AgEd and Advocacy Lesson 3: How It’s Made – Exploring Non-Food Agricultural Products

Students use the visual representation of a web to explore the role of agriculture in their daily lives and understand how most of the necessities of life can be traced back to the farm. Agriculture is a big umbrella term that includes many concepts, ranging from farm to fork and from field to fabric. In addition to food and fiber, agriculture also provides numerous products for industrial use such as linseed oil for paint and corn for fuel. Older students working in groups using pencil and paper or marker and dry-erase board can create a concept web with the 5-Fs of agriculture.

Curricular Connections:

Next Generation Science Standards:
NGSS – MS-ESS3-3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

• advocacy
• AgEd
• agriculture
• fabric
• farming
• flowers
• forestry
• production