Educator Spotlight:
Cheryl Burks McCarthy
Cheryl Burks McCarthy, Program Assistant for all areas at the Daviess County Extension Office, shares her knowledge on how she teaches the youth in her county about agriculture and the tools she uses from the Kentucky Agriculture and Environment in the Classroom.
Cheryl uses several of the KyAEC resources when visiting classrooms. Below are links to all of those resources.
Build a Show Pig-Students will learn, draw, describe, and count geometric shapes while they build a pig from instructions. This is a companion activity to the Kentucky Farms Feed Me Virtual Field Trip on pigs. This activity aligns with Kindergarten Common Core Math standards and can be used as a cutting assessment, but is fun at any age!
Kentucky Farms Feed Me Virtual Field Trip Series-This collection of videos, lessons, and activities takes students on a journey to several Kentucky farms and venues to learn how farmers and experts produce food and care for the domesticated animals that live in the Bluegrass.
Soybean Science-Students will develop an appreciation and understanding of the natural development of seeds, learn the anatomy and function of each seed part through a seed dissection, and classify seeds as monocots or dicots.
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture Recommended Book List
Kentucky Agriculture Commodity and Natural Resources Posters (PDF)
Links to the Winter Lunch and Learn Webinar Series
January 17 – Hosting School Tours on Your Farm: What must you know?
January 24 – Preschool Lessons
January 31 – Kindergarten Lessons
February 14 – 1st and 2nd Grade Lessons
February 21 – 3rd and 4th Grade Lessons
February 28 – 5th and 6th Grade Lessons
BONUS - Our favorite lessons in the Agriculture CTE Classroom
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Videos of Past Workshops
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Kentucky Farms Feed Me Virtual Field Trips and Curriculum
After watching the video, please contact us for additional materials that may be available to you. You can also check out the virtual field trip content.
Journey 2050 Curriculum and Game
Journey 2050 is a FREE agriculture education program that challenges participants to answer, “How will we sustainably feed nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050?” This is a wonderful resource for your middle or high school science, social studies, or agriculture classroom. View the webinar, then visit the site.
New Agriculture Teacher PD Workshop
Thanks to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund for sponsoring this workshop and the kits each teacher received. If you are a new agriculture teacher, please contact us so we can work to provide you a sponsored kit and access to our all of our resources.