Grade: K, 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Science | Social Studies
Understand and model the apple life cycle and relate it to other agricultural plants.
Cheeseburger Map
Grade: 2nd, 3rd
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Math
Use a map to answer questions about locations and distances.
Corn Calculations
Grade: 4th, 5th
Core Subjects: Math
Learn how to calculate number of kernels on an ear and bushels per acre and gather data to calculate minimum, maximum, mode, median and range.
Earth’s Resources
Grade: 5th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Science | Social Studies
Understand the difference between consumption, conservation and preservation of Earth’s resources in our environment and in agriculture.
Edible Plant Parts
Grade: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Core Subjects: Science
Identify whether common plants we eat are seeds, roots, stems, leaves, fruits or flowers.
Farming in a Glove
Grade: 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Science | Language Arts
Students will follow instructions to grow four different types of seeds.
Food Products
Grade: 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Science
Identify agricultural ingredients that go into food products we eat.
Food Systems Feed the World
Grade: 5th, 6th, 8th
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Language Arts
Understand the basic parts of the food chain.
Futures Farming
Grade: 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Math
Understand the basic concept of selling commodities on the futures market.
Life of a Tree Enactment
Grade: K, 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Science | Language Arts
Students will act out the life cycle of a tree.
Make & Eat Soil Profile
Grade: K, 1st, 2nd, 5th
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Science
Students will use a hands-on model to build a soil profile.
My Ag Roots
Grade: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subjects: Social Studies
Research student’s past to create a family tree and identify careers in agriculture.
Nutritional Snack
Grade: 6th
Core Subjects: Math
Understand basic nutritional needs of certain farm animals.
Our World – Soil & Water
Grade: 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subjects: Math | Social Studies | Science
Create a model that fractionally represents the amount of earth’s usable soil.
See DNA Without a Microscope
Grade: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subjects: Science
Model DNA extraction using a wheat germ.
There’s a Watershed in My Backyard
Grade: 3rd, 4th, 5th
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Science
Use a model to illustrate a watershed and how pollution impacts the watershed.
Wad-A-Watershed
Grade: 5th
Core Subjects: Social Studies | Science
Explain a watershed, how water flows and how people impact the quality of our water.