Agriculture Learning Tips and Suggestions for 3rd and 4th Graders
Our favorite lessons and activities for 3rd and 4th Graders for in the classroom or on the farm.
Reading List from American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture - There is a filter tool to choose a theme and reading age.
Be sure to check out these lessons:
3rd Grade Science
3-LS4-3 - Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat, some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
Horse: Coat Color and Camouflage (Watch – Horse Park)
Soybean: Let’s Sprout a Soybean (Watch – Soybean Farm)
Horse: It’s in the Water (Watch – Horse Park)
Horse: Shelter & Space Building (Watch – Horse Park)
Create a Modern Pig Barn (Watch – Pig Farm)
3-LS4-4 - Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
Create a Modern Pig Barn (Watch – Pig Farm)
3-LS1-1 - Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles, but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
Soybean: Let’s Sprout a Soybean (Watch – Soybean Farm)
Corn in the Classroom - Lesson 1 (Watch – Corn Farm)
Apple Tree Life Cycle (Watch – Apple Orchard)
3-LS3-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
Horse: Coat Color and Camouflage (Watch – Horse Park)
3-LS3-2 - Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Horse: It’s in the Water (Watch – Horse Park)
Horse: Coat Color and Camouflage (Watch – Horse Park)
3-LS4-2 - Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
Horse: Coat Color and Camouflage (Watch – Horse Park)
3-ESS2-1 - Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
3-ESS2-2 - Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
3-ESS3-1 - Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
3-5-ETS1-1 - Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Horse: Shelter & Space Building (Watch – Horse Park)
Create a Modern Pig Barn (Watch – Pig Farm)
3-5-ETS1-2 - Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Horse: Shelter & Space Building (Watch – Horse Park)
Create a Modern Pig Barn (Watch – Pig Farm)
3-5-ETS1-3 - Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled, and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
4th Grade Science
4-PS4-2 - Develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
4-LS1-1 - Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4-LS1-2 - Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.