New Jersey Curriculum Resources (K-6)

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GradesK, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Science, Social Studies

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What it is

This webpage includes several resources to teach elementary students about New Jersey's agriculture, including a fact sheet, a video introducing students to three New Jersey Farms, two websites from the Department of Agriculture for education, and an E-book detailing the popular crops grown in New Jersey.
Students will see farms in Sussex, Tabernacle, and Pedrickstown, learn about sweet corn from Salem, Burlington, and Gloucester counties, and become familiar with various New Jersey-grown foods.
The K-6 resources are in the upper right of the page.

Teaching tips

Positives

Students will love hearing from young farmers they can relate to in the video.
The resources are easy to navigate and understand.

Additional Prerequisites

The e-book and the New Jersey State Ag Facts are primarily for older elementary students to read on their own; you should read them aloud for younger students.
It may help students to understand how plants grow and what they need to survive.

Differentiation

Teachers can make community connections by organizing a field trip to a local farm.
Students can taste-test locally grown foods such as blueberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, peaches, cranberries, and sweet corn.
During writing, students can practice persuasive skills by writing advertisements for locally-grown fruits and vegetables.
Students can read the book in groups, with each reading about a different locally-grown crop and sharing their learning with the class.
Teachers can use the section about bees in the e-book to introduce the role of bees as pollinators and the impacts they face due to climate change.
After watching the video about the three farms and the ways they have innovated, teachers can discuss ways farmers are innovating to protect the environment and mitigate climate change impacts.

From the scientist review

This webpage contains a collection of resources related to agriculture and farming in New Jersey. Many of these resources relate to climate change, whether it is explicitly mentioned or not. Teachers can find specific climate change and agriculture lessons using the search function. This resource is recommended for teaching.

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At a glance

Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Subjects: Science, Social Studies
Other types: Videos, Ebooks
Format: PDF, YouTube Video
Language: English
Location: North America, North America > United States, North America > United States > New Jersey
Provider: NJ Agriculture in the Classroom
Authors: NJ Agriculture in the Classroom
Published: May 23, 2024
Last updated: July 16, 2026
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Standards alignment · D2.Geo.4.K-2 + 12 more

Core

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards

D2.Geo.4.K-2Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.
D2.Geo.9.K-2Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.
D2.Geo.2.3-5Use maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Common Core English Language Arts Standards (CCSS.ELA)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.3Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

4-ESS3-2.Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.
K-2-ETS1-1.Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
K-LS1-1.Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
1-LS1-2.Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
4-LS1-1.Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
1-LS1-A.All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water and air. Plants also have different parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) that help them survive and grow. (1-LS1-1)

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