Progressive Potato Relay
This Food for America demonstration plan, “Progressive Potato Relay,” is a hands-on outdoor relay activity for the History and Social Development unit. Through three timed rounds in which students gain new “tools” (lunch bags, then buckets) to move potatoes faster, students experience how agriculture has become more time- and labor-efficient over history and learn that agriculture is the foundation of every civilization.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Students will be able to explain that agriculture has changed throughout history by becoming more time and labor efficient.
- Students will be able to explain that agriculture is the foundation of every great civilization.
- Time required
- 20-30 minutes
- Materials
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- 4 bags of potatoes
- Paper lunch bags
- 8 buckets
- Stopwatch
- Unit
- History and Social Development
- Demonstration
- Progressive Potato Relay (20-30 minutes)