Lessons

New Lessons

Food Production on Earth and Beyond! (grades 3-6)
Locally Grown (grades 4-12)

Commodity Readers

These Commodity Readers and sample test questions were financed by a USDA grant and written in collaboration with Illinois and Ohio Ag in the Classroom programs. They are designed to examine agriculture as it relates to Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts. These readers are a way to expose students to non-fiction based text. The sample questions can be answered using the text and are designed to take about 10 minutes per subject area.

Arizona Specialty Crop Lessons

These 30 lessons were written by 16 Arizona teachers. All lessons teach about Arizona's specialty crop industry and they have been aligned to Arizona's Academic Standards. Each lesson encompasses more than one subject area.

K-3rd Grade

"A is for Apple"	Apple: Bare to Pick	Apple: Kinds to Products
Apple: Seed to Tree	Buzzing Bee's Wardrobe	Do the Honeybee Dance!
From Mashed to Riches	How Busy are Bees?	Those Busy, Buzz'n Worker Bees
To Bee or Not to Bee

4th - 6th Grade

Arizona!!! How the Heck Did I End Up Here???	Can You Walk on Eggs?	Getting to the Root of the Matter
How Do Plants Make Food?	I'm Here, I'm There, I'm Everywhere - I'm Super Spud!	Let's Make Stew
Mmmmm, I'm Good! But am I Good for You?	Pecan Power!	Plant Seedling
Soggy Seeds	Survival of the Fittest	The Day an Egg Solved the Mystery of the Cell
This Can't be a Plant	Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

7th - 9th Grade

Let Us Learn About Lettuce

What to Do with Malusdomestica, Cultivated Apples?

10th - 12th Grade

Don't Wait, Just Propagate!	If it Smells Good, is Edible, and Attracts Wildlife, Then it is a Practical Garden	Plants, Plants, and More Plants
Where Do they Go?