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Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom

April, 2009

"Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 2007 floriculture was number 11 in value among all Oklahoma agricultural commodities.

Now is the time of year when Oklahoma's floriculture industry comes to life. Temporary greenhouses spring up in the parking lots of large retail stores and bedding plants spill out onto the sidewalks of smaller garden centers.

Floriculture Activities

Send students on a scavenger hunt in the garden section of a large retail store or a local garden center.

  • Provide a list of common garden plants grown in Oklahoma for students to find. Bring examples for students to see. The most common bedding plants grown in Oklahoma are begonias, petunias, geraniums and impatiens.
  • Provide a floor plan of a local garden center with labels of plants or flowers. Students give directions from the entrance to find the Oklahoma plants.
  • Discuss the difference between goods (plants for sale) and services (gardeners, landscape designers, etc.) in the floriculture industry.
  • Students look for plants of certain color, with certain leaf shapes, annuals or perennials (Discuss the difference.), etc.
  • Students graph results of their hunt.

Oklahoma Redbuds are in Bloom. Help students create their own redbud trees with Oklahoma red dirt and tissue paper:

  1. Mix water and garden soil in a bucket to make mud.
  2. Each student will dip his/her hand and wrist into the mud.
  3. Each student will carefully place his/her hand on the light blue construction paper, spreading fingers to create prints of branches. The wrist print will serve as the tree trunk.
  4. Allow the wrist to dry.
  5. Students will create blossoms (1 to 1 1/2-inch squares) of pink and lavender tissue paper.
  6. Students will twist the tissue paper squares around a pencil eraser and use the pencil to gently press the squares onto dots of glue placed on the blue construction paper near the "branches." The tissue should come off the eraser easily.
  7. Repeat until the tree is full of blossoms. It should look similar to an Oklahoma redbud as it blooms.
  8. If there are missing sections of the "tree" or if students want more detail, they can add lines with a brown marker.

P.A.S.S. for these activities

More about Floriculture

Oklahoma State FFA Floriculture Plant Index

Poems About Flowers (from the Academy of American Poets

Online OAITC lessons related to floriculture

 

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

by William Wordsworth, 1804

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

April is National Gardening Month

Gardening is great exercise! Go outside and plant something!

Challenge students to start some kind of edible plant this month that will be ready to eat by the end of the school year. Lettuce and radish are good possibilities. The Oklahoma Garden Planning Guide, from OSU Cooperative Extension Service, provides a chart with number of days, from planting to harvest.

  • Students use the Oklahoma Garden Planning Guide chart to plan what they will plant. (OSU fact sheet. Scroll down for the planning guide.)
  • Students follow the Scientific Study Format to plan and conduct experiments with their plants.
  • Students keep journals showing the progress of their plants.

Sneaker Salad

(from the Junior Master Gardener curriculum)

  • Each student brings one old sneaker to class.
  • Fill the sneakers with potting mix, and plant lettuce, radishes or a mesclun mix (mixed lettuce and greens for salad).
  • Keep the sneakers watered, and have a salad lunch at the end ofthe school year.

Teachers on the OAITC gardening tour turn a compost pile at a school in Enid.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
- Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America, 1977

Start a compost pile

  • Students follow the Scientific Study Format to plan and conduct experiments with their compost pile.
  • Students keep track of what they add to pile and record observations in a journal.
  • Students measure temperature of pile weekly and graph temperatures.

Prepare planting beds without digging by using sheet composting.

  • One group prepares a planting bed using sheet composting. Another group use conventional technique.
  • Students follow the Scientific Study Format to plan and conduct experiments with their planting beds.
  • Compare results.

P.A.S.S. for these activities

Songs and Poems About Dirt, Worms and One by Walt Whitman About Compost

Poems About Gardens (from the Academy of American Poets)

It's Baseball Season

There's no baseball - or any other sport - without agriculture. Your students are thinking about sports anyway. Why not join them?

Ag in the Outfield

Ag in the Playing Fields

Facts about Agriculture in Sports

April 22 is 89er Day

Oklahoma Ag in History Lessons

What Oklahoma farm animal played a key role in Oklahoma's land runs?

A Handy Measure

Writing Prompts

  • In 200 words, describe your favorite flower.
  • Write a story about an egg.
  • Start a story with this sentence: "There's something about the smell of freshly-dug earth."
  • Write a poem about agricultural products used in baseball or some other sport.
  • Write an ode to the earth worm.
  • Pretend you are a newspaper reporter at the Oklahoma land run of 1889. Write a first-hand account.
  • Write a 250-word description of a compost pile.
  • List 10 ways to celebrate Earth Day.
  • Visit a farmer's market and describe it, using all five of your senses.
  • Write a nursery rhyme about a little boy who lost his goat.
  • Write a letter to Thomas Jefferson and tell him how agriculture is different today than it was in his day.
  • Write an April Fool story about a goat and a soybean at a baseball game.
  • Write about the most unusual place you have found or hidden an Easter egg.

P.A.S.S.

Goats

Between 1997 and 2007, the number of meat goats in the US doubled. In Oklahoma meat goat numbers grew twice as fast over the same period. Oklahoma is fourth in the nation in the production of meat goats.

One reason for the growth in Oklahoma is the increasing number of small farms and ranches. Two out of every three new farms in Oklahoma between 1997 and 2007 were smaller than 50 acres. Goats make more sense than cattle on smaller acreages.

Producers have found that meat goats are easy to handle and inexpensive to maintain. For this reason they are also gaining in popularity as show animals. One of the reasons they are easier to handle is because of their smaller size.

  • Students use the Facts about Goats and other resources to write short papers on the following topics:
    • Goats in World History
    • The Goat as an Economical Food Source
    • The Care and Feeding of Goats
    • The Many Uses for Goats."
  • The US is the largest importer of goats. Discuss this fact and possible reasons for it. Then have students research online to find answers and share their findings.
  • Students read through the Facts about Goats and organize the information in outline form.
  • Younger students list words that rhyme with goat and write short poems about goats, based on some of the goat facts.
  • Students list descriptive words about goats, based on the goat facts.

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The Fable of Franny and Her Fabulous Fainting Goat - Learn about some goats with an unusual trait.

Taming the Wild Aurochs - A time line of animal husbandry

Facts about Goats

Breeds of Goats

April

The little goat
crops
new grass lying down
leaps up eight inches
into air and
lands on four feet.
Not a tremor -
solid in the spring and serious
he walks away

Yvor Winters

  • How does the poet want the reader to feel about the little goat?
  • What qualities does the goat have? Why might he suddenly leap into the air?
  • What two meanings does the word "spring" have?

April is National Poetry Month

Ag-related Songs and Poems

Classic Cowboy Poetry

How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual

Poem in Your Pocket

Celebrate the second national Poem In Your Pocket Day April 30.

Urge students to select poems they love during National Poetry Month, then carry it with them to share with classmates, family, and friends on April 30.

Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores. Create your own Poem In Your Pocket Day event using ideas below.

  • Start a "poems for pockets" give-away in your school.
  • Urge local businesses to offer discounts for those carrying poems.
  • Post pocket-sized verses around the school.
  • Make and share bookmarks with your favorite lines from poems.
  • Urge students to post poems on their blogs or social networking pages.
  • Project a poem on a wall, inside or out.
  • Create a classroom book of poetry with favorite or original poems.

Oklahoma Vegetable of the Month: Green Garden Peas

Peas are some of the first vegetables to be planted in the garden because they are frost-hardy. That means they can stand temperatures below freezing. In fact, peas taste better when they are grown while the weather is still cool. Peas grow in pods. In some varieties, like snow peas and sugar snaps, the pods taste as good as the peas themselves, In other varieties, the peas are shelled - removed from the shells.

Green garden peas are a valuable source of protein, iron and insoluble fiber. Sugar snap peas contain less protein, but are an excellent source of iron and vitamin C.

Play With Your Food

Bring fresh green garden peas to class for students to examine and shell.

  • Students arrange the peas according to size.
  • Students estimate the number of peas in the pods before shelling them.
  • Students use tally marks to count the peas.
  • Students graph number of peas per pod.
  • Students use the peas to construct addition and subtraction facts.
  • Students develop strategies for estimating the total number of peas.
  • Students use peas to develop multiplication and division algorithms (e.g., four groups of three peas, etc.)

Be a Food Explorer

Bring fresh snow peas, canned peas and frozen peas for a taste test. Graph preferences. (Fresh peas taste good raw, right out of the shell.)

Peas (Serving Size: 1/2 cup cooked)

amounts per serving
% daily value
calories
70
calories from fat
0
total fat
0g
0%
sodium
0mg
0%
total carbohydrate
13g
4%
dietary fiber
4g
14%
sugars
5g
protein
4g
Vitamin A
15%
Vitamin C
20%
calcium
2%
iron
6%

Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Source: Centers for Disease Control

Other fresh veggies in season this month: asparagus, greens, lettuce, onions, radishes, spinach

More classroom recipes with vegetables

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Library Week is April 12-18

Check out our complete list of Ag-Related Books for Children and Young Adults

April Books

Azarian, Mary, A Gardener's Alphabet, Houghton Mifflin, 2000 (preK-4)

Alphabet book celebrating the simple joys of gardening through woodcuts.

Blood, Charles, Martin Link and Nancy Winslow Parker, The Goat in the Rug, Aladdin, 1990.

Geraldine is a goat, and Glenmae, a Navajo weaver. One day, Glenmae decides to weave Geraldine into a rug. First Geraldine is clipped. Then her wool is spun into fine, strong yarn. Finally, Glenmae weaves the wool on her loom. The reader learns, along with Geraldine, about the care and pride involved in the weaving of a Navajo rug -- and about cooperation between friends.

McBrier, Page and Lori Lohstoeter, Beatrice's Goat, Atheneum, 2001. (Grades K-3)

An impoverished family begins to flourish after receiving a special gift--of the four-legged variety--in this picture book set in western Uganda. Beatrice longs to attend school with other village children, but instead she must tend her five younger siblings and help her mother in the fields. Everything starts to change, however, when Beatrice and her family receive a goat from a charitable organization.

Burton, Robert, Egg, a Photographic Story of Hatching, Dorling Kindersley, 1994. (Grades K-3)

More than five hundred full-color, life-size, sequential photographs, with captions and text, explain the story of bird, reptile, insect, fish, and amphibian development, from the initial signs of growth through the struggle to hatch.

Cherry, Lynne, How Groundhog's Garden Grew, Blue Sky, 2003, (K-2)

Groundhog loves to eat fresh veggies from his neighbor's garden until a friend teaches him to plant his own garden.

Cole, Henry, Jack's Garden, Harper Trophy, 1997. (K-4)

A cumulative story that traces a little boy's backyard flower garden from tilling the soil to enjoying the blossoms. The text catalogs the process in a take-off on "This Is the House That Jack Built." As the garden takes shape, readers see seedlings sprout and bud, flowers open, insects and birds visit and, at last, a lovely garden in full bloom. Each double-page spread is done in soft colored pencils on various colored background. The borders contain detailed labeled drawings of tools, insects, birds, eggs, and, of course, flowers. Instructions for starting a garden complete the presentation.

Fleischman, Paul, and Judy Pederson, Seedfolks, HarperCollins, 1997. (Grades 4-7)

Using multiple voices, Fleischman takes readers to a modern inner-city neighborhood. where bit by bit the handful of lima beans an immigrant child plants in an empty lot blossoms into a community garden, tended by a notably diverse group of local residents. Toughened by the experience of putting her children through public school, Leona spends several days relentlessly bullying her way into government offices to get the lot's trash hauled away; others address the lack of readily available water, as well as problems with vandals and midnight dumpers; and though decades of waging peace on a small scale have made Sam an expert diplomat, he's unable to prevent racial and ethnic borders from forming. Still, the garden becomes a place where wounds heal, friendships form, and seeds of change are sown.

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs, and Alec Gillman, The Green Truck Garden Giveaway: A Neighborhood Story and Almanac, Simon and Schuster, 1996. (Grades K-3)

Two strangers drive their green pickup truck down Second Street, giving away almanacs and planting small gardens for reluctant neighbors. As time goes by, the gardens thrive and so do the neighbors, who begin to share their harvest of produce and happiness with others. Throughout the book, informative sidebars tell readers about topics related to the story: why medieval insomniacs ate lettuce, what to plant in order to attract butterflies, and how to make sprays that repel insects from plants.

More Gardening Books

Bial, Raymond, A Handful of Dirt, Walker and Co., 2000. (Grades 3-6)

Introduces dirt dwellers, from the tiniest protozoans through myriad invertebrates, to the mammals and reptiles whose burrows aerate the earth, all depicted in large, sharp, full-color photos. The author includes basic instructions for setting up a home compost heap.

Lavies, Bianca, Compost Critters, Dutton Children's, 1993. (Grades 4-7)

Nature's recyclers receive a close-up look, in an informative, photographic study, at the creatures, from bacteria and fungi to worms and millipedes, that break down our garbage, returning raw materials to the earth.

Miller, Susanna, and John Yates, Beans and Peas, Carolrhoda, 1990.

Describes beans and peas, the history of their cultivation and use, and their role in industry and diet. Includes some recipes.

Noyes, Deborah, and Bagram Ibatoulline, Hana in the Time of Tulips, Candlewick, 2005. (Grades K-5)

Rembrandt-inspired illustrations and text tell the story of tulip fever's impact on a Dutch family.

Ray, Mary Lyn, and Lauren Stringer, Mud, Harcourt Brace, 1996. (Grades K-3)

The joy of a child playing in mud is tied to the change of seasons. Ray uses spirited language to show a child's playfulness as the mud thaws and comes alive with spring. The point of view is at ground level, where readers can visually muck around in all that goo. The transformation of winter frost to mud serves as a spawning stage for the green of the new season.

Recommend a book.

What is the last frost date? Why does the last frost date matter?

The last frost date is the last day in spring that temperatures go below freezing. Many plants cannot withstand freezing temperatures, so gardeners and farmers must wait until all danger of frost is past before planting. Some plant earlier but provide protection (covering plants or placing a heat source near plants) when low temperatures are expected.

Common garden vegetables that are cold-sensitive include tomatoes, peppers, squash, okra and more. Cold weather garden vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach, peas, broccoli and cabbage, are not cold-sensitive and can survive light frost.

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What to do in April

April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.

by Langston Hughes

April Fool!

Celebrate April Fool's Day with this activity: Students separate into teams and choose topics from the Ag Facts link to make up true and "April Fool!" statements about agriculture. Teams quiz one another with their true and false statements.

P.A.S.S. for this activity

Other lessons for April Fool:

Easter is April 12

Easter Egg Genetics

Genetics activity with plastic Easter eggs from Acess Excellence: The National Health Museum

Ryegrass Easter Baskets

Try planting baskets with real grass. Oklahoma is number one in the nation in the production of rye grass, a cool season grass that grows very quickly. Line your Easter baskets with plastic, and put in potting medium. Sprinkle rye grass seed on the surface, and spritz to moisten. Grass should begin to grow within a few days. You may also use wheat seed, which is available as wheat berries from health food stores.

Eggshell Grass Heads

Plant ryegrass in eggshells. Make collars from paper for the eggs to rest in. Use markers to make faces on the eggshells.

P.A.S.S. for these activities

Related OAITC Lessons Online:

Gathering Eggs

  1. Set up 60-70 "nests" of straw or paper bags with tops rolled down.
  2. Place one egg (or substitue, such as ping pong balls) in each nest (5 dozen total).
  3. Group students into five groups, and provide one empty egg carton for each group.
  4. As a relay, students will collect eggs and place them in the egg cartons. One student from each group collects at a time. First group to fill their carton wins.

The extraordinary strength of the eggshell inspired one of the most beautiful architectural forms in the world—dome construction. With dome construction, weight is distributed evenly around a central point, like the large end, or air cell end, of an egg.

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is one of the oldest and most famous examples of dome construction. The Astrodome in Houston, Texas, has the largest circular-dome roof in the world. It is approximately nine acres of playing field used for baseball, football and other sporting events. Other famous domed buildings include the US Capital in Washington, DC, and the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy, designed for the 1960 Olympic Games.

Test the strength of the dome with this activity using eggs.

The Shape of Things

Sutton Center Bald Eagle Nest Camera

Check out this live video of a bald eagle sitting on her nest near Stillwater. The first egg hatched March 21. It will take a few seconds for the image to appear, but it's worth the wait.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson's Birthday is April 13.

Jefferson loved gardening and farming and was a pioneer in agricultural experimentation in our country's early years. Learn more about Jefferson and agriculture

April is Made in Oklahoma Month

Visit a Farmer's Markets

Many farmer's markets open mid-April in Oklahoma. Find the farmer's market nearest you, and introduce your students to Oklahoma-grown fruits and vegetables.

  • Discuss the difference in what fruits and vegetables farmers can grow in Oklahoma compared with other places.
  • Students draw maps from the school to the nearest farmer's market.
  • Discuss occupations related to farmer's markets.

Student Advocates:

  • Support local growers and Oklahoma agriculture by promoting farmers’ markets.
  • Visit local growers and discuss how to promote their sales.
  • Make a schedule of farmers’ markets in your area.  If none are nearby, find out how to get one in your neighborhood.
  • Develop a promotional flyer inviting students, friends and families to visit there markets.
  • Distribute flyers or contact the local newspaper to include information about the time, place, and produce available at local farmers’ markets.

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How to Pick the Best

Fresh From the Farm

The rising costs in groceries are not the result of farmers getting more for their product but the rising cost of transportation. Explore the distance food typically travels from the farm to us with this lesson:

How Far Does It Travel?

Last Frost Date

In Oklahoma, the average date of the last frost is sometime this month.

P.A.S.S for these activities

April 22 is Earth Day

OAITC Lessons for Earth Day

In April

by James Hearst

This I saw on an April day:
Warm rain spilt from a sun-lined cloud,
A sky-flung wave of gold at evening,
And a cock pheasant treading a dusty path
Shy and proud.

And this I found in an April field:
A new white calf in the sun at noon,
A flash of blue in a cool moss bank,
And tips of tulips promising flowers
To a blue-winged loon.

And this I tried to understand
As I scrubbed the rust from my brightening plow:
The movement of seed in furrowed earth,
And a blackbird whistling sweet and clear
From a green-sprayed bough.

Arbor Day is April 24

Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns

The Role of Fire in Healthy Prairie, Brush and Forest Land

Wild fires can be frightening, but is fire always a bad thing?

More Forestry Lessons

April is National Soy Foods Month

In 2007, soybeans ranked 10th among Oklahoma commodities. The soybean is called "the miracle bean" because it has so many uses. Check out these facts about soybeans, then try this lesson.

One of the crops used in the production of ethanol is soybeans. Learn more about The History of Ethanol in America.

Meet the Beans: Soybeans are Everywhere (Ohio Soybean Council)

Keep America Beautiful Month

Students will keep track of all the paper they use in a day with this activity from the lesson "Making Paper."

  • Bring two empty trash containers to class. Label one “white paper” and the other one “colored paper.”
  • Ask students how much paper they think they use in one day. Record estimates for each student.
  • Ask students how much they think the entire class uses in one day. Record estimates.
  • Explain that for one day each student will sign or initial every sheet of paper he/she throws in the trash. All the white paper will go in the trash labeled “white paper,” and all the colored paper will go in the trash can labeled “colored paper.”
  • At the end of the day students will estimate how many sheets of paper are in each recycling box.
  • Each students will estimate the number of sheets of paper he or she personally used.
  • Check the results by counting and recording this information on the board for everyone to view.
  • Students will estimate the length if papers are placed end to end in the hallway. Students will line the hallways with the paper and measure to check their estimates.
  • Students will create bar graphs showing the total amount of paper used by the class in one day.
  • Each student will create a bar graph showing how much paper he or she used.

Graphs

Paper or Plastic?

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Oklahoma Fruit of the Month: Strawberries

Strawberries can be grown throughout Oklahoma. They are the number one fruit crop for home plantings. Strawberries are the first fruits to ripen in early spring. In Oklahoma, most won't be ready until May. One cup of fresh berries supplies more than the recommended daily adult requirement for Vitamin C. 

Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds growing on the outside. More fun facts about strawberries.

Be a Food Explorer: Strawberry Bread

American Indians were already eating strawberries when the colonists arrived. The crushed berries were mixed with cornmeal and baked into strawberry bread. After trying this bread, Colonists developed their own version of the recipe and created strawberry shortcake.

Make Native American strawberry bread as described above. Crush frozen strawberries or strawberry preserves into your favorite cornbread recipe or mix. Serve with strawberry cream cheese with a few fresh strawberries on the side.

More classroom recipes with fruit

Play With Your Food: Strawberry Math

On average, there are 200 seeds on a strawberry. Using this figure, have students estimate the number of seeds in a cup of fresh strawberries. Develop a strategy for counting the seeds before eating the strawberries.

Strawberries (Serving Size: 1/2 cup, sliced)

amounts per serving
% daily value
calories
25
calories from fat
0
total fat
0g
0%
sodium
0mg
0%
total carbohydrate
6g
2%
dietary fiber
2g
7%
sugars
4g
protein
1g
Vitamin A
0%
Vitamin C
80%
calcium
2%
iron
6%

Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Source: Centers for Disease Control

P.A.S.S. for this activity

Oklahoma's Berry Best

In Strawberry Fields

DNA Blueprint for Life (DNA experiment with strawberries)

Ag in Poetry: My Strawberry

by Helen Hunt Jackson

O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pause
To reckon thee. I ask what cause
Set free so much of red from heats
At core of earth, and mixed such sweets
With sour and spice: what was that strength
Which out of darkness, length by length,
Spun all thy shining thread of vine,
Netting the fields in bond as thine.

I see thy tendrils drink by sips
From grass and clover's smiling lips;
I hear thy roots dig down for wells,
Tapping the meadow's hidden cells.

Whole generations of green things,
Descended from long lines of springs,
I see make room for thee to bide

A quiet comrade by their side;
I see the creeping peoples go
Mysterious journeys to and fro,
Treading to right and left of thee,
Doing thee homage wonderingly.

I see the wild bees as they fare,
Thy cups of honey drink, but spare.

I mark thee bathe and bathe again
In sweet unclaendared spring rain.

I watch how all May has of sun
Makes haste to have thy ripeness done,
While all her nights let dews escape
To set and cool thy perfect shape.

Ah, fruit of fruits, no more I pause
To dream and seek thy hidden laws!
I stretch my hand and dare to taste,
In instant of delicious waste
On single feast, all things that went
To make the empire thou hast spent.

Discussion and Activities

Ag in Art: Wild Strawberries

Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1799)

Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. Chardin painted humble scenes that deal with simple, everyday activities. He used blocky simple forms perfectly organized in space, and few colors, mostly earth tones. He was a master of textures, shapes, and the soft diffusion of light. Largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters. Today his paintings hang in the Louvre and other major museums. He is much admired for his still life work and portraiture in pastels. He was one of Henri Matisse's most admired painters

  • What shapes do you find in this painting?
  • Discuss the light and shadows.
  • What is the predominant color?
  • What is the contrasting color?
  • What other colors do you find?
  • What is the mood of the painting?
  • Discuss the depth perception.
  • How would the picture be different without the glass of water, the white carnations, the cherries and the peach.
  • Is there anything like a horizon in this painting? Where is it?
  • Create your own still life by arranging strawberries or other fruit. Select additional objects to display with the fruit. Draw or photograph your arrangement.
  • Write a detailed description of this painting.

More Ag in Art

P.A.S.S

Ag in Art

  • Grade 1 - Visual Arts: 1.2,3,4; 2.3; 3.2,3
  • Grade 2 - Visual Arts: 1.1,2,3,4; 2.3; 3.2,3
  • Grade 3 - Visual Arts: 1.1,2,3,4; 2.3; 3.2,3
  • Grade 4 - Visual Arts: 1.2,3; 3.1,2
  • Grade 5 - Visual Arts: 1.2; 3.1,2

April Fool

  • Grade 3 - Reading: 4.1ad,2c; 5.1b. Oral Language: 1.1,2; 3.2
  • Grade 4 - Reading: 3.1b,2d,4a; 4.1b. Oral Language: 1.2; 3.2
  • Grade 5 - Reading: 3.2e; 4.1b. Writing: 2.1. Oral Language: 3.2

Farmer's Market

  • Grade 1 - Social Studies: 2.3; 5.1,2
  • Grade 2 - Social Studies: 2.1,3; 4.1; 5.2

Floriculture

  • Kindergarten - Creative Skills: 1.3
  • Grade 1 - Science Process: 1.2; 4.3. Physical Science: 1.1. Social Studies: 5.2. Visual Arts: 3.1,2
  • Grade 2 - Science Process: 1.2; 2.1; 4.3. Social Studies: 4.2; 5.2. Visual Arts: 3.1,2
  • Grade 3 - Science Process: 1.2; 2.1; 4.3. Social Studies: 4.3; 5.1,3. Visual Arts: 3.1,2
  • Grade 4 - Science Process: 1.2; 2.1; 4.1,4. Life Science: 3.2. Social Studies: 4.2. Visual Arts: 3.1,2
  • Grade 5 - Science Process: 1.2; 2.1; 4.1,4. Physical Science: 1.1. Social Studies: 7.5. Visual Arts: 3.1,2

Goats

  • Grade 1 - Reading: 2.1. Writing: 2.4. Oral Language: 2.2,6. Social Studies: 1.1; 4.1,2; 5.1
  • Grade 2 - Writing: 2.5. Reading: 5.1a. Social Studies: 1.1; 4.2
  • Grade 3 - Reading: 6.2b. Writing: 2.1,2,3ab. Social Studies: 1.1; 5.2
  • Grade 4 - Reading: 3.1b,3c; 4.1b,2b. Writing: 1.1,6; 2.4c,6. Oral Language: 3.2. Social Studies: 1.1; 5.5
  • Grade 5 - Reading: 3.1b,5.2bd. Writing: 2.5ce,6acd. Oral Language: 2.6; 3.2. Social Studies: 7.5
  • Grade 6 - Reading: 3.1b,3ad; 5.1b,2a. Writing: 1.2; 2.2c,7. Oral Language: 2.1. Social Studies: 1.3; 3.2
  • Grade 7 - Reading: 3.1a,31d; 5.1b,2a. Writing: 1.2; 2.2b,8. Oral Language: 2.1. Social Studies 1.1; 4.4
  • Grade 8 - Reading: 3.1a,3ab; 5.1a,2a. Writing: 1.2; 2.2b,8. Oral Language: 2.1. Social Studies: 1.1

Last Frost Date

  • Grade 1 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.3. Earth Science: 3.1,2
  • Grade 2 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.3.
  • Grade 3 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.3.
  • Grade 4 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.3. Life Science: 3.1,2
  • Grade 5 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.3. Life Science: 2.2. Earth Science: 3.2
  • Grade 6 - Science Process: 1.2,3. Earth Science: 5.3
  • Grade 7 - Science Process: 1.2,3. Life Science: 4.2. Earth Science: 6.2
  • Grade 8 - Science Proces: 1.2,3.

National Gardening Month

  • Grade 1 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.1,2,3; 4.3. Physical Science: 1.1. Life Science: 2.1,2
  • Grade 2 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.1,2,3; 4.3. Life Science: 2.1. Earth Science: 3.1
  • Grade 3 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.1,2,3; 4.3. Life Science: 2.1,2. Earth Science: 3.2
  • Grade 4 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.1,2,3; 4.1,3,4; 5.1,3,4. Life Science: 3.1,2
  • Grade 5 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 2.1; 3.1,2,3; 4.1,3,4; 5.1,3,4. Life Science: 2.2. Earth Science: 3.1
  • Grade 6 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 3.1,2,3,4,5; 4.1,3,4,5; 5.1,3,4. Physical Science: 1.1. Life Science: 4.1
  • Grade 7 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 3.1,2,3,4,5; 4.1,3,4,5; 5.1,3,4. Life Science: 4.2
  • Grade 8 - Science Process: 1.1,2; 3.1,2,3,4,5; 4.1,3,4,5; 5.1,3,4. Physical Science: 1.2. Life Science: 3.1

Peas

  • Pre-Kindergarten - Math: 2.2,3,4; 4.2,3; 5.2
  • Kindergarten - Math: 2.4,8; 4.2,3; 5.1,2
  • Grade 1 - Math Process: 1.1,2; 2.1,3; 3.2,3; 4.1,4; 5.1,2. Math Content: 2.2a,4; 3.1ab,3; 5.1,2
  • Grade 2 - Math Process: 1.1,2; 2.1,3; 3.2,3; 4.1,4; 5.1,2. Math Content: 3.1b; 5.2,3
  • Grade 3 - Math Process: 1.1,2; 2.1,3; 3.2,3; 4.1,4; 5.1,2. Math Content: 3.1; 5.1ac
  • Grade 4 - Math Process: 1.1,2; 2.1,3; 3.2,3; 4.1,4; 5.1,2. Math Content: 3.2b; 5.1ab
  • Grade 5 - Math Process: 1.1,2; 2.1,3; 3.2,3; 4.1,4; 5.1,2. Math Content: 3.2a; 5.1a

Strawberry Math

  • Grade 4 - Math Process: 1.1,2,3,5; 2.3; 3.3; 4.4. Math Content: 3.1; 4.4b
  • Grade 5 - Math Process: 1.1,2,3,5; 2.3; 3.3; 4.4. Math Content: 4.4

Writing Prompts

  • Pre-Kindergarten - Writing: 9.3,4
  • Kindergarten - Writing: 1.1,2
  • Grade 1 - Writing: 2.1,2,4,5
  • Grade 2 - Writing: 2.1,2abc,3,5
  • Grade 3 - Writing: 2.1,2,3ab,4,5,6abc
  • Grade 4 - Writing: 2.1abcd,2,3
  • Grade 5 - Writing: 2.1,2,4
  • Grade 6 - Writing: 2.1abc,2abc,4,7,8
  • Grade 7 - Writing: 2.1abcde,8,9
  • Grade 8 - Writing: 2.1a,8,9