Lenses
Economic: What are the costs of current traditional farming vs. alternative farming systems? What are the costs associated with the growing of food and the transportation of food to stores?
Environmental: What impact does traditional farming have on the environment? What impact do alternative farming systems have on the environment?
Historical: How has traditional farming changed over time due to the introduction of technology?
Society: How can alternative farming practices battle the food deserts present in many urban areas?
Content Standards
Science
5-PS3.1 Energy: Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
Math
Economic: What are the costs of current traditional farming vs. alternative farming systems? What are the costs associated with the growing of food and the transportation of food to stores?
Environmental: What impact does traditional farming have on the environment? What impact do alternative farming systems have on the environment?
Historical: How has traditional farming changed over time due to the introduction of technology?
Society: How can alternative farming practices battle the food deserts present in many urban areas?
Content Standards
Science
5-PS3.1 Energy: Use models to describe that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
- PS3.D: Energy in chemical processes and everyday life
- LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms
- Crosscutting Concepts: Energy can be transferred in various ways and between organisms
- Support the argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water (not from soil)
- LS1.C: Organization for matter and energy flow in organisms; plants acquire their material for growth mainly from air and water
- Crosscutting Concepts: Matter is transported into, out of, and within systems
- LS2.A: Interdependent relationships in ecosystems
- LS2.B: Cycles of matter and energy transfer in ecosystems
- Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and system models; a system can be described in terms of its components and interactions
- ESS3.C: Human impacts on Earth systems
- Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and system models
- 3-5-ETS.1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time or cost
- ETS1.A: Defining and delimiting engineering problems
- ETS1.B: Developing possible solutions
- ETS1.C: Optimizing the design solution
- 3-5-ETS.2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
- 3-5-ETS.3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved
- Crosscutting Concepts: Influence of engineering, technology, and science on society and the natural world
- RI.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text
- RI.5.7: Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently
- RI.5.9: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably
- W.5.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly
- W.5.7: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic
- W.5.8: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources
- W.5.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
- SL. 5.1A: Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion
- SL. 5.4: Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace
- SL.5.5: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes
Math
- MP.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- MP.4: Model with mathematics
- MP.5: Use appropriate tools strategically
- 3-5.OA: Operations and algebraic thinking
- 4&5.MD.A.1: Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system and use these conversions in solving multi-step, real world problems
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