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What's
New in Ag Literacy
Food
for Thought Placemat Design Contest
Kindergarten through 5th grade
teachers—challenge your students to illustrate their
understanding of agriculture!
What better way to portray the importance of ag in our
everyday lives than on a placemat.
Each year, over a dozen restaurants across
DeKalb
County
use placemats featuring the first-place winning designs from
each of the six grade levels involved in this contest.
So, as members of our community enjoy their food, they
are reminded of the industry that made that meal possible!
Placemat contest Teacher
Survey. (Link to Word form.)
2008
Summer Agriculture Institute
Teaching about Agriculture and the Environment
Earn graduate credit and gather new experiences,
information, and resources to make learning relevant to your
students’ lives. Participate
in the 2008 Summer Ag Institute for teachers!
This course is designed to help K-8 educators infuse
farm & food concepts into the curriculum while meeting IL
Learning Standards. If
you or your students eat or wear clothes, you will find this
class appropriate for your teaching and your life.
Click here for more information.
Fill out an application form here.
Teacher
Resource Guide (updated and available
for download.)
The DeKalb County Farm Bureau has a variety of
educational materials available for loan to area teachers.
These items include cross-curricular thematic kits, videos, and
lesson/activity guides. For a complete listing and extensive
descriptions, download the Teacher Resource Guide.
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New
Look, New Name!
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To better reflect our efforts to educate
people of all ages about the importance of agriculture,
we’ve changed our logo and the name of our overall
program.
Instead of DeKalb County Farm Bureau “Ag in the
Classroom”, you’ll now know our program as “Agricultural
Literacy.” This
new name encompasses all our educational efforts: from
the Summer Ag Institute and workshops for teachers to
the Ag in the Classroom Presentations and the Food for
Thought Placemat Design Contest. |
Bring mAGic
into your classroom with
Multidisciplinary AGricultural Integrated Curriculum
kits
Abracadabra! Alohomora!
Open the doors… of active discovery and watch your
students explore the depths of the agriculture industry.
Curriculum in each mAGic
kit is multidisciplinary, all inclusive, and designed to
provide hands-on experiences for your students. Lessons
address Illinois Learning Standards in Math, Science, English
Language Arts, and Social Studies.
Kits available include Plants, Soil, Dairy, Insects,
and Poultry. See page
26 of the Teacher Resource Guide for more details.
New
Literacy Kits Created
Over two dozen thematic Literacy Kits have been created to
save teachers time searching for resources!
Each kit contains books and other resources related to
the theme. Literacy
Kit titles include Apples, Candy & Chocolate, Corn,
Farming: Then & Now, Farm Machinery, and many more. See pages 22 - 26 of the Teacher Resource Guide for additional
information.
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