Wheat
Week
FREE
Conservation
Education Lessons
For
Grades 4 – 7
What
is Wheat Week?
Wheat
Week is a series of five
lessons, delivered over the
course
of one week, educating students about water, soil, wheat, salmon,
dams and
energy
and how they impact our daily lives.
Who
can receive Wheat Week?
Any
school can request Wheat
Week. Teachers
are
asked to plan together so each day 4 classrooms (grades 4 – 7)
can receive the daily,
one-hour
lesson.
Wheat
Week Lessons:
Water
in our World:
Explore
the water cycle, including precipitation, evaporation
and
condensation, through classroom participation and a rain shower at
the end!
Students
create their own wheat terrarium to see the water cycle at work.
Amazing
Soils:
Differentiate
between the three soil types (sand, silt and clay) based
on
particle size and permeability through a hands-on experiment.
Discover how soil is
made.
Discuss the properties of soil and their importance to farmers and
community
members.
Wheatshed/Watershed:
Discover what a
watershed is and how we affect the
watersheds
we live in. Students create individual paper watersheds and learn
about the
impacts
of erosion, weathering and deposition of soil
.
Students compare their
watershed
to their local wheatshed
.
Wheat
Here, Wheat There:
Discover
the various forms of energy required to move
wheat
from the field to the dinner table. Students learn about the role
dams play in
transportation
and salmon migration as they make a model of a hydroelectric dam.
Wheat
We Eat:
Explore the
wheat plant as a system of parts. Discuss implication of
inputs
and outputs to the system and how that affects the plant. Students
examine a
wheat
seed under magnification and explore products made from wheat.
This lesson
ends
the week with a tasty snack from wheat products.
All
Wheat Week lessons are aligned with Washington State Essential
Academic Learning
Requirements
and Grade Level Expectation in Science. Each lesson takes
approximately 1
hour
and all supplies are provided.
For
more information or to schedule Wheat Week for your classroom
please contact:
Brad
Bowers
Foster
Creek Conservation District
Bbowers.wheatweek@gmail.com
(509)886-8775
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