Over $10,000 given to educators!
Rachel Olmanson, Art Teacher at St. Michael Catholic School in Prior Lake, used Ag Literacy Grant funds to purchase egg incubators and integrate the life cycle of chickens into many subjects while recording and documenting the hatching process in her art classes and classes of several of her teaching colleagues.
The Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom (MAITC) Foundation proudly offers an agricultural literacy grant program. Cash awards (maximum of $1000) are offered to encourage educators to integrate agriculture into their classroom and curriculum. FFA, 4-H and other non-formal educational groups are also encouraged to seek funds to host ag literacy events and activities. Congratulation to the 2016 Grant Winners!
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Red River Valley Fair Association, Moorhead, MN - Grant Use: Technology for a kiosk at the county Ag Education Center
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Cedar
Park Elementary STEM School, Apple Valley, MN - Grant Use: Create a Ag Resource Center and greenhouse supplies
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Christ
the King Catholic School, Browerville, MN - Grant Use: Create raised planting beds
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Cottonwood
County 4-H, Windom, MN - Grant Use: Accurate agriculture books
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Greenvale
Park Elementary, Northfield, MN- Grant Use:Transportation for field trip to a dairy farm
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Jackson
County Central FFA, Jackson, MN - Grant Use:Garden start-up supplies including fencing, garden tools, soil, plants and seeds
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Kingsland FFA, Spring Valley, MN - Grant Use: Supplies for Urban Ag Day at Rochester Elementary School
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Linwood
Monroe Arts Plus, St. Paul, MN - Grant Use: Accurate agriculture books, student observation tools such as magnifying glasses
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Pierz
Healy High School and FFA, Pierz, MN - Grant Use:Farm Tour Day that will allow students to tour four local farms
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Pine
Harbor Christian Academy, Hastings, MN - Grant Use: Seeds, plants, worm box, compost bin, and MAITC book bundles
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Pipestone
Area FFA, Pipestone, MN - Grant Use: Activities for Ag Literacy Barn at the county fair
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Redwood
Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, MN - Grant Use: Materials for agricultural themed early literacy center
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Sleepy
Eye FFA, Sleepy Eye, MN - Grant Use: Livestock banners for display at county fair, animal carnival and other public events
 Mr. Dan Gruhlke
Kindergarten Teacher
Pinewood Elementary School, Monticello, MN
Mr. Gruhlke has worked with young children, primarily as a kindergarten teacher, for over twenty-five years and has been a long-time advocate for agricultural literacy.
Why do you believe
it is important for our teachers and students to be agriculturally literate? Let’s help shape and reconnect the future by
educating the young about their food source through presentation and
experience. This is my drumbeat of the importance of teaching agricultural
literacy from the ground up.
What impact has
integrating agriculture in your curriculum had on you and your students? What has most struck me throughout the years is
how awed students are at growth. It strikes them at their roots. It readies
them to absorb greater truths of growth through interdisciplinary integration
of academia, and it’s done with smiles and intrigue. Isn’t that the glory and
effervescence of education?
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The CHS Foundation is sponsoring 45 teachers from across the nation to
attend the National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference June 20-24,
2016 in Phoenix, AZ. Engaging workshops, tours, keynote speakers and
networking events will provide exceptional learning opportunities for
these teachers to increase their comfort level in agriculture and also
integrate agricultural content into Science, Social
Studies, Language Arts, Math and Health/Nutrition education. Applications are due February 29, 2016.
2013 CHS Scholarship Winners
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Check out this free quarterly e-zone designed for science and technology teachers! http://agclassroom.org/agroworld/index.htm
America's Heartland is a weekly public television series that celebrates agriculture. Explore hundreds of episodes that feature the people and
processes that feeds, fuels and clothes
consumers here and around the world. http://www.americasheartland.org/
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Congratulations to Kristen Gustafson
for being the
first person to respond with the correct
answer to our January trivia question. Kristen knew that Minnesota
ranks at the top of the U.S. in green pea production. Washington leads the
U.S. in green pea yield but Minnesota has the largest number of acres
planted and harvested. Both answers - 1st and 2nd - were accepted as
correct. The other top ten
responders were Mark Wackerfuss, Sara Britton, Neil Kruse, Mary Schmidt,
Eldanesta Saaijman, Gertrude Jensen, Chrissie Ten Eyck, Tracy
Bockbrader, and Joan Paggen.
February Trivia - The first person to email the correct answer for the question
below will win a hat and bag from the MN Ag Expo.
What is the scientific name (Genus and species) for field corn?
Email you answer to Sue Knott to be eligible for the prize!
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