Ag in the Classroom

Join us for next year's workshop:
July 15 - 20, 2012
(2012 application forms have now been posted)

  • It is a great learning experience for K - 12 teachers!
  • It is not a course to learn to become a farmer.
  • It is a busy week-long experience to learn about the food and fiber system.
  • It is not plows, sows and cows. 
  • It is a place to received materials and resources to use in the classroom. 
  • It is not for a teacher with only a little red wagon to haul home their “stuff.”
  • It is a place to meet fellow teachers and exchange ideas.
  • It is a place to recharge your professional battery!
  • It is a course for the teacher ready to make a change! 

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Tamara Badger of Lemont (far left, foreground) and other teachers learned to use hypsometers in calculating the number of logs contained in a standing tree during a woodlot session conducted by Penn State's School of Forest Resources.

 
If you are interested in:

  • Integrating fun-filled, hands-on agricultural projects into existing curriculum.

  • Receiving make-and-take projects and ready to use materials for the classroom.

  • Gaining a network of teachers and agricultural resource people locally and across the state.

  • Optional: Earning Act 48 hours and/or Penn State graduate credits.

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  • Attend the Workshop
  • Testimonials
  • Teacher of the Year

    The Outstanding Ag in the Classroom Teacher Award is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers. The purpose of this award is to recognize teachers who are doing an excellent job of teaching their class about agriculture and integrating agricultural concepts into the existing curriculum.

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    Michael Fink, chair of PFB’s YF&R Committee presents a check to Angela McCullough, Chester County, West Chester Area School District, Fern Hill Elementary 2nd Grade, who won the Outstanding Ag in the Classroom Teacher Award.

     

    Each year an outstanding teacher is chosen who has taken the information they've received at previous Ag In The Classroom Workshops and successfully integrated it into their curriculum. The winner must submit an application for the award and receives a cash award and a generous supply of resource materials for teaching Ag In The Classroom.

    Criteria and application

     
  • Lesson Plans

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    AITC teacher, Carlene Pearce-Houston, discusses the Equine Connection; a series of integrated lessons exploring some of the many ways to "put the horse in the lesson."

    Ag in the Classroom is a nationally developed program designed to help students in grades K-12 enhance their knowledge and understanding of the food and fiber system. Agriculture is a vital Pennsylvania industry whose value should be explored and promoted in our schools.

    Participants in this program are able to use their personal experiences to explain to their students how Pennsylvania's largest industry affects each of their lives every day.

    The following lessons have been developed by AITC workshop participants.     Lesson Plans

    Lesson Plan Template

    The following are additional lessons that have been developed to aid teachers in their Ag Education endeavors.  

  • Teacher Workshops
  • Teacher of the Year
  • Level II

     

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Ag in the Classroom

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