Prairie Basics

This lesson conveys highlights of Illinois' prairie history and reinforces computation skills as students solve a word puzzle about our state prairie grass.

Content Areas: Literacy, ELA, Math

Prairie Basics

The Multidisciplinary AGricultural Integrated Curriculum (mAGic) was created in 2004 under the leadership of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Facilitating Coordination in Agricultural Education Project (FCAE). Funding was provided through the FCAE grant budget from the agricultural education line item of the ISBE budget. All of the mAGic lessons can be found at http://www.ilaged.org/AITC.

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