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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 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