Garden Collage

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify their favorite fruits and vegetables Students will decide collaboratively what to grow in the garden ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are your favorite fruits and vegetables? What should we grow in our garden? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction Explain to the class that we are going to start to think about […]

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A Year of Gardening Calendar

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to act out different tasks that are done in the garden Students will be able to write a sentence to describe gardening tasks for each month Students will be able to number the days in the month. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS How do we plan a garden? When do our plants grow? […]

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Wet Felting Craft

OBJECTIVE Students will wet felt wool Students will process fiber ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Why do sheep live on farms? What can be made from wool? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Directions: FOLLOW UP & EXTENSIONS

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Farm Vocabulary

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to match the farm animals, tools, or machines to its description ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What are farms for? What are the jobs on a farm? Why do animals live on farms? MATERIALS NEEDED PROCEDURE Introduction:We have been talking a lot about farms, and now I think we are ready to start […]

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Machines and Animals on the Farm

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 […]

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Farm Animal Introduction

OBJECTIVE Students will be able to identify different farm animals and describe their characteristics. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What types of animals live on farms? What do farm animals do? MATERIALS NEEDED Farm Animal Worksheet PROCEDURE Introduction:In circle: Review some facts that students know about farms from the KWL sheet. Ask the students to name as many […]

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