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2024-2025 Monthly Curriculum Themes
September
All About Agriculture
- Virtual Field Trip
- My Farm Web: K-2, 3-5
- A Search for the Source: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
- My Agricultural Connections: 6-8, 9-12
- AgMag K: Agriculture in Your Home and School
- AgMag 1: Grown in Minnesota
- AgMag 2: Agriculture: Every Day, Every Way
- AgMag 3: Growing Regions of Minnesota
- AgMag 4: What is Agriculture?
- AgMag 5: What is Agriculture?
- AgMag 6: Minnesota Agriculture
October
Farmers Markets
- Afterschool PD with MAITC: Farmers Market
- Virtual Field Trip
- K-2 Lesson Off to the Market
- 3-5 Lesson Food Miles
- 6-8 Lesson Culinary Concepts
- 9-12 Lesson Food: Going the Distance
- AgMag 3: Where Can You Find Specialty Crops?
November
Poultry
- Virtual Field Trip: Kvistad Turkey Farm
- K-2 Lesson: Farm Animal Life Cycles
- 3-5 Lesson: A Rafter of Turkeys
- 6-8 Lesson: The Geography of Thanksgiving Dinner
- 9-12 Lesson: Photoperiod Phenomena
- AgMag 3: Tracking a Turkey
- AgMag 3: Egg-cellent
December
Food and Culture
- After school PD with MAITC
- Virtual Field Trip
- K-2 Lesson: Cultures, Food, and Communities Around the World
- 3-5 Lesson: Right This Very Minute
- 6-8 Lesson: Hunger and Malnutrition
- 9-12 Lesson: Sustainable Somali Sambusas
- AgMag 6: Sharing Culture Through Food
January
Agriculture Innovation
- Virtual Field Trip
- K-2 Lesson It's a MOO-stery
- 3-5 Lesson: Robots in High-Tech Farming
- 6-8 Lesson: Drones in High-Tech Farming
- 9-12 Lesson: Journey 2050 Lesson 7: Technology and Innovations
- AgMag 3: Agricultural Inventions
February
I Love to Read
- Farm and Food Book Reading Events
- K-2 Lesson: John Deere, That's Who!
- 3-5 Lesson: Growing Plants in Science and Literature, More Than an Empty Pot
- 6-8 Lesson: Think in Pictures: Like Dr. Grandin
- 9-12 Lesson: From Boom to Dust
- Farm and Food Book Month
March
School Gardens
- After School PD with MAITC: MN School Gardens
- Virtual Field Trip
- K-2 Lesson The Seed Match
- 3-5 Lesson Luscious Leaves
- 6-8 Lesson: Plant Propagation
- 9-12 Lesson: Fruit and Vegetables: The Right Pick
April
Soil and Water
May
Pollinators
- Virtual Field Trip
- K-2 Lesson: The Amazing Honeybee
- 3-5 Lesson: Honey Bees: A Pollination Simulation
- 6-8 Lesson:Flower Power
- 9-12 Lesson: Preservation Power of Honey
- AgMag 5: Grow Your Future in Agriculture