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🌴 State Ag Profiles: Gulf Coast & Caribbean
The Gulf Coast & Caribbean set covers four states and one U.S. territory, from poultry and pine forests to crawfish ponds and mountain coffee. Each profile in the set follows the same format, so students build consistent vocabulary and comprehension skills while comparing how geography and history have shaped agriculture differently in each place.
Explore the region through:
- Florida, which supplies nearly 95 percent of the ornamental fish raised in the United States and is growing citrus under protective screens to fight citrus greening
- Alabama, where Dothan calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World and farms within a hundred miles of the city grow more than half of the nation's peanut crop
- Louisiana, where farmers flood rice paddies each fall to raise crawfish in rotation, helping the state lead the nation in crawfish production
- Mississippi, the nation's leader in farm-raised catfish, where researchers crossed channel catfish with blue catfish to create a hybrid that grows faster and resists disease
- Puerto Rico, a territory where the climate allows year-round growing, yet more than 80 percent of the food residents eat is imported
A great tie-in for: state agriculture units, geography, ag economics, and regional comparison lessons.
These work as an introduction to a regional agriculture unit, an FFA Week or Ag Literacy Week activity, or a set of substitute lessons that still teach something real. Students who think of agriculture as just what happens locally will often see it differently once they compare five states side by side.
📁 What's Included:
- Reading Passage: a six-paragraph state profile covering geography, top commodities, economic impact, lesser-known specialties, challenges, and the future outlook for agriculture in the state
- Vocabulary Page: twelve terms pulled from the passage with dictionary definitions and original example sentences
- Reading Comprehension Questions with Answer Key: ten questions anchored to specific passage content, each built around a vocabulary term, with a full answer key
- Vocabulary Assessment with Answer Key: twelve multiple choice questions testing word meaning, with a complete answer key
Our shipping is based on total order amount. Shipping will be automatically calculated when shopping online. (There is no shipping charged on digital download products. I mean who would do that really?)
We ship by UPS. You will receive a tracking number when your order ships.
If you are completing a School Purchase Order or if you just want to estimate your total expenses use the following information:
- For order totals $100 and under ---- add $15
- For order totals $101 to $340 ---- add $20
- Order totals over $350 ---- add $30
- Make sure to provide a physical address...UPS will NOT deliver to a Post Office box. We tried. Then we received a firm talking to and we had to go to bed without dinner. Please don't make us try that again.
🔒 Annual Member Exclusive
🌴 State Ag Profiles: Gulf Coast & Caribbean
The Gulf Coast & Caribbean set covers four states and one U.S. territory, from poultry and pine forests to crawfish ponds and mountain coffee. Each profile in the set follows the same format, so students build consistent vocabulary and comprehension skills while comparing how geography and history have shaped agriculture differently in each place.
Explore the region through:
- Florida, which supplies nearly 95 percent of the ornamental fish raised in the United States and is growing citrus under protective screens to fight citrus greening
- Alabama, where Dothan calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World and farms within a hundred miles of the city grow more than half of the nation's peanut crop
- Louisiana, where farmers flood rice paddies each fall to raise crawfish in rotation, helping the state lead the nation in crawfish production
- Mississippi, the nation's leader in farm-raised catfish, where researchers crossed channel catfish with blue catfish to create a hybrid that grows faster and resists disease
- Puerto Rico, a territory where the climate allows year-round growing, yet more than 80 percent of the food residents eat is imported
A great tie-in for: state agriculture units, geography, ag economics, and regional comparison lessons.
These work as an introduction to a regional agriculture unit, an FFA Week or Ag Literacy Week activity, or a set of substitute lessons that still teach something real. Students who think of agriculture as just what happens locally will often see it differently once they compare five states side by side.
📁 What's Included:
- Reading Passage: a six-paragraph state profile covering geography, top commodities, economic impact, lesser-known specialties, challenges, and the future outlook for agriculture in the state
- Vocabulary Page: twelve terms pulled from the passage with dictionary definitions and original example sentences
- Reading Comprehension Questions with Answer Key: ten questions anchored to specific passage content, each built around a vocabulary term, with a full answer key
- Vocabulary Assessment with Answer Key: twelve multiple choice questions testing word meaning, with a complete answer key
Our shipping is based on total order amount. Shipping will be automatically calculated when shopping online. (There is no shipping charged on digital download products. I mean who would do that really?)
We ship by UPS. You will receive a tracking number when your order ships.
If you are completing a School Purchase Order or if you just want to estimate your total expenses use the following information:
- For order totals $100 and under ---- add $15
- For order totals $101 to $340 ---- add $20
- Order totals over $350 ---- add $30
- Make sure to provide a physical address...UPS will NOT deliver to a Post Office box. We tried. Then we received a firm talking to and we had to go to bed without dinner. Please don't make us try that again.