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4-H Goat Activity Page
In this 4-H animal science worksheet, students will work with their parents and leaders to create goat project plan of what they want to learn in the year. Students will keep track of their goat related activities and complete a word...
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4-H Goat Activity Page
In this 4-H animal science worksheet, students will work with their parents and leaders to plan and implement a goat-raising project. Students can get information about goats and keep track of their progress on this worksheet.
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Summer Lessons: dairy
Students learn about dairy products by sampling food, making food, going to the grocery store, and more. In this dairy lesson plan, students also have coloring pages to complete.
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National Dairy Month
Students make ice cream, make lists of dairy products, discuss cows, and more to celebrate National Dairy Month. In this dairy lesson plan, students also sing songs about dairy.
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The Fable of Franny And Her Fabulous Fainting Goat
Mix the art of reading comprehension with the skill of telling time. Children in grades two and three will discuss the importance of goats throughout history based on the provided background information. They'll create cute goat...
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THE FABLE OF THE FAINTING GOATS
Students practice telling time while reading a story about a fainting goat. They write their own story about a fainting goat. Students write letters to the International Fainting Goat Association, asking for more information about...
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Better Butter
Students explore the process of making butter. In this agriculture lesson, students discuss how butter is made today and how it was made in the past. Students make their own butter using baby food jars and some "elbow grease."
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Fable of the Fainting Goat
Students read a story. For this telling time lesson, students complete a worksheet where they must practice their knowledge of telling time. Students read a fable and answer time questions as they read.
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4-H Food Science Activity Page- Life Skill- Healthy Lifestyle Choices
In this 4-H food science worksheet set, student investigate safe food handling procedures, create a recipe to share, identify the types of meats that are found at their local grocery store, and identify five dairy products. They complete...
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Agriculture Defined
Open your Agriculture 101 course with a lesson on defining agriculture. Guide your class with thought-provoking questions and discussion. Give them time to play the card game, "Pit" in order to experience commodity exchange. This is a...
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Milk
Milk: It does a body good ... or does it? Using the provided website, scholars sort through information to answer the question. They review a chart demonstrating lactose intolerance by ethnicity and region, and they also compare the...
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Animals on the Farm
Students work in groups to create a description of a farm animal. Other classmates try to guess the animal. The class discusses what farmers need to provide for each animal on their farm (food, shelter, veterinary care). Students...
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Ag in My Community; Agriculture
Students build knowledge about agriculture as it relates to their communities' commodities. In this agriculture lesson, students brainstorm about conditions in their community with regards to growing different types...
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WHO CARES FOR THE LAND?
Young scholars explore the importance of natural resources. They are given copies of the story, "Who Cares For The Land," and students follow
along as the teacher reads it. Young scholars identify the key points in the story. (Soil,...
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The Puffed Up Pig Reading Comprehension
In this comprehension instructional activity, students read the 3 page story The Puffed Up Pig and answer short answer and multiple choice questions about it. Students answer 5 questions total.
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Fur, Feathers and Fins
Students examine the stages between growing the animal and buying it at the grocery store. In food system lesson students study the role that animal products have on nutrition and study animal agriculture.
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LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE WALKING
The student will recognize different information sources. 2. The student will use a telephone book as a resource for locating agricultural businesses
and people with agriculture-related jobs.Discuss the purpose of the phone book, and...
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Agriculture
Students examine the types of agriculture in their own state and in their local community. They examine how food makes it to their local grocery store. They compare data from different states.
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Canadian Agricultural and Food Museum (Caf)
Under the heading "Tour of the Museum," there are excellent links to information on dairy farms, small animals found in the barn, horses, beef cattle, and more! There are also teachers kits available through this site that are meant to...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Nuristanis
The area known as Nuristan is located at the southern end of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan. There are limited amounts of arable land in the Hindu Kush, but there are abundant amounts of pastureland well suited for...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Afar
The Afar occupy an area of Djibouti and northeastern Ethiopia, sometimes called the Afar Triangle. There is a long history of hostility between the Afar and the surrounding groups; the Afar are often considered fierce and warlike. The...