Lesson Plan Activities

Want to engage every student? Incorporate these lesson plan activities into your classroom for active learning. Active learning leads to deeper learning and increased critical thinking. These activities allow students to learn through many of their senses, while aligning to Nebraska State Education Content Standards.

Grades
Agricultural Products

Grade: 2nd
Core Subjects: Language Arts Math | Social Studies

Connect how common items used every day contain agricultural products.

Agricultural Transportation

Grade: 4th
Core Subject: Social Studies

Students use a map to plan routes, locate rivers, towns, and points of interest.

Agriculture is Everywhere

Grades: 3rd, 4th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Social Studies

Identify how what we eat and products we use in our everyday lives are connected to agriculture.

Agriculture – The Center of an Economic Web

Grade: 4th
Core Subject: Social Studies

Understand the interdependence of producers and consumers.

The Apple Cycle

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Science | Social Studies

Understand and model the apple life cycle and relate it to other agricultural plants.

Cheeseburger Map

Grades: 2nd, 3rd
Core Subjects: Math | Social Studies

Use a map to answer questions about locations and distances.

Corn Calculations

Grades: 4th, 5th
Core Subject: Math

Learn how to calculate number of kernels on an ear and bushels per acre and gather data to calculate minimum, maximum, mode, median and range.

Earth’s Resources

Grade: 5th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Science | Social Studies

Understand the difference between consumption, conservation and preservation of Earth’s resources in our environment and in agriculture.

Edible Plant Parts

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Core Subject: Science

Identify whether common plants we eat are seeds, roots, stems, leaves, fruits or flowers.

Farming in a Glove

Grades: 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Science

Students will follow instructions to grow four different types of seeds.

Food Products

Grades: 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Science | Social Studies

Identify agricultural ingredients that go into food products we eat.

Food Systems Feed the World

Grades: 5th, 6th, 8th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Social Studies

Understand the basic parts of the food chain.

Futures Farming

Grades: 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Math

Understand the basic concept of selling commodities on the futures market.

The Great Pumpkin

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Science

Understand and model the pumpkin life cycle and relate it to other agricultural plants.

Life of a Tree Enactment

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd
Core Subjects: Language Arts | Science

Students will act out the life cycle of a tree.

Make & Eat Soil Profile

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd, 5th
Core Subjects: Science | Social Studies

Students will use a hands-on model to build a soil profile.

My Ag Roots

Grades: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subject: Social Studies

Research student’s past to create a family tree and identify careers in agriculture.

Nutritional Snack

Grade: 6th
Core Subject: Math

Understand basic nutritional needs of certain farm animals.

Our World – Soil & Water

Grades: 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subjects: Math | Social Studies | Science

Create a model that fractionally represents the amount of earth’s usable soil.

See DNA Without a Microscope

Grades: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Core Subject: Science

Model DNA extraction using a wheat germ.

There’s a Watershed in My Backyard

Grades: 3rd, 4th, 5th
Core Subjects: Science| Social Studies

Use a model to illustrate a watershed and how pollution impacts the watershed.

Wad-A-Watershed

Grade: 5th
Core Subjects: Science | Social Studies

Explain a watershed, how water flows and how people impact the quality of our water.