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Thursday, June
24, 3:30-4:20 pm
Select your workshop when you
register! This year participants
will have the opportunity to select
their first choice and an alternate
for each workshop session time slot
when registering.
Every effort will be made to provide
you with your top choices.
Admittance tickets for each session
will be in your registration packet.
The earlier you register, the
better your chances of getting your
desired workshop sessions.
Presenters have designated grade
levels for their workshop sessions.
Frequently, the ideas and
lessons shared can be adjusted up or
down depending on the age of the
group you are educating.
The grade levels are merely
suggestions and you are welcome to
attend any session.
Please understand that the program
may change due to circumstances
beyond our control which may
necessitate session changes.
#1 Up for the Challenge:
Lifetime Fitness,
Healthy Decisions
All Levels
Rebecca Davis &
Karol Dyson,
University of Maryland Extension
Up for the Challenge
is a fitness, nutrition and health
curriculum for school-aged, middle
school and teen youth.
It is adaptable to in-school
or afterschool setting.
The 290-page curriculum is
divided into five chapters with each
chapter containing multiple lessons
in physical activity, nutrition and
healthy decision making.
Lessons range in scope and
length from 30-60 minute and consist
of hands-on nutrition and physical
activities.
Each lesson provides expected
youth outcomes, instructor essential
information, preparation
instructions, supplies, lesson time,
a technology component, handouts and
opportunities for reflection.
This workshop will
demonstrate how
Up for
the Challenge can be used to develop, support and promote the
nutrition/agriculture connection.
#2 Cooks and Books:
Integrating Agriculture &
Food
Science through Literature
(also offered
in Session 4)
Grades 3-5
Kelly Murphy & Jackie Jones,
Illinois AITC
Through classic tales of cooking, we
will make agriculture and food
science connections.
This session will explore
several "cook" books as literature
combining math, social sciences,
language, and food science into one
tasty workshop.
Books with agriculture
companion lessons include:
All in Just One Cookie,
A Song for Lena,
Cook-a-doodle-doo, A Cow, A
Bee, A Cookie and Me, and the
Little Red Hen Makes a
Pizza.
You will leave this session
with practical lessons ready to pick
up and use as a classroom teacher or
a volunteer!
#3 It's All about the Food
Grades 3-8
Ann Numan &
Katherine Griffin, International
Plant Nutrition Institute
In this exciting, fast-paced
workshop, participants will learn
about the scope of food requirements
and the role of agriculture in
meeting the needs of the world.
Investigations concerned with
bananas, potatoes, wheat, and corn
will involve participants in using
critical thinking skills to collect,
compare, summarize and analyze data
to determine relationships among the
needs and processes of plants and
food production.
Each participant will receive
the 60-page activity/lesson-plan
booklet It’s All About the Food.
Also, each participant will receive
a CD of activities and the booklets
Understanding Nitrogen in Our
World and Fun with the Plant
Nutrient Team.
#4 Double Jeopardy:
Agriculture & Climate Status
Grades 3-8
Lorri Brenneman,
Montana Dept.
of Agriculture/Ag in Montana Schools
Agriculture’s role in our energy
crisis is today’s news!
Want to learn about non
biased curriculum on climate status,
alternative energy, and the role
agriculture plays in our energy
future?
Participants will join in an
agricultural based jeopardy game and
learn the tools for developing their
own jeopardy game based upon their
states role in agriculture, climate
status, and alternative energy.
#5 BOOK IT! Reading
Strategies that Work ...
and Align
Your Ag Lessons to Standards
All Levels
Kristen Wescott, Maine AITC
Using a variety of text, related to
agricultural themes, we will model
the teaching of a variety of reading
strategies for upper elementary
classrooms, grade 3 - 6.
Participants will select a book and
will use sticky notes to write,
chart and discuss strategies such as
predictions, connections, summaries,
inference and expressive words while
reading. We will chart words for
word work and phonemic awareness and
set up KWL charts.
The instructor will also
model public speaking exercises and
state Ag. Lessons through the use of
a state “float” pageant and a state
agriculture book written by the
class.
#6 Hi, Cotton!
All Levels
Louise Lamm & Ellen Gould,
North Carolina
AITC
Last year, NC Ag in the Classroom
provided a sneak peek of its new
lesson set about cotton. From
Pre-Kindergarten through High
School, there is important
information to gather about how
cotton affects our economy, food
system, clothing choices, and every
day life. The lessons are now
complete and packaged properly.
Every school system in North Carolina now
possesses a lesson set complete with
“anchor” books for various age
levels. The lessons are now online
and available to all educators. Join
us for the official unveiling and a
fun filled introduction to “Hi,
Cotton!”
#7 Assembly Line Antics
(also offered
in Session 4)
Grades 3-6
Tonya Wible, PA Friends of Ag
Foundation & Sharon Fox,
Maryland Ag Ed Foundation
Students are far removed from the
processes that take food from the
farm to their tables.
This interactive session
traces the myriad of farmers and
workers necessary to complete this
process.
Active engagement in a mock
assembly line simulation provides
excitement, enthusiasm, and
real-life learning for all
participants.
From this session, take back
to your classroom all
materials—including job badges &
recipes—to replicate this fun-filled
learning experience with your
students. (Based on lesson
originally developed by Alison
Billman)
#8 Connecting Your Program
to FFA
Grades 6-8
Melinda
Bunselmeyer, FCAE
Wanting to connect to high school
students who are interested in
Agricultural Literacy?
Agriculture students have
Agricultural Education as their SAE.
Those students need hours,
resources, materials and ideas to
get started or expand their SAE.
This workshop will provide
practical experiences for educators,
state contacts and agriculture
literacy coordinators to connect
with high school students.
This in turn will help to
expand programs and reach more
students.
Participants will discover
examples and initiatives to connect
high school students to elementary
teachers, as well as, county and
state Agriculture Literacy contacts.
#9 Awesome Agriculture for
Kids
(also offered
in Session 4)
All
Levels
Susan Anderson & JoAnne Buggey,
Univ. of Minnesota, Southwest
Research & Outreach Center
This session will include "Agri
Culture" (a tractor) and the Awesome
Agriculture for Kids Series.
It will integrate agriculture
into your primary or intermediate
classroom using children's books
from the series.
Books will be the focus of
inquiry: modeling pedagogy, graphic
organizers, and informal assessment.
Graphic organizers such as an
A to Z list and concept maps will be
used.
Applications to other areas
of agriculture will be introduced.
Participants will receive
handouts and a chance to win a book
from the series.
#10 Electrify Your
Education
Grades 3-8
Natalie
Bothwell, Lake Superior College
Explore fun and interactive
ways to teach students about science
while improving research and reading
skills. Take the energy
challenge and
play energy games in this hands-on
workshop that will leave you with
lots of activities and ideas to use
for students to learn about
science, renewable energy and ways
to help our environment.
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