Roads, Rivers, and Rails Agtivity Booklet
In this 12-page student workbook designed for lower elementary students, explore the ways transportation is vital to agriculture through a variety of cross-curricular ag-tivities!
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Road Trip BINGO
Spot the connections between transportation and agriculture on your next road trip!
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Roads, Rivers, and Rails Board Game
Create and play a unique board game that tests your transportation knowledge.
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Transportation Puzzles
Test students' coding and navigation skills to learn more about the supply chain.
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Back to School With Ag
Help students better understand connections between school supplies and agriculture with this map activity. Content Areas: Social Studies, Literacy, ELA
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Circuit Bugs
Engineer a closed circuit to learn about the flow of electrical currents - then decorate it like your favorite bug! Content Area: Science
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Corn Soy Hogs Cattle Pumpkin
Get ready for some hand-slapping mayhem with this Illinois Agriculture version of a popular card game! Content Area: Science
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Design a Bridge
Challenge your students to use their STEM skills and design a bridge that is at least 6 inches long and can bear weight. Content Areas: Math, Science
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Dollar Distribution
Learn where each penny of the dollar you spend goes when you shop at the supermarket vs. the farmers market! Content Area: Math
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Futures Farming
Students will use M&M's to help them understand how commodities are bought and sold. Content Areas: Math, ELA, Literacy
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Illinois Transportation
Teach students about the diverse and highly efficient transportation system in IL. Content Area: Social Studies
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Indoor BINGO
This fun at-home activity expands students' knowledge of co-products and by-products in agriculture.
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Navigating IL Waterways
Students will learn more about one of our state's most important transportation systems -- our waterways. Content Area: Social Studies
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Pizza Process
Create your own paper spinner to learn and remember the agricultural sources of your favorite pizza ingredients! Content Area: Science
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Tin Foil Flatboat
Students will love this STEM activity with connections to Lincoln and IL History. Content Areas: STEM, Math, Science
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American Agriculture's Share of the World Production
While learning about US agricultural import and exports, students will use data from charts to perform math calculations with fractions and decimals Content Areas: Math, ELA, Literacy
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Corn & Soybean Processing and Products
Students will explore the wealth of products derived from these two humble seeds, study the steps involved in their processing, and conduct experiments to learn why they are so versatile. Content Areas: Science, ELA, Literacy
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Home Grown in Illinois
In this lesson, students will review commodity cards to learn about the top farm commodities from this state. Content Areas: Social Studies, Literacy, ELA
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Illinois Agriculture by the Numbers
Students will learn about a variety of information regarding Illinois agriculture through charts and graphs. Content Areas: Math, ELA, Literacy
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