2.3 Don’t Touch That Dial – Agriculture’s Economic Impact
A middle school agricultural literacy lesson in which students explore agriculture’s economic impact at the world, national, state, county, and home levels. Students estimate their annual food spending, play a “Cash Cab”-style review game using dry erase boards, and work in groups to research and present a mock newscast on agriculture’s economic impact. The lesson also ties in a character/integrity precept about living honestly.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- As a result of this unit the student will… Evaluate how agriculture supports all life.
- As a result of this lesson, the student will … Determine the agricultural economic impact in a local and global setting.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 45 minutes.
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- 5 Dry Erase Boards
- 5 Dry Erase Markers (any color)
- MS.IAS.2.3.AS.1 – one per teacher (cut out cards before lesson)
- MS.IAS.2.3.TM.A – one per teacher
- MS.IAS.2.3.Assess.A – one per student
- Computers with access to American Farm Bureau's website or hard copies of their Food and Farm Facts book which must be purchased ahead of time
- Lesson Number
- MS.IAS.2.3
- Precepts
- D. Character; D1. Live with integrity.
- Resources
- Food and Farm Facts. American Farm Bureau Federation. http://www.fb.org/
- Key Terms
- Export, Import
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NL-ENG.K-12.4Communication Skills
- NM-MEA.6-8.1Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
- NM-NUM.6-8.1Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems
- NM-NUM.6-8.3Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates
- NS.5-8.6Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
- NSS-EC.5-8.6Gain from Trade
- NT.K-12.5Technology Research Tools.
Social Science / Economics
- NSS-EC.5-8.1Productive resources are limited. Therefore, people cannot have all the goods and services they want. As a result, they must choose some things and give up others.