L1:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

A Garden Plot: The Tale of Peter Rabbit: Students will identify foods grown in a garden, observe various types of seed and grow their own milk jug garden. Students will hear “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter and learn about produce that is grown in gardens or on farms.

Agriculture Pays: Students will recognize that agricultural careers are interconnected and that agriculture influences many parts of their daily lives.

Agriculture and Me: Students will categorize sources of basic agricultural products alphabetically.

Animal or Plant?: Students will learn about the sources of different foods by differentiating between foods originating from plants and foods originating from animals.

From Chicken Little to Chicken Big: Students will identify different breeds of chickens, examine physical characteristics and determine the stages of a chicken's life cycle.

Fruit and Vegetable Bingo: Students will recognize the names of different fruits and vegetables and understand why they are important.

Sunflower Life Cycles: Students will learn about the growth and development of sunflowers, identify how sunflower seeds are used and make a paper plate sunflower illustrating the life cycle of the sunflower.

The Amazing Honey Bee: Students will investigate the three types of honey bees in a colony, identify their roles and recognize honey bees as part of a community that works together.

Who Grew My Soup?: Students will identify the source of the food they eat and investigate the processes and people involved in getting food from the farm to their spoons.

L3:
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.

Eggs: From Hen to Home: Students will trace the production path of eggs, beginning on the farm and ending in their homes. Students will also identify the culinary uses and nutritional benefits of eggs.

Fabulous Flowers: The purpose of this lesson is to review the functions of flowers and to help students understand that some flowers are edible.

Milk or Meat? Beef or Dairy?: Students will identify the differences between beef and dairy cattle and determine the commodities produced by each type of cattle.

L4:
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten/1st/2nd reading and content.

Farm Animal Life Cycles: Students investigate six major livestock species, discover that animals need air, space, food, water, and shelter to survive, explore the life cycle of a farm animal, and identify the products each farm animal produces.

My Farm Web: Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm.

L5:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

My Healthy Plate: Students will become familiar with the foods they eat and healthy eating habits while learning about the MyPlate food campaign. This lesson introduces students to the concept of MyPlate while placing foods they eat into categories for eating a balanced diet.

L6:
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

A Day Without Agriculture: Students explore the wide scope of agriculture, identify the variety of agricultural products they use in their daily lives, and discuss the difference between needs and wants.

Bean Seed Cycle: This lesson introduces students to how soybeans are grown by farmers, teaches seed anatomy through a seed dissection activity, and illustrates the germination of the soybean plant. 

Eating Plants: Students will identify the structure and function of six plant parts and classify fruits and vegetables according to which parts of the plants are edible.

Eggology: Students will identify how the basic needs of a growing chick are met during egg incubation. Activities include identifying and diagramming the parts of an egg and hatching eggs in class.

Exploring Texture in the Garden: Students will learn about living and nonliving things, how nonliving resources help sustain plant life, and visual arts techniques through an examination of texture in the natural world. Activities include collecting and categorizing items from the natural environment, creating seed and soil mosaics, making clay imprints, and coloring cloth with plant materials.

Hatching Science with Classroom Chicks: Students will explore how an embryo develops inside of a chicken egg over time, discuss life cycles and other natural cycles, and observe similarities and differences between parents and offspring.

Pancakes!: Students will describe the physical properties of materials and observe physical and chemical changes as they learn about the ingredients in pancakes and how maple syrup is harvested from trees.

Snappy Stems: Students will learn the function of plant stems and identify edible stems belonging to certain plants.

A Search for the Source: Students determine that agriculture provides nearly all of the products we rely on in any given day by participating in a relay where they match an everyday items with its “source.”

Texturing: The Big Picture: Students will explore soil textures and investigate the connections between soil texture, water and plant growth. Activities include classifying the texture of sandpaper, using the dirt shake method to identify differences in soil texture, and observing seed germination in different types of soils.

Vermicomposting: The class will create a worm bin which will serve as a basis for investigations about ecosystems, life and nutrient cycles, and decomposition.