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Thursday, June
24, 10:30-11:50 am
The
2010 National Ag in the Classroom
Conference will open with
both exciting
Roundtable Presentations
showcasing hands-on activities and
the
Share Your Best Resource
Fair
with many new, engaging
displays.
Visit the Roundtable
Presentations, stroll through the
Share Your Best exhibits or
combine them both for an energizing
start to the Conference.
#1 Ag Books to Go!
Tonya Wible, PA Friends of Ag
Foundation & MAEF Staff
Many pieces of AG literature that
can be incorporated into the
classroom contain concepts, ideas,
and information that you want
students to learn about agriculture.
A simple piece of paper, by
bending it or folding it or cutting
it, can become an interesting
mini-book to make with your students
as a tool to teach, reinforce and
review concepts.
Come see how this can be done
in conjunction with literature such
as
Pumpkin Circle,
Pancakes,
Pancakes,
Oh Say Can You Seed, and
The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza.
#2
Detective Agriculture Discovers
Some Awesome Ag Facts
MAEF Staff
What do you know about agriculture?
Check out this easy to
assemble display / learning center
where students use their thinking
skills as they
fill in a tic-tac-toe card
with the answers to some Awe-some AG
awareness facts.
Easily adaptable to a variety
of learning experiences.
#3 Join Us at the Fair
MAEF Staff
Come learn about several easily
incorporated and adaptable farm
related “make & take” activities
that will draw crowds to your
organization’s booth or table at
events such as state or county
fairs.
Activities shared include:
Pot Pals, Bookmarks, and Fans
to Go!
#4 The Pig Professor
PA Friends of Ag Foundation Staff
This 3D interactive fair/event
display encourages participants to
explore and discover the farm
origins of many common products they
use in their daily life.
Come learn how to easily
adapt this educational activity to a
variety of agricultural commodities.
#5 "I Scream, You Scream,
We All Love Ice Cream"
Verneta Gaskins, USDA-ARS-Beltsville
Ag Research Center
A class can use available materials
while exploring principles of
science.
By utilizing the quick
freezing capacity of sublimating
“dry ice”, students can use
ingredients from an ice cream recipe
to make a treat.
Students watch as what seems
to be a bubbling hot concoction
makes a frozen treat, demonstrating
the different states of mater. The
quick visual of liquid dairy
products, flavoring and sugar
combining will demonstrate physical
reactions.
Chemical reactions can be
observed by tasting the slightly
“carbonated” flavor of the ice
cream.
The pH of the end product
will indeed be slightly lower than
standard products because of the use
of the liberation of CO2
during the process. Students can
also note the transfer of heat and
cold by feeling how quickly the
materials containing the products
cool or warm.
#6 Corn Cob Dolls
Jamey Allen, Oklahoma AITC
Participants will make dolls from
corn cobs and learn of the many uses
for corn, both historically and
today.
#7 Scatter Square Dance
Dana Besinger, Oklahoma AITC
Scatter Square Dance gets
participants up on their feet and
moving.
It teaches listening,
leadership, and citizenship skills
as well as pioneer history.
#8 Awesome Journals with
Soil Painting
Ginger Deitz & Jill Vigesaa, Bennett
Elementary & Foster County SCD
We would be interested in sharing
the unique journal book covers that
are made from some very simple
materials but look awesome.
We have made them in our
Land/Water Conservation Classes and
they are always a hit.
The finished product looks
and feels like thin birch bark.
The demo would show how you
utilize construction paper, strips
of toilet paper and watered down
glue to make the cover and then
paint it with soils from across the
state.
Teachers love to have the
students use the cover for their
“Know your State” books, which is
very fitting for the soil painting.
#9 Folding into Books
Judy Ferrell, ODAFF - Ag in the
Classroom
“Folding into Books” is a wealth of
ideas utilizing the four basic
curricula and agriculture in
writing, displaying gathered
information through graphs and
folded squares/circles, and
journaling.
#10 The Farmer's Stairway
to Success
Lindsey Keith-Vincent & Diane
Madden, Louisiana Tech University
IDEA Place
The Farmer’s Stairway to Success
is a simple game that can be
manipulated to meet the needs of
students at any grade level with any
agriculture content. The game can be
played in multiple ways including
with erasable cards or blank card
templates. Teachers can customize
the content reviewed. Students can
read the cards and determine how
many spaces to move. Answering the
questions is another format and can
also determine how many steps are
taken. Students create their board
and their farmers. Students play in
pairs and strive to beat each other
to the top of the staircase.
#11 Don't be
Bee"wheel"dered by the Bee Life
Cycle
Lindsey Keith-Vincent & Diane
Madden, Louisiana Tech University
IDEA Place
Don’t be Bee“wheel”dered by the Bee
Life Cycle any longer with this
basic review circle tool. Teachers
can insert information on the bee
life cycle and many other phenomena
in the world of Agricultural
Sciences.
The circle with two windows
is attached atop the other circle
with the information and clipart of
the bee life cycle stages. They are
attached with a small brad.
Information about the stage will
then be showcased only when the
corresponding clipart is showcased.
#12 Build
an Ag Crate & Show Off
Your State's Commodities
MAEF Staff
A simple wooden crate filled with
icons of commodities is a sure way
to help students discover your
state’s top commodities.
Teachers/students get to
hammer and build the crate and then
add the commodity reminders!
#13 Ag Education by the
"Cow Family"
Rebecca Chaney
Touting
themselves as “Agricultural
Warriors,” Rebecca, Rianna and
Sheridan Chaney are proud they are
taking their agricultural message on
the road. In 2009 the trio visited
eight schools reaching 1,300
students. Their interactive
45-minute agricultural presentation
has dubbed them the “Cow Family” by
students. Students learn fun farming
facts, play an agricultural jeopardy
game and Rebecca reads an ag
educational children's book written
from the perspective of her
five-year-old twin daughters. She
and her girls welcome the
opportunity to share this message
with American teachers.
#14 Agricultural Themed
Classrooms
Katie Buhl, Melissa Valley Maze, TX
Come learn about some ideas and
examples of themed classrooms that
incorporate agriculture in its
design and layout.
See how Agriculture and its
products can be tied into class
design themes, covering topics from
Jungles to Sports and those in
between using simple craft ideas,
activities and centers.
#15 Butterfly Bonanza
Nancy Sale, Miami-Dade County Public
Schools
Children are fascinated with
butterflies!
Stop by for a roadmap to
success for implementing a Butterfly
Habitat featuring native plants.
Participants will examine
creative, environmentally friendly
methods for establishing,
maintaining, and utilizing their
Butterfly
Garden, with a goal of
mastering state and national
standards.
Find out how to create your
own budget-friendly magical outdoor
classroom. Check out the
plastic bag with all the materials
needed to illustrate the life cycle
of the Monarch Butterfly.
#16 Table Tops That Pop!
Mary Concannon, University of
Maryland Extension, Baltimore County
State/County Agricultural Fairs and
school health fairs are a great
place to use our table top displays
that pop with eye-catching nutrition
information!
University
of Maryland
Extension Baltimore
County developed a series of
nutrition and food safety displays (see
website here).
Each display includes a
half-page handout designed for teen
and adult audiences to reinforce
current nutrition and food safety
topics.
If you like the examples you
see, give us your contact
information and we’ll send you a
c.d. with the display art work so
you can use them at your next event!
#17
Classroom Crafts:
Creating Commodity Cookbooks
Lisa Owens, Lincoln Parish Farm
Bureau, LA
Learn how to create a classroom
cookbook composed of recipes that
feature agricultural commodities.
This inexpensive project
allows the teacher an opportunity to
emphasize the importance of local or
regional crops and allows each
student a chance to express personal
creativity through art and writing.
Composed of a wide variety of
materials, from recycled newspapers
and magazines to computer-generated
graphics, sample cookbooks will
showcase different options available
for all subject areas and grade
levels.
Participants will take home a
list of free resources that can be
used to implement this classroom
craft project.
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