Activity centers, suggestions for growing projects, science inquiry activities, crafts, and more are included. Literature connections and resource lists included. Understand their role in feeding the world and how they have shaped civilizations since the beginning of man s existence. Students will learn about great grasslands around the world and the significance of our own special grasslands, the prairies. Learn how to identify a grass from your school ground and discover its success story.
Activity centers explore the major food grasses with science and math activities and craft projects.
Literature connections and resource lists included. Strong math emphasis with literature connections and resource lists included. Absorb the history of Texas through a different perspective - the plants that grew on the prairies. Students will learn about prairie grasses, explore the use of native plants by pioneers and early inhabitants, and meet pioneer botanists who had a significant impact on our state. Literature connections and resource lists included.