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Saturday, June
26, 8:00-8:50 am
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 Teaching about
Agriculture and Good Nutrition
All Levels
Lisa Gaskalla, Florida AITC
Teachers and agriculture industry
volunteers are invited to this
session about how Florida AITC has
developed an educational tool that
teaches students about the state’s
agriculture production and good
nutrition at the same time.
“Growing Up Healthy with Food from
Florida” is an eight-page activity
newspaper for 3rd, 4th
and 5th graders that
teaches students about the state’s
production of orange juice,
grapefruit, strawberries,
blueberries, vegetables, rice,
peanuts, beef, seafood and dairy
products. It includes facts and
figures about the nutritional value
of these commodities and the
importance of including them in a
healthy diet.
Join Florida’s AITC’s State Contact as she walks educators
through the guide and conducts
activities that drive home the
message of the importance of
Florida
agriculture and the role it plays in
healthy eating.
#2 Gardening with Kids the
Easy Way
All Levels
Heather Burt, Filtrexx
International, Ohio
Discuss the benefits of gardening in
school environments and ways to get
started regardless of space and
budget limitations. Session will
highlight activities and ideas
represented in a new activity book
from the United States Compost
Council, the National Gardening
Association and Filtrexx
International.
Topics range from how to use
community resources to implement a
low cost growing systems, list of
activities with curriculum
connections, ways to use compost to
improve garden efficiency, small
things you can do to get started
composting in schools, plus general
information that will give people
the confidence they need to start
gardening with children.
#3 Mama Mia Pizzeria
(also offered
in Session 8)
Grades K-5
Joni Wallman,
Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc.
Having a great theme and having fun will make
learning enjoyable for everyone.
We’ve taken everyone’s favorite food
and turned it into a variety of
lessons that use agriculture,
science, math, and English. Come and
get ideas that you can use as an
entire theme or break apart and use
individually. Ideas include making
cheese in the classroom, making a
pizza garden, learning how all the
parts of a pizza come from a farm,
get a glimpse of the great books
about pizza that your students will
love, and get moving to some pizza
exercises! A Pizzeria in your
classroom!
#4 Assessment of Your Ag
Literacy Program
All Levels
Monica Pastor,
University of Arizona Cooperative
Extension
How do you measure the effectiveness
of your Ag Literacy program?
If you are a classroom
teacher, a State Contact, or an
informal educator this workshop will
help you with ideas on how to assess
your student's knowledge,
comprehension and application of the
information you have taught.
Performance-based assessment
ideas will be shared as well as
results of research of Ag Literacy
program effectiveness that has been
conducted.
Learn about the results of
the USDA funded AITC: Academic
Achievement Study and the
recommendations for new research
ideas.
Also, bring ideas on how you
assess your program.
#5 Bringing Agriculture
into the Elementary Classroom
Grades K-5
Kristy Chastine, Tennessee
Foundation for AITC
Have you ever wondered how to bring
agriculture into your classroom?
Farm animals aren’t allowed.
Crops have already been
harvested.
Resources for a field trip
are limited.
BOOKS are your answer!!
Come see Tennessee’s Agricultural Literacy Library put
together to bring agriculture to the
classroom when other resources are
limited.
This library includes eleven
ag-themed children’s books and is
full of hands-on activities.
Learn how to put together
your own Agricultural Literacy
Library, get book ideas, obtain
hands-on activities, and discover
other ideas to bring agriculture
into the classroom with limited
resources.
#6 Here a Seed, There a
Seed
(also offered
in Session 8)
Grades K-3
Tonya Wible, PA
Friends of Ag Foundation
Watching seeds germinate brings
delight to both children and adults.
This session provides an
opportunity to “dig in” to many
different seed activities that can
be “planted” in your classrooms to
foster hands-on learning with your
students.
Come learn how to plant the
seeds of inquiry in your students
and then take them back to your
classroom to watch the learning
grow!
#7 Get SMART with Illinois
Ag in the Classroom
(also offered
in Session 8)
All
Levels
Kelly Murphy & Carrie
Schreiber, Illinois AITC
Attendees at this workshop will be
exposed to multiple SMART Board
lessons related directly to AITC.
Enter the next age of
teaching technology, and find what
is available for your AITC lesson
plans at the click of a mouse.
#8 Farm to Table & Beyond
(also offered
in Session 8)
Grades 3-8
Pamela Koch,
Teachers College Columbia University
With food sustainability a growing
topic, we will demonstrate
activities from our teacher guide
Farm to Table & Beyond to
incorporate the study of food, food
system and the natural environment
into science class. Educators will
learn how to conduct inquiry-based
investigations that explore how food
travels from the farm to our table,
and how the environment is affected
by our current food system. Through
these experiences students will
enrich their knowledge of our food
system by conducting hands-on
activities, self-exploration and
scientific analyses.
Teachers will receive a
packet of activities ready for
classroom use.
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