Ag Literacy
Herbert Parks
Tennessee Foundation for Ag in the Classroom National AITC Conference Fort Lauderdale, FL June 2011
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Ag Literacy Herbert Parks Tennessee Foundation for Ag in the Classroom National AITC Conference Fort Lauderdale, FL June 2011 Ag Literacy Pre-K through 2 nd Grade By integrating activities with agriculture themed books: Teachers will
Tennessee Foundation for Ag in the Classroom National AITC Conference Fort Lauderdale, FL June 2011
Pre-K through 2nd Grade
By integrating activities with agriculture themed
books:
Teachers will welcome agriculture into their
reading programs
Adding an activity to a story helps reading
retention by 75-90%.
Harry E. Wilson
I learn so I may teach I teach because I learn I teach because it’s hard I teach because it’s easy I teach to share the treasurers I have found I teach to show how one may find one’s own treasurers I teach to see more clearly I teach for the joy of watching children learn I teach to see children sharing, discovering, teaching…. Learning I teach to share the joy of learning I teach to see the smiles I teach to smile I SMILE OFTEN
garden book
Seed Germination Planting Vegetables Plant an outdoor garden Match names to vegetables Counting Recipe for vegetable soup
biscuits
biscuit recipe
Saying no to
strangers
Ice Cream
Chemistry
Water Soil Sunshine Watching the
process from seed to plant
How cheese is
made
Process from cow
to pizza
Food Pyramid--
Dairy
Learn about
spread of illness
Germs and
bacteria
How to was your
hands
Wool Milk Meat Wool (or cotton ball) Sheep
Mouse protects a
strawberry for himself
Make paper
strawberries
Imagination Sharing
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear
Tree providing for
a boy
Plant a tree Making apple
butter
Make a tree
Relating Agriculture
to technology
Hand Puppets Where food comes
from
Purple cow dessert
All about pumpkins Paper plate pumpkin Gut a pumpkin Taste pumpkin seeds Pumpkin seed letters
Pig eats too much
and gets stuck
Number pig Picture of farm
and animals
Paper bag puppet
Farm equipment
comes to life
Seeds & gestation Draw favorite
character and write about it
Elements and
patience
Make a hat Different types of
growth
Fruit Vegetables
Pumpkins fall off
a truck in her yard
Make pumpkin
pie
Pumpkin face Sink or float
Making a present Letters Setting the
“moo-oo-ood”
Colorful cows
Sank the boat How now brown
cow
Til’ the cows
come home
Graph favorite
dairy foods
Paper plate duck Writing Colorful quilt
Pig mask Paper plate pig
Stuffed pumpkin Paint a pumpkin Carve a pumpkin Make your own
pumpkin book
Decorate picture
with corn kernels
Corn pictures Place cards
Bag planting Journals Discuss and write
about book
Word search Color of foods Cow puppet
Macaroni Necklaces Gummy worm
stretch
Worm watch Worm condo
Goat puppet Maze Goat toilet paper
roll craft
Pig puppet Pork for dinner
Sheep puppet Puzzle
Draw a picture Vocabulary Veggie games
Life cycle of
chicken
Let’s make a deal
game
Order of Events Food Write short stories
Plant growth chart
Potato stamp Sunflower seeds
for birds
Food pyramid—
vegetables and fruits
Draw a picture Label farm
machines
Write about the
story
Century farm sign Compare 100 to
today
Chart animals that
the class has
Make a bar graph
Make an
instrument
Ear of corn
Word Search Plant seeds
Make a tractor Compare tractor
Matching to
animals
Draw a tractor Color a tractor
Cotton kit Draw a picture
Pumpkin pats Coloring sheet Decorate a
pumpkin
Cut a tomato Taste Look at the seeds
Plant pumpkin
seeds
Roast pumpkin
seeds
Eat green eggs
and ham
Discuss what
animals produce eggs and ham
Make stick
puppets