Wherever Corn Grows...
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Chapter Activity That Is a Trick and a Treat
What looks like regular ground beef labeled as roadkill, including meat trays from the local grocery store and plastic rap, is actually rice crispy treats shaped like hamburger patties with some red food coloring to make them all too real.
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Design Your Own Desktop Greenhouse Activity
Teachers are always look for another way to reinforce principles covered in class. To understand how a greenhouse works, students must understand the critical factors that go into play to make a greenhouse function. The problem is that this topic is super boring to learn. -
How to Get the Most Out of Your CDE Practices
Do you want to master one CDE and go for the trip to Indy? Or do you just make sure your kids have a positive experience at the contest and come out eager for more? Either way, the process is the same. -
Mini Jacket Chapter Activity for Recruiting
For teachers who always need another idea for their students here's a quick post on simple recruiting tool for your officers or an activity for your students. -
Land Judging Activity for Topsoil Evaluation
Advisors are always looking for different ways to help students understand land judging and soil science. This example demonstrates the variability of types of topsoil where students can see first hand how each can differ from the others. -
Meat Preparation Activity for Agriculture Students
What you teach in the classroom has a much greater impact on your students when they have a chance to put it into practice with not only an hands-on lab. Take the time to introduce your students to the world of cooking meat and you'll have them hooked for life. -
Apple Related Labs for Food Science
Whether you have extra after your fruit sale or you are in apple country, having extra apples provides a great opportunity to teach food science skills for high school students.
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Managing Student Behavior: Where's Your High Water Mark?
When I was studying Ag education one of the first topics that my professor regularly discussed managing student personalities. We all allow students to express themselves, but when we've had... -
Not All Gifts are For the Officers
Luckily, FFA advisors aren't the only ones thinking about gifts for the Spring Banquet. For a first year program, the students outdid themselves with a very unique and thoughtful gift.... -
Unique Plant Display for Spring Plant Sale
Ag teachers don't have to like that they must compete with the big box stores for your plant sale? We all hear what their prices are "so much lower". And... -
Meats Judging Activity and Bulletin Board
In a rut with teaching meats? PowerPoints getting a bit dry and your students over you talking and them staring at you? Get them up, moving, and collaborating. Why create... -
Greenhouse Plant Babysitting and 9 Ways to Say No by Saying Yes
Sometimes, when the right person comes along and they are connected well enough, you can not in your right mind refuse to babysit their little darling plant. So arm yourself with these helpful hints to convince them to say No for you.
