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    This document provides the objectives, materials, and procedure for a lesson on food and farming cycles. The lesson aims to: 1) introduce students to microbes in soil and gut; 2) have students mindfully taste local vegetables; and 3) evaluate composting as a soil-building practice. Students will learn about microbes through slides and discussion, compare local and non-local fruits in a tasting, and sort agricultural practices as either soil-building or soil-depleting through an activity using example cards. The goal is to educate students on the connections between healthy soil, sustainable farming practices, and human nutrition.

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    This document provides the objectives, materials, and procedure for a lesson on food and farming cycles. The lesson aims to: 1) introduce students to microbes in soil and gut; 2) have students mindfully taste local vegetables; and 3) evaluate composting as a soil-building practice. Students will learn about microbes through slides and discussion, compare local and non-local fruits in a tasting, and sort agricultural practices as either soil-building or soil-depleting through an activity using example cards. The goal is to educate students on the connections between healthy soil, sustainable farming practices, and human nutrition.

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    Food and Farming Cycles

    Objectives Duration: 30-45 minutes


     Meet the microbes in our gut
     Taste fresh vegetables mindfully Group Size: 10-30
     Evaluate claims that compost is a valuable
    Setting: Outdoor, if possible, at a farm
    practices that nurtures the soil and reduces the
    amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Key Terms: humus, organic matter, upcycling
     Sort agricultural practices as either soil-building
    or soil-depleting and explain reasons. Ohio State Standards: NGSS alignment
    LS4.D Biodiversity and Humans
    Change in biodiversity can influence humans
    Method resources, such as food, energy, and medicines, as
    Discuss importance of microbes in soil and human well as ecosystem services that humans rely on—for
    health. Engage in a Mindful Tasting Activity to test example, water purification and recycling.
    some fresh/local and non-local strawberries to taste the
    difference and discuss nutrients in food and the role of Accomodations: Consider doing the exercises in a
    microbes. Introduce the practice of composting and how classroom if you are limited in ability to get to a farm
    or garden.
    it benefits soil and other agricultural practices used in
    farming and food production. Students will use
    investigative skills to categorize practices into soil-
    building or soil-depleting practices. Engage in a compost Background
    planting exercise to take home a plant to grow in a This lesson is module that is part of a five-part unit
    garden. about the carbon cycle from Kiss the Ground. In this
    unit, the students can learn about the following:
    1. Earth’s systems – what carbon is found on
    Materials
    earth?
    Computer
    2. Photosynthesis – what role do plants play in the
    Projector
    carbon cycle?
    Slides 4.1-4.6 from Kiss the Ground’s Soil Story
    3. Healthy soil – what role do microbes play in the
    Handouts: Why compost?, Agricultural Practice Cards,
    carbon cycle?
    Soil Story Assessment
    4. Food and Farming – what role do farmers play
    Curriculum
    in the carbon cycle?
    Paper
    5. Taking action -what role do you play in the
    Local fruits or vegetables (in-season preferred) that can
    carbon cycle?
    be enjoyed raw, or are unique – for this lesson, we will
    use strawberries and yogurt.
    The Compost Story video on YouTube:
    Procedure
    Explain that just like soil, our body has microbes that
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqDQD8cvO5
    help break down food to keep us healthy. Share the
    Y
    slides about the number of microbes (4.1-4.3) in our gut.
    Soil sample and compost sample
    Grade Level: 6-8 4.1 Ask: where might microbes occur in the body?

    Subject Areas: Science, Environmental Education

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    •Agraria Educator’s Workshop June 2019•
    Lesson Title p.2
    4.2 Show the second slide that indicates microbial count
    increases as you move down the digestive tract. Ask: Ask: How do farmers grow nutritious food for us to eat?
    what do the circles represent? If answers don’t come up, remind them of microbes.

    4.3 Looking at the third slide, we can see the circles Show The Compost Story video (7 minutes). Compost is
    represent how many microbes are in each portion of our an essential microbial source, regenerating the land
    digestive tract. below us.

    Highlight the following: Our stomachs and other parts Set up for Agricultural Practice Cards Activity. Look
    of our bodies are, in fact, small habitats for billions of at samples of compost and soil. Have the group list out
    microbes. In fact, when taken all together these microbes observations for both in small groups. What do you see?
    weigh about 3 pounds, which is about the same weight Sometimes you can look at soils and farms to learn about
    as our brains! whether the practices used to grow food are soil-building
    or soil-depleting.
    Ask: How might these microbes be different from the
    microbes in the soil? How might they be similar? Show slides 4.4-4.6, Are We Building or Depleting
    Soils? Explain that farmers use different types of
    These microbes are different, but similarly they promote practices. Some practices build up soil, encourage
    human health in the same way that soil microbes microbial activity and grow nutrient dense food. Others
    promote soil health. Ask: Have you ever been told to eat tend to deplete the soil causing erosion, desertification,
    yogurt after taking antibiotics? That’s because certain run off, or other depleting outcomes.
    foods contain probiotics, which are good bacteria for
    your gut and can help replace the killed bacteria used You be the Investigator Activity. Handout cards (4
    from antibiotics. sheets with 14 different practices demonstrated). Use
    your understanding of soil, farming and carbon to
    Set up purpose for Mindful Tasting Activity: Feeding determine if the practice builds or degrades soil.
    ourselves and our microbes fresh nutritious food is a Students can work in groups of 3-4 to categorize these
    good way to stay healthy. Reminder: some microbes two.
    make us healthy and some make us sick. They may be
    living in the soil, which is why it is important to always Be sure to emphasize that farmers are not trying to harm
    wash your vegetables and fruit before eating! Encourage the earth, but that recent science has indicated the
    students to wash hands before eating, but do not use importance of soil health and soil-building practices.
    hand sanitizers (this can kill good bacteria!). Farmers at Agraria are organic farmers, which means
    they use soil-building practices and are verified by a
    Mindful Tasting Activity: Share where the produce is third-party agency that comes out once a year to inspect
    from and anything known about how it was grown and the farm. Some farms may not want to do this right away
    by whom. Use your senses to explore the fruit you are because of the cost, however, as people become more
    eating and compare the differences between the local aware of where their food comes from and policies
    and non-local fruits. Use descriptive language – smell? change, it will become more cost effective and
    Taste? Sound? Feel? After everyone has tasted the fruit mainstream for farmers to transition to organic.
    ask which they preferred and why. Ask: Can you taste
    the nutrients? While you may not be able to, flavor may It is important to know that composting isn’t just for
    be an indication of freshness and fresh food is often farmers, though. Anyone can do it!
    more nutritious.

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    •Agraria Educators’ Workshop June 2019•
    Lesson Title p.3
    Compost plant activity – Take home your own compost
    with a plant in it and try growing your own food. Use the The Compost Story video on YouTube:
    compost media provided, pots, and plant starts to pot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqDQD8cvO5
    your own vegetable plant. Y

    Alternative Options:
    Activity: See Make A Compost Cake Activity – this can
    also be demonstrated in a classroom with a bucket if you
    do not have access to a farm/garden.

    Speaker: Bring in a farmer or visit a farm and have the


    farmer speak about how they grow their food and build
    their soil.

    Extension/Agraria Connection
    Bring the students to Agraria to observe different
    agricultural practices during the growing season. You
    may also consider having one of the Agraria farmers
    lead a farm tour and students can bring along a checklist
    and look for different types of soil-building practices to
    observe on the farm tour.

    Evaluation
    Students do a field assessment of a farm in small groups
    to gather data and photos on agricultural practices and do
    a presentation back to the group their findings using
    visual images collected and other information gathered.

    Students create a farm model that represents a farm


    using soil-building practices. Use crafts and other found
    objects in nature to convey the farm practices. This may
    be a good way to incorporate art and kinesthetic
    learning.

    Students write a story about their experience on a farm


    (post-field trip). Students write a persuasive speech or
    article about the importance of composting.

    Resources
    Kiss the Ground’s Soil Story Curriculum:
    https://kisstheground.com/wp-
    content/uploads/2018/07/Soil-Story-
    Curriculum_180729.pdf
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