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 Lesson Plans — Great Pumpkins |
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Grade 1 Lesson Plans
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Butterflies
 Students will describe the life cycle of the butterfly/moth, correctly identify which insect is a moth and which is a butterfly, and learn new vocabulary as it relates to butterflies, moths, and caterpillars. Search outside for eggs, cocoons, butterflies, or moths. Acquire a butterfly and watch it grow from a caterpillar to an adult butterfly. Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Cane.
Poultry
Complete a puzzle to discover a hen by either coloring the correct categories or words or coloring the correct pictures according to the color key. Complete this lesson in conjunction with the other poultry/egg lessons.
Pumpkin Patch
Your students will learn new words relating to pumpkins, compile simple sentences about pumpkins, and describe foods made from pumpkins. Assemble a bulletin board and have students put paper pumpkins on it. On each pumpkin put nouns, verbs, or adjectives that pertain to pumpkins. Assemble sentences with the pumpkins.
Rice
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to describe how rice grows. This lesson comes with a worksheet, rice information for the teacher to share with the students, and a story of how rice is harvested.
The New MacDonald's Farm
This lesson will teach students that agriculture is no longer what it was in the song. Teach students the traditional version of Old MacDonald, and then teach the new version provided. Use the lesson "Yesterday or Today" in conjunction.
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| Mathematics |
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Animals and Young
At the end of this lesson, the students will understand that animals produce different numbers of offspring. They will also develop correct vocabulary of animals and their offspring. Complete a worksheet, discuss why animals have different numbers of offspring, and do the animal dot-to-dot activity provided.
Apples
This lesson teaches students that young apple trees produce fewer apples than mature trees. Three worksheets are provided.
Egg Math
This lesson includes information on hens and chicks as well as four worksheets for students. Also comes with a counting activity.
Evergreen Tree
This lesson is a method of utilizing measurement and art to explore the structure and symmetry of a coniferous tree. Students will use a ruler to make measurements, draw lines, and create triangles, and a rectangle. These shapes can then be assembled into a tree.
Time
An apple tree will be five years old before it produces any quantity of apples. This lesson compares the timing of these types of agricultural facts with the timing of various student facts and figures. Students will compare time, as they know it, with growing plants and seasons. They will also be able to read a number line! timeline of plant growth.
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Egg People
This lesson is a fun way to teach students how grass sprouts while considering an alternative use for something commonly thought of as a waste product. This is done by growing grass (for hair) in an egg shell to make an "egg person." The same activity can be done with potatoes instead of eggs.
Insect Anatomy
Explore insect anatomy by making insects out of pipe cleaners, construction paper, Styrofoam peanuts, and toothpicks. This lesson assists students in learning that insects differ from spiders and that caterpillars may or may not have many legs.
Life Cycle
As the school year begins, students will often see moths and butterflies, caterpillars, and or chrysalis. The life cycle of Eggs to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly to eggs is easily seen through the school year. At the end, students will understand that there is a science which studies insects, will be able to describe the life cycle of butterflies/moths, and will be able to answer the question - where do butterflies/moths come from?
Poultry and Eggs
Many of us have wondered - How do people make eggs bounce? Or drop them into the thin neck of a bottle? How can you tell if an egg is cooked or raw? These eggs-periments will clue you in.
Pumpkins
A great Halloween time lesson! Bring in real pumpkins to the class or make some papier-m'ch' pumpkins. Have the students make pumpkin pencils, pumpkin puppets, jack-o-lanterns, and pumpkin seeds for the class to eat. Share with them some Halloween history and the life cycles of pumpkins.
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Animal Products
This lesson begins a process to introduce students to some information about animal agriculture, which will be reinforced in future Agriculture in the Classroom materials. Students will list animals and a product they produce and correctly use vocabulary words in relation to animals.
Eggs
This lesson will teach students where eggs come from by tracing the path from hen to table. Match eggs to the birds which produce them, complete the "egg maze," and discuss what other animals lay eggs with or without shells.
Potatoes and Potato Stamps
Potatoes are one of the most popular foods in the world. These activities will only begin to cover the wide variety of information about potatoes, such as: where potatoes come from, how potatoes are grown, and foods made from potatoes.
Tomatoes and Potatoes
This lesson will make students aware of how pumpkins, tomatoes, and potatoes grow and how they are used. At the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe where some foods made of tomatoes and pumpkins come from, as well as identify that potatoes grow underground. They will learn new words relating to tomatoes and potatoes, and compile simple sentences about tomatoes, potatoes, and foods made from them.
Yesterday or Today
One of the common misconceptions of agriculture is that it is an industry without technology. In truth it is one of the most technologically advanced industries in the world. At the end of this lesson the students will describe that tools and ways change over time by following how agriculture has evolved over the years. Use in conjunction with "New MacDonald's Farm" Lesson.
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