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1 Ag Literacy Herbert Parks Tennessee Foundation for Ag in the Classroom National AITC Conference Fort Lauderdale, FL June 2011

2 Ag Literacy Pre-K through 2 nd 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%.

3 I Teach 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

4 Tops & Bottoms Moral Values Honesty Make a vegetable garden book Opposites Mural

5 Growing Vegetable Soup Seed Germination Planting Vegetables Plant an outdoor garden Match names to vegetables Counting Recipe for vegetable soup

6 Hello, Biscuit! Treasury Gourmet dog biscuits Beefy dog biscuit recipe

7 Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady Saying no to strangers Ice Cream Chemistry

8 All About Seeds Water Soil Sunshine Watching the process from seed to plant

9 Extra Cheese, Please! How cheese is made Process from cow to pizza Food Pyramid-- Dairy

10 Germs Make Me Sick! Learn about spread of illness Germs and bacteria How to was your hands

11 SHEEP Wool Milk Meat Wool (or cotton ball) Sheep

12 The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear Mouse protects a strawberry for himself Make paper strawberries Imagination Sharing

13 The Giving Tree Tree providing for a boy Plant a tree Making apple butter Make a tree

14 Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type Relating Agriculture to technology Hand Puppets Where food comes from Purple cow dessert

15 Pumpkin, Pumpkin All about pumpkins Paper plate pumpkin Gut a pumpkin Taste pumpkin seeds Pumpkin seed letters

16 Pig Gets Stuck Pig eats too much and gets stuck Number pig Picture of farm and animals Paper bag puppet

17 Welcome to Merriweather Farm Farm equipment comes to life Seeds & gestation Draw favorite character and write about it

18 Surprise Garden Elements and patience Make a hat Different types of growth Fruit Vegetables

19 Too Many Pumpkins Pumpkins fall off a truck in her yard Make pumpkin pie Pumpkin face Sink or float

20 Millie Waits for the Mail Making a present Letters Setting the moo-oo-ood Colorful cows

21 Hooray for Dairy Farming! Sank the boat How now brown cow Til the cows come home Graph favorite dairy foods

22 Giggle, Giggle, Quack Paper plate duck Writing Colorful quilt

23 Life on a Pig Farm Pig mask Paper plate pig

24 The Pumpkin Book Stuffed pumpkin Paint a pumpkin Carve a pumpkin Make your own pumpkin book

25 What s for Lunch? Corn Decorate picture with corn kernels Corn pictures Place cards

26 Oh Say can you Seed? Bag planting Journals Discuss and write about book

27 The Milk Makers Word search Color of foods Cow puppet

28 Diary of a Worm Macaroni Necklaces Gummy worm stretch Worm watch Worm condo

29 GOATS Goat puppet Maze Goat toilet paper roll craft

30 Pigs Pig puppet Pork for dinner

31 Charlie needs a Cloak Sheep puppet Puzzle

32 If It Weren t for Farmers Draw a picture Vocabulary Veggie games

33 Pig and Crow Life cycle of chicken Let s make a deal game

34 Mrs. Wishy Washy s Farm Order of Events Food Write short stories

35 How a Seed Grows Plant growth chart

36 Lily s Garden Potato stamp Sunflower seeds for birds Food pyramid vegetables and fruits

37 Fantastic Farm Machines Draw a picture Label farm machines Write about the story

38 Century Farm Century farm sign Compare 100 to today

39 Cows, Cats, and Kids Chart animals that the class has Make a bar graph

40 Daddy Played Music for the Cows Make an instrument

41 CORN Ear of corn

42 Jack s Garden Word Search Plant seeds

43 The Rusty, Trusty Tractor Make a tractor Compare tractor

44 On The Farm Matching to animals Draw a tractor Color a tractor

45 Cotton Now & Then Cotton kit Draw a picture

46 Pumpkin Circle Pumpkin pats Coloring sheet Decorate a pumpkin

47 TOMATOES Cut a tomato Taste Look at the seeds

48 The Stubborn Pumpkin Plant pumpkin seeds Roast pumpkin seeds

49 Green Eggs and Ham Eat green eggs and ham Discuss what animals produce eggs and ham

50 Dooby Dooby Moo Make stick puppets

4 Good morning! PLE PLE FREE SAM FREE SAM

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