APHG UNIT 5: AGRICULTURE
Unit Overview
APHG UNIT 5: AGRICULTURE
This section of the course explores four themes: the origin and diffusion of agriculture; the characteristics and processes of the world’s agricultural production systems and land use; the impact of agricultural change on quality of life and the environment; and issues in contemporary agriculture. Students examine centers where domestication originated and study the processes by which domesticated crops and animals spread. This diffusion process makes clear why distinct regional patterns emerge in terms of diet, energy use, and the adaptation of biotechnology. The course also covers the major agricultural production regions of the world, extensive activity (fishing, forestry, nomadic herding, ranching, shifting cultivation) and intensive activity (plantation agriculture, mixed crop/livestock systems, market
gardening, horticulture, large-scale commercial agriculture) are examined, as are settlement patterns and landscapes typical of each major agriculture type. Students learn about land survey systems, environmental conditions, sustainability, global food supply problems, and the cultural values that shape agricultural patterns. In addition
this section presents the roles of women in agricultural production, particularly in subsistence farming and market economies in the developing world. Explanations for patterns of rural land use and associated settlements (e.g., von
Thünen’s land use model) are major concerns. Also important are the impacts of large-scale agribusiness on food production and consumption. The effects of economic and cultural globalization on agriculture and the need to increase food supplies and production capacity conclude this section.
Key Concepts/Standards
· Development and diffusion of agriculture
o Agricultural Revolutions
· Major agricultural production regions
· Von Thunen’s Agricultural Model
· Rural land use and settlement patterns
· Organic farming
· Global food distribution
· Genetically Modified Foods
Essential Questions
o What is agriculture and where did it begin?
o What does the von Thunen Model show us? Is it applicable to modern-day agriculture
o How did agriculture change with industrialization?
o What are the current trends in dairy farming?
o What impact does agriculture have on the cultural landscape?
o What are the current trends in organic farming?
o What does the global pattern of agriculture look like?
Formative Assessments
1) von Thunen Land Use Model development and application
2) Daily review of terms
Summative Assessments
1) Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz
2) Unit 5 Test
3) von Thunen Land Use Model FRQ
4) AG/Grocery Store Field Study
Unit 5 Vocabulary
Free Range
Agrarian
Agribusiness
Agricultural industrialization
Agricultural landscape
Agriculture
Animal domestication
Aquaculture
Bio-revolution
Biotechnology
Certified Organic
Certified Naturally Grown
Collective farm
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Commercial Agriculture/farming
Composting
Core/Periphery
Cover cropping
Creative destruction
Crop rotation
Cultivation regions
Dairy farming
Desertification
Double cropping
Economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary)
Environmental modification
Extensive subsistence agriculture
Fair Trade
Farm crisis
Farmer’s Market
Farming
Feedlot
Feedlots
First Agricultural Revolution
First agricultural revolution
Fishing
Food chain
Forestry
Forestry
Genetically Engineered (GE)
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Grain combines
Grain farming
Green Revolution
Intensive subsistence agriculture
IFOAM
Integrated pest management
Intertillage
Johann Heinrich von Thunen
Livestock farming
Livestock ranching
Locavore
Long lot survey pattern
Market gardening activities
Mechanization
Mediterranean agriculture
Metes and bounds survey pattern
Mining
Mixed livestock with crop production
Organic Farming
Organic matter
Pastoral nomadism
Persistent Toxic Chemicals
Pesticide
Planned economy
Plant domestication
Plantation agriculture
Renewable/nonrenewable
Rice sawahs
Rural settlement
Second Agricultural Revolution
Seed agriculture
Shifting cultivation
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Specialized fruit production
Staple grains
Subsidies
Subsistence farmers
Suitcase farms
Sustainable yield
Third Agricultural Revolution
Township and range survey pattern
“Tragedy of the Commons”
Transhumance
Truck farms
USDA
Vegetative planting
Weekly AgendaMonday, April 11 / Tuesday, April 12 / Wednesday, April 13 / Thursday, April 14 / Friday, April 15
Activities:
1) Unit 5 Plan
2) PPT: Introduction to AG
3) Introduction to AG/Grocery Store Field Study Project
4) Video: Grocery Store Wars / Activities:
1) Video: Food Inc.
2) Video Analysis / Activities:
1) Discuss The Green Revo and the Worst Mistake in History
2) von Thunen Model Discussion
3) STATE Fates- Round 5
4) Research AG products / Activities:
1) von Thunen Model Application/Collaborative Assignment (FRQ)
2) Truck Farming Connection to von Thunen
*You must be in attendance for FRQ / Activities:
1) von Thunen Model Application/Collaborative Assignment (FRQ)
2) Truck Farming Connection to von Thunen
*You must be in attendance for FRQ
Homework:
1) Article Critique: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race-BLOG
2) Article Review: The Father of the Green Revolution
3) Unit 5 Vocabulary
4) AG/Grocery Store Field Study / Homework:
1) Unit 5 Vocabulary
2) Article: Math Lessons for Locavores / Homework:
1) Unit 5 Vocabulary
2) Article: Math Lessons for Locavores / Homework:
1) Work on Truck Farming
2) Grocery Store/AG Field Study / Homework:
1) Finish Truck Farming
2) Grocery Store/AG Field Study
3) Article Review: Modern Day Dairy Farming
4) PPT/Lecture: How did AG change with Industrialization? (print outline from Blog)
Differentiation:
Support-review
Extension-review / Differentiation:
Support-review
Extension-review / Differentiation:
Support-review
Extension-review / Differentiation:
Process/Application/Role-
Discrepancy in AG products will be dependent upon their group’s success thus far in STATE game. It will also be dependent upon relative location and climate. / Differentiation:
Process/Application/Product-
Discrepancy in AG products will be dependent upon their group’s success thus far in STATE game. It will also be dependent upon relative location and climate. Finished von Thunen
Assessment:
Formative review / Assessment:
Formative Review / Assessment:
Formative Review / Assessment:
Summative Assessment-Group FRQ / Assessment:
Summative Assessment-Group FRQ
Monday, April 18 / Tuesday, April 19 / Wednesday, April 20 / Thursday, April 21 / Friday, April 22
Activities:
1) Go over PPT: How did AG change with Industrialization
2) Video: Dairy Cow Midwife
3) Trends in Dairy Farming / Activities:
1) Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz
2) Trends in Organic Farming and Sustainable AG
3) Organic Food: Facts and Figures
4) Why Organic? Is it really better?-Video Birke Baehr
5) Video: The Meatrix / Activities:
1) PPT: Commodities and Vertical Integration
2) Lab-GMO Analysis: The Debate over GMOs / Activities:
1) Turn in AG/Grocery Store Field Study
2) Discuss Fish Farming
3) Thanksgiving in April, APHG Style! / Activities:
1) Unit 5 Test-MCQs ONLY
Homework:
1) Article: Organic Farming in India
2) Article: The Organic Life
3) AG/Grocery Store Field Study
4) Unit 5 Vocabulary / Homework:
1) Article: Drinking Fair Trade Coffee
2) Article: Starbucks Farmers who have Never Heard of Starbucks
3) AG/Grocery Store Field Study / Homework:
1) Complete GMO Analysis
2) Article Review: The Future of Fish Farming-BLOG
3) Article: Europe Breeding Tuna
4) AG/Grocery Store Field Study / Homework:
1) Unit 5 Test Preparation / Homework:
1) Unit 6 Vocabulary
Differentiation:
Support-review
Extension-review / Differentiation:
Response-discuss application of organic knowledge / Differentiation:
Content/Product-Lab Assignment / Differentiation:
Content-Student Choice of AG product research and presentation / Differentiation:
Assessment:
Formative review / Assessment:
Summative-Vocabulary Quiz / Assessment:
Formative review / Assessment:
Summative-AG/Grocery Store Field Study / Assessment:
Summative-Unit 5 Test