Agriculture Learning Tips and Suggestions for 5th and 6th Graders

 

Our favorite lessons and activities for 5th and 6th 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:

5th Grade Social Studies

5.E.MI.1 - Explain the relationship between supply and demand.

5.E.ST.1 - Explain how specialization, comparative advantage, and competition influence the production and exchange of goods and services in an interdependent economy.

5.G.MM.1 - Analyze how cultural, economic and environmental factors encouraged and restricted the movement of people, ideas and goods to and within the United States.

5.G.HE.1 - Explain how cultural and environmental changes impact population distribution and influence how people modify and adapt to their environments.

5.G.GR.1 - Use a variety of maps, satellite images, and other models to explain the relationships between the location of places and regions and their human and environmental characteristics.

5.G.KGE.1 - Compare the lives of Kentucky settlers to those living in other areas during the early years of the United States.

5.H.CH.2 - Analyze the impact innovation and human ingenuity had on the development of the United States from Colonization to Constitution.

5.H.CE.3 - Describe the social and economic impact of the slave trade on diverse groups.

5.H.KH.1 - Describe the role of Kentucky settlers in the American Revolution.

MATHEMATICS

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These lessons focus on math that meets 5th grade standards:

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5th & 6th Grade Science

5-PS1-3 - Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.

5-PS1-4 - Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.

5-PS3-1 - Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.

5-LS2-1 - Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

5-ESS2-1 - Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

5-ESS2-2 - Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

5-ESS3-1 - Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use scientific ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

6-PS1-3 Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.

6-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

6-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

6-LS2-2 Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

6-ESS2-4 Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.

MS-ETS1-1 Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions

MS-ETS1-2 Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

InformationJennifer Elwell