Old MacDonald
Had a Book
“Planting Seeds for Agricultural Literacy”
Ag Awareness Conference 2008
Mt. Vernon, IL
February 12, 2008
Presented by
Louise Stearns
Curriculum and Instruction
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Farms/Farming
All Kinds of Farms - Ann Larkin Hansen
Corn Belt Harvest – Raymond Bial
Crops on the Farm - Ann Larkin Hansen
Extra cheese, please! Mozzarella's Journey From Cow to Pizza – Cris Peterson
Fantastic Farm Machines – Cris Peterson
Farm - Ned B. Halley
Farm Eye Witness Book
Farming – Gail Gibbons
Farming the Land – J. Bushey
Farm Animals
Haircuts for the Woolseys – Tomie De Paola
Horses! - Gail Gibbons
In The Cattle Yard – Patricia M. Stockland
In the Chicken Coop – Patricia M. Stockland
In the Pig Pen – Patricia M. Stockland
Life on a Cattle Farm - Judy Wolfman
The Midnight Farm - Revee Lindbergh
The Milk Makers – Gail Gibbons
Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm - Joy Cowley
The New Baby Calf - Edith Newlin Chase
Oink – Margie Palatini
Souper Chicken – Mary Jane Auch
Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb - James Herriot
Twist and Ernest - Laura T. Barnes
Web Files – Margie Palatini
Plants/Gardening
Carlos and the Squash Plant – Jan Romero Stevens
From Seed to Plant – Gail Gibbons
Groundhog’s Garden – Lynne Cherry
Growing Vegetable Soup – Lois Ehlert
Lily's Garden – Deborah Kogan Ray
Mrs. McNosh and the Great Big Squash – Sarah Weeks
Muncha Muncha Muncha – Candace Fleming
Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House –
Judi Barrett
Tops and Bottoms – Janet Stevens
Vegetable Dreams – Dawn Jeffers /
History of Farming
Charlie Needs a Cloak – Tomi dePaola
Farm History - Ray Miller
A Farm Through Time – Angela Wilkes
Farms Long Ago - Jennifer B. Gillis
From Dawn to Dusk – Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
The Ice Horse – Candace Christiansen
The Milkman’s Boy – Donald Hall
The Ox Cart Man – Donald Hall
Pancakes, Pancakes! – Eric Carle
Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt –
Lisa Campbell Ernst
'Till Year's Good End: A calendar of medieval labor –
W. Nikola-Lisa
Yonder - Tony Johnston
Related Web Sites:
Story of harvest slide show –
http://www.agintheclassroom.org/060605/Teachers/lesson%20Ideas/Welcome%20to%20Harvest.pdf
The Great Corn Adventure –
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/corn/
Scarecrow Unit –
http://www.theteachersroom.com/scarecrowunit.htm
The Garden
http://www.theteachersroom.com/gardenunit.htm
Pigs Mini-Unit –
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/pigs.htm
Down on the Farm –
http://www.teachingheart.net/farmunit.html
The Other White Meat – http://www.pork4kids.com/
On the Farm Theme Unit - http://www.kidzone.ws/thematic/farm/index.htm
The Farm - http://www.thekcrew.net/farm.html
Crazy for Cows - http://www.kinderkorner.com/pics27.html#tractors
Crazy Cow Webpage http://www.dcrafts.com/1crazycow.htm>http://www.dcrafts.com/1crazycow.htm
Egg and Chick Theme page - http://www.teachingheart.net/eggs.htm
Recipes:
Illinois Haystacks (as found in Illinois Experience 4th Grade Student Workbook)
By CaroleMarsh, p. 42
1 - 8 ounce jar of peanut butter
1 - 12 ounce bag of butterscotch morsels
1 - 16 ounce can of chow mein noodles
Melt peanut butter together with butterscotch morsels.
Add chow mein noodles. Drop by spoonfuls on wax paper. Chill. Enjoy.
Burger Snacks
For each burger you will need:
2 vanilla wafers 1 chocolate mint cookie
red icing yellow icing green coconut.
The wafers represent the hamburger buns.
The chocolate cookie represents the hamburger.
The red icing represents the ketchup.
The yellow icing is the mustard.
The coconut represents lettuce.
Use the icing to layer the cookies to look like little burgers.
http://www.agintheclassroom.org/060605/Teachers/Make%20&%20Takes/burgersnacks.pdf
Fudge in a Bag
[source unknown]
2 small packages of instant chocolate pudding
1-pound box of powdered sugar
½ cup peanut butter
1/3 cup milk
Put ingredients in a large freezer Ziploc bag.
Pass around the room and let each student squish.
Open and eat with spoons.
This makes great ‘mud’.
Resources
Successful Farming Favorite Craft Projects – has patterns for quilts, Christmas tree ornaments, wreaths, dolls, etc.
Response Activities: /1. Serve students a slice of bread. Ask students to list on the board or chart paper, all the occupations necessary to bring the bread to them. Group the occupations. List as many foods as possible that are made from wheat. This activity can be adapted for any food/crop.
2. Read a book about gardening. Show examples of all the vegetables. Give students paper outlines of various vegetables. Ask them to group the vegetables as follows:
roots flowers stems seeds
Use the real vegetables to make vegetable soup in a crock pot in your classroom.
3. Play tic-tac-toe using farm facts. Read several non-fiction books about farming. List facts from each on board. Gail Gibbons’ books are great for this, as they often have a list of facts on the last page. Turn the facts into questions. Pick 9 questions and answers. List the answers on a plastic tablecloth in a tic-tac-toe pattern.
botanists / annuals / perennials / 1. Scientists who study plants.2. Plants that live for only one season.
3. Plants that grow back for many seasons.
4. When a grain of pollen lands on the stigma.
5. Contains the beginning of a plant.
6. Plant that needs very little water.
7. When a seed breaks open and a plant begins to grow.
8. When leaves make food for the plant from the water and minerals in the soil.
9. The long narrow outer case holding the seeds of a plant.
pollination / seed / cactus
germination / photosynthesis / pod
Teacher reads the question/clue and the students cover the correct answers. You can use objects related to the theme of the game – for example instead of “X” and “O” you could use flower shapes and seed shapes. First group or team to get three in a row wins.