OBJECTIVE

Students will identify the various jobs on a farm. Students will make the connection between jobs that animals do, and jobs that machines do.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

What are the jobs on a farm?

What are farm for?

MATERIALS NEEDED

Farm Animal note cards, Farm Machine note cards, Farm Jobs worksheet

PROCEDURE

Introduction:
Why do animals live one farms? What jobs do they do or what do we raised them for?
Ask students, “What are some jobs on a farm?” Make a list on the board.
Go through the jobs and ask students who does each of these jobs. Do animals? Do humans? Do machines?
Activity:
Hand out note cards – both animal and farm machine – to students. One per student. Give students 2 minutes to read their card to themselves. Ask if anyone has a question about any words on their card.
“Meet and greet” : students walk around the room, and shake hands with one another, introducing themselves as either their animal or their machine. When they find someone who has the same “farm job” as they do, they stand aside. Continue the game until everyone has found a machine/animal job match.

Wrap up/ Assessment:
On their Farm Jobs worksheet, students draw a picture of an animal and a machine that fulfill the same farm job. They also write a sentence about why that job is important on the farm.

MA CURRICULUM CONNECTION

1-LS1-1: Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.