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Thursday, June
24, 4:35-5:25 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 Walk this Way: From
Cyberspace to the
Classroom to
Better Health
All Levels
Rebecca Davis,
University of Maryland Extension
Walk this Way will explore creative
ways to encourage physical activity
through technology while
highlighting agriculture, history
and geography across the US and the world. Presenters will
showcase youth centered, web
resources ranging from walking
across the state of
Texas, Illinois,
or
Maryland
to following the Iditarod Trail or
across the Scottish Highlands.
#2 Cooks and Books:
Integrating Agriculture &
Food
Science through Literature
(also offered
in Session 3)
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 Ag in the Classroom
Power Point Lessons
Grades K-5
Audrey Harmon,
Kindergarten, Morrison, OK
Come experience several AITC Power
Point lessons that will enrich AITC
lessons.
These slideshows add pictures
to the lessons and increase
students’ interest levels and add
excitement.
These lessons cover a broad
range of topics from cattle to
grapes and from sheep to pumpkins
and are available to each
participant, free of charge!
Lessons are offered in Power
Point & Keynote versions so that
anyone can access them and use them
easily.
#4 Make Reading Ag-Citing
Grades K-2
Dewandee Neyman, Alabama AITC
Participants will learn fun,
innovative and ag-citing hands on
activities to share with their
students as well as be introduced to
books that can be used to encourage
ag literacy and education in the
classroom.
Each attendee will receive a
book.
#5 Goats in the Classroom
- What Fun!
Grades K-8
Sarah Shriner, Middletown High
School, Maryland
One of Maryland’s latest programs is
Goats in the Classroom.
This session provides
literature links such as the Three
Billy Goats Gruff, Beatrice’s Goat
and The Goat Lady and activities
with a live visit in the school with
kid goats.
Workshops participants will
receive the resources necessary to
replicate the lessons in K-8th
grades as well as some tips/problems
encountered in managing live animals
in a school setting.
#6 A World of
Opportunities
Grades 6-12
Jamie Picardy, Fisher College &
Middlesex Community College
This workshop focuses on the various
technical career opportunities
within the area of agriculture,
environmental science, and natural
resource conservation.
Participants will learn how
to introduce ag careers, such as
biological engineering and
veterinary medicine, to assess
student skills and interests, and to
share secondary and post-secondary
educational preparation for ag
careers with their students.
Participants will leave the
workshop with all activities to
accomplish these three goals.
#7 Developing Community
Partnerships
for your School &
Classroom
All
Levels
Anna Lyles,
Mesilla Valley Maze/Lyles Farms
Foundation
Many teachers, who are integrating
Agriculture in the Classroom, find
that the lack of real life
applications hampers their ability
to successfully share Ag information
with their students. What they need
are personal connections with the
world of farming that can directly
impact the students understanding of
Agriculture. This workshop will
present ideas and examples which
will give classroom teachers and
school administrators the tools
necessary to develop personal
relationships and professional
partnerships with those people
directly and indirectly involved
with the farming community.
Discussion and resource ideas will
focus on people, businesses and
organizations that are able to
provide funds and knowledge that can
enrich the educational experience.
#8 Awesome Agriculture for
Kids
(also offered
in Session 3)
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.
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