Activities
(Sample ideas relate to a unit about diary farming)
Identify sources of charts about dairy farming in printed or electronic sources.
Display and read charts with information about dairy farming.
Make flow charts of activities or processes related to dairy farming.
Make "T" charts on which to list and make comparisons.
Make charts showing circular or repetetive patterns related to dairy farming.
Chart growing seasons of various plants found on a dairy farm.
Chart weather affecting farmers. Compare attitudes of farmers to people in other occupations as they relate to the weather.
Compare dairy farms with other types of farms
List jobs of farm family members
Find, read, or create charts showing classification systems
Read and make Venn diagrams to show relationships between and among items related to dairy farming.
List ways children can help
Make a web showing interdependence
Make charts showing dairy products
Make charts showing interdependence
Match parent and baby animals
Photograph various types of farms
Transparencies
Webs of interdependence