7.2 Production Agriculture and the Environment
This middle school lesson, “Production Agriculture and the Environment” (Lesson MS.IAS.7.2) from the Pork Checkoff Middle School Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum, examines how production agriculture practices affect the environment in both positive and negative ways. Students learn to define production agriculture and environmental stewardship and explore how agricultural producers act as stewards of the environment through best management practices. The lesson includes an interest approach, gallery-walk activity, content discussion, review, and a true/false and multiple-choice assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Explore practices, procedures, and methods of environmental stewardship.
- Examine the role of production agriculture practices on the environment.
- Compare and contrast agriculture vs. environmental stewardship.
- Time required
- Two 45-minute periods
- Grade level
- Middle School
- Materials
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- Writing surface
- Transparencies and projector
- MS.IAS.7.2.TM.A – one per teacher
- MS.IAS.7.2.TM.B – one per teacher
- MS.IAS.7.2.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Markers
- Lesson Number
- MS.IAS.7.2
- Precepts
- C. Vision; C1. Contemplate the future
- Key Terms
- Production agriculture; Environmental stewardship
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.01.03.01.bUtilize visioning skills to develop a plan.
- CS.01.05.02.b.Demonstrate responsible citizenship.
- NL-ENG.K-12.3Evaluation Strategies — Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- NRS.05.01.01.a.Identify ways in which a message regarding natural resources may be communicated to the public.
- NSS-C.5-8.5Roles of the Citizen