2.17 Agriculture All Around
This is Lesson 17, “Agriculture All Around,” from the National FFA Mentoring Program’s Grow Your PALS Program Guide (Agricultural Awareness unit). In this one-on-one mentor/mentee lesson, students explore everyday personal items in their bedroom and learn how those items—and the by-products of crops like cotton, soybeans, wheat, and rice—come from agriculture, demonstrating that agriculture is all around us.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify personal items that come from agriculture.
- Time required
- 15 minutes
- Materials
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- writing surface
- writing utensil
- PALS.17.AS.A – 1 per student
- PALS.17.AS.B – 1 per student
- PALS.17.Assess.A – 1 per student
- toy microphone – (optional)
- Lesson Type
- One-on-one
- Unit
- Agricultural Awareness
- Precepts
- B. Relationships — B2. Interact and work with others
- Key Terms
- by-product
- Resources
- Agriculture—In touch with you Daily (txfb.org); National FFA Organization, Food for America Educational Materials, 2006; National FFA Organization, Essential Learnings, 2003
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.6Applying Knowledge — Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions, media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.