California Academy of Sciences: Knee-Deep in Green Peppers
Students use green peppers as a concrete example of high reproductive potential. By participating in this activity, students will come to understand that organisms often produce more offspring than their environment can support, which leads to natural selection and population evolution.
National Ag in the Classroom: Potatoes- More than Fries
Students investigate potato varieties, explore potato plants, determine how potatoes grow, and make a potato recipe.
Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom: The Nightshades
Students will learn about foods we eat from the nightshade family and participate in activities related to the nightshades, including spelling, creative writing, scientific experiments with tomatoes and potatoes, math activities using potatoes, visual art activities with potatoes and tomatoes, map reading activities and practice reading a chart about the hotness of peppers.
National Ag in the Classroom: The Soil Chain
Students recognize their relationship to soil and model the connections between common objects and the soil.
National Ag in the Classroom: It’s a Dirty Job
In this lesson, students will create mini habitats to observe earthworm behavior and learn about the important role that earthworms play in decomposition and plant growth.
National Ag in the Classroom: Working Worms
Students observe how earthworms speed the decomposition of organic matter and identify how this adds nutrients to the soil that are important for plant growth by constructing worm habitats from milk jugs
National Ag in the Classroom: Vermicomposting
Students create a worm bin which will serve as a basis for investigations about ecosystems, life and nutrient cycles, and decomposition.
National Ag in the Classroom: Vermicomposting
Students create a worm bin which will serve as a basis for investigations about ecosystems, life and nutrient cycles, and decomposition
Oregon Harvest for Schools: Please Don’t “Turnip” Your Nose at Me
Turnips are generally not considered a “common” food among American palates. To bring recognition to the turnip, and other lesser-known foods, students will develop an ad campaign celebrating the turnip or other uncommon vegetables.
Georgia Organics: Turnips Through Time Lesson Series
In this three part lesson series, students are given the opportunities to explore turnips. From the “Turnip Winter” during World War I to the various ways turnips appear in folktales, these lessons give students a chance to explore how turnips have impacted society over time while also calling upon them to practice informative, narrative, and … Continued