Ag in the Classroom
Agricultural Workshops
Through field trips, tours and hands-on workshops, interactive training for K-12 grade teachers demonstrates how to infuse agricultural concepts into existing curriculum and meet Maryland State Standards. Teachers receive numerous resource materials and ready to use lessons in the workshops. Students receive direct agricultural training when the mobile science labs visit schools across the state.
2010 National Ag in the Classroom Conference
Maryland is hosting the 2010 National Ag in the Classroom Conference in Baltimore June 24-26, 2010. Click here for more information or visit www.aitc2010.com to register. The Maryland Ag in the Classroom workshop will return in June 2011.
2009 AITC Workshop a huge success!
Fifty teachers from 14 counties and Baltimore City attended the 20th Ag in the Classroom summer workshop held in Westminster. Teachers were excited to learn about agriculture first hand as they toured Dell’s Dairy Farm, Sauder’s Egg Plant Packing Plant, Utz Potato Chip Factory and Baugher’s Orchard and Bakery.
The Maryland Geographic Alliance, in partnership with MAEF, shared lessons such as Pioneer Farming , Seasons on a Farm, Producing the Produce and Maryland Farming Long Ago . Integrated into the program was a technology component titled Combining Technology, Agriculture and Geography in which teachers created their own lesson from a huge selection of agricultural pictures in the form of a power point presentation. These presentations reflected some of the innovative ways teachers will be sharing the importance of agriculture with their students!
Also new to the program this year was a presentation by Kitty Lentz and John Ellingsworth from the McCormick & Company Flavor Division called Making Food Taste Great . Not only did this session smell divine, but the taste excursion and history lesson on vanilla and cinnamon helped teachers gain a respect for the labor intensive agricultural process involved in getting these products from the growing fields to the bottle.
This was a wonderful week with wonderful teachers! The teachers walked away with many resources that will enable them to share the impact agriculture has with students across Maryland.
A big thank you to all of the presenters and organizations that made this workshop a huge success.
