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Crazy Quilts
Young scholars research women's roles in agriculture's history and how they have changed. They create a paper "crazy quilt" using a variety of colors and pattersn to help them explain the role of quilts in women's history.
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Finding Simple Machines in Farm Machinery
Students identify simple machines and how they must work together to form a piece of equipment used in agriculture. They create a diagram of a piece of farm equipment and write about two of the simple machines they drew.
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Farmers and Growers
Learners explore the lives and work of the farmers and growers of specialty crops of the West. The amount of land and natural resources needed, the fertilizers utilized, and the market available for the crops are investigated in this...
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Trading Agricultural Products Internationally
Students explain the importance of international trade on American lifestyles, summarize the history of global agriculture in the last half of the 20th century, describe the role of trade among nations and barriers that exist.
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From These Beginnings
Students prepare a bulletin board that shows the changing identity of their state before and after statehood.