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 welcome agriculture into their reading programs Adding an activity to a story helps reading retention by 75-90%.
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
Tops & Bottoms Moral Values Honesty Make a vegetable garden book Opposites Mural
Growing Vegetable Soup Seed Germination Planting Vegetables Plant an outdoor garden Match names to vegetables Counting Recipe for vegetable soup
Hello, Biscuit! Treasury Gourmet dog biscuits Beefy dog biscuit recipe
Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady Saying no to strangers Ice Cream Chemistry
All About Seeds Water Soil Sunshine Watching the process from seed to plant
Extra Cheese, Please! How cheese is made Process from cow to pizza Food Pyramid-- Dairy
Germs Make Me Sick! Learn about spread of illness Germs and bacteria How to was your hands
SHEEP Wool Milk Meat Wool (or cotton ball) Sheep
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear Mouse protects a strawberry for himself Make paper strawberries Imagination Sharing
The Giving Tree Tree providing for a boy Plant a tree Making apple butter Make a tree
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type Relating Agriculture to technology Hand Puppets Where food comes from Purple cow dessert
Pumpkin, Pumpkin All about pumpkins Paper plate pumpkin Gut a pumpkin Taste pumpkin seeds Pumpkin seed letters
Pig Gets Stuck Pig eats too much and gets stuck Number pig Picture of farm and animals Paper bag puppet
Welcome to Merriweather Farm Farm equipment comes to life Seeds & gestation Draw favorite character and write about it
Surprise Garden Elements and patience Make a hat Different types of growth Fruit Vegetables
Too Many Pumpkins Pumpkins fall off a truck in her yard Make pumpkin pie Pumpkin face Sink or float
Millie Waits for the Mail Making a present Letters Setting the moo-oo-ood Colorful cows
Hooray for Dairy Farming! Sank the boat How now brown cow Til the cows come home Graph favorite dairy foods
Giggle, Giggle, Quack Paper plate duck Writing Colorful quilt
Life on a Pig Farm Pig mask Paper plate pig
The Pumpkin Book Stuffed pumpkin Paint a pumpkin Carve a pumpkin Make your own pumpkin book
What s for Lunch? Corn Decorate picture with corn kernels Corn pictures Place cards
Oh Say can you Seed? Bag planting Journals Discuss and write about book
The Milk Makers Word search Color of foods Cow puppet
Diary of a Worm Macaroni Necklaces Gummy worm stretch Worm watch Worm condo
GOATS Goat puppet Maze Goat toilet paper roll craft
Pigs Pig puppet Pork for dinner
Charlie needs a Cloak Sheep puppet Puzzle
If It Weren t for Farmers Draw a picture Vocabulary Veggie games
Pig and Crow Life cycle of chicken Let s make a deal game
Mrs. Wishy Washy s Farm Order of Events Food Write short stories
How a Seed Grows Plant growth chart
Lily s Garden Potato stamp Sunflower seeds for birds Food pyramid vegetables and fruits
Fantastic Farm Machines Draw a picture Label farm machines Write about the story
Century Farm Century farm sign Compare 100 to today
Cows, Cats, and Kids Chart animals that the class has Make a bar graph
Daddy Played Music for the Cows Make an instrument
CORN Ear of corn
Jack s Garden Word Search Plant seeds
The Rusty, Trusty Tractor Make a tractor Compare tractor
On The Farm Matching to animals Draw a tractor Color a tractor
Cotton Now & Then Cotton kit Draw a picture
Pumpkin Circle Pumpkin pats Coloring sheet Decorate a pumpkin
TOMATOES Cut a tomato Taste Look at the seeds
The Stubborn Pumpkin Plant pumpkin seeds Roast pumpkin seeds
Green Eggs and Ham Eat green eggs and ham Discuss what animals produce eggs and ham
Dooby Dooby Moo Make stick puppets