Become
familiar with the farm and learn all about people in the community that work on
or around the farm.
This
WebQuest can be done as a class for younger students. It is designed for kindergarten through
second grade, but can be made more complex for older students.
Read the book Farming by Gail Gibbons.
While reading, especially show the students different pictures throughout
the book.
Watch Farmer Brown run all over the world!
This interactive movie is geared for lower grades and will help the students recognize different farm scenes. You will need sound and online movie
capabilities in your classroom.
If you click on each picture, a page about each job will come up. At the bottom of the page there is a
suggested book to read to go along with
each career.
There
is also an activity to complete along with each job.
These can be done after you introduce each job, or can be used as a reviewing tool if you introduce all the jobs in a row. You can encourage the students to keep
all of their activities, or you can
bind them together by punching holes and stringing the holes together.
Each student
will need:
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coloring tools
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pencil
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activity sheet
Each student
will need:
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scissors
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coloring tools
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pencil
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glue
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activity sheets
Each student
will need:
«
pencil
«
coloring Tools
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activity sheet
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If your students cannot connect the dots in order, tell them to try and connect
them by drawing a line around the picture.
Each student
will need:
«
pencil
«
coloring Tools
«
activity sheet
Each student
will need:
«
pencil
«
coloring Tools
«
activity sheet
Students
will each make a vest about the career they chose out of the 5 studied. Encourage student to bring in a brown
paper bag prior to this activity.
Follow the
lesson plan found here,
from the Iowa Farm Bureau.
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The lesson calls for a brain storm of different careers in agriculture, but have
the students recall the 5 studied.
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Create a model that the students could trace for their vest.
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If you have an old Boy Scout or Girl Scout vest with patches, you can bring that
in as an example of a vest that represents something with pictures and drawings.
For the
vest:
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Check to make sure the student wrote the name of the career on the vest.
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Check to make sure the student decorated the vest with appropriate pictures and
drawings of their and related careers.
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Check to make sure the vest is correctly cut from the model and can be worn by
the student.
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Check to make sure the vest shows effort.
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Talk to each student about their vest.
Have the student tell you about their drawings and things placed on the vest.
For the
activities:
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Check to make sure the correct colors were used on the picture.
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Check to make sure the student followed the directions.
For a
complete list of
Kindergarten
History
K.6 The student will
match simple descriptions of work that people do with the names of those jobs.
English
K.1
The student will demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) Listen
to a variety of literary forms, including stories and poems.
b)
Participate in choral speaking and recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and
stories with repeated patterns.
K.12 The student will explore the
uses of available technology for reading and writing.
Math
K.2 The student, given
a set containing 10 or fewer concrete items, will
a)
tell how many are in the set by counting the number of items orally;
b)
select the corresponding numeral from a given set; and
c) write the numeral to tell how many are in
the set.
First Grade
History
1.12 The student will recognize
that communities in
English
1.1 The student
will continue to demonstrate growth in the use of oral language.
a) Listen
and respond to a variety of media, including books, audiotapes, videos, and
other age-appropriate materials.
c) Participate in a variety of oral language
activities, including choral speaking and reciting short poems, rhymes, songs,
and stories with repeated patterns.
d) Express ideas orally in complete
sentences.
1.11
The student will print legibly.
a) Form
letters.
Math
1.1
The student will count objects in a given set
containing between 1 and 100 objects and write the corresponding numeral.
Second Grade
History
2.12 The student will understand
that the
English
2.3
The student will use oral communication skills.
a) Use
oral language for different purposes: to inform, to persuade, and to entertain.
b) Share
stories or information orally with an audience.
Color Farm by Lois Ehlert
ISBN: 0694010669
This book is better suited for young readers learning to identify shapes,
colors, and animals.
ISBN: 1553374215
This book is better suited for grade 2, or more advanced readers. The book, “takes a year-round look at two
kinds of agriculture - cattle ranching and vegetable farming.”
Time for kids has a worksheet that compares a farmer and a veterinarian. You can access it here.
This
online
activity farm picture maker lets students create a farm scene by moving the
animals around electronically.
This WebQuest was created by Kelly Henaghan for
Last revised: December,
2008
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Classroom; All Rights Reserved