3 Resources for Teaching Agriculture
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This is CT's agricultural experiment station website. It contains lots of fact sheets and current data on issues that agriculture is confronting today. By connecting the classroom teaching with current issues it helps students to contextualize what they are studying and gives the teacher relevant data to use in lesson plans. Focusing on current issues is essential to having students develop competency in agriculture. "Good teachers" also need to stay up to date on what is happening in their content area.
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The CT Association of Agriculture Educators has a website to link all of CT's Ag centers. It also includes links to other Ag websites, and creates an online community for Ag educators to learn from each other. This is a great resource for an Ag teacher to share ideas with other Ag teachers and connect to what other students are doing in their Ag classes. The Agricultural schools hold competitions to engage and challenge students in their area of focus. This website helps coordinate these efforts which allow students to gain a greater understanding of state wide agriculture.
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Discovery news has some great videos that could be used to foster discussions or explorations on what the future of Agriculture is or how it differs between countries. Video clips offer students a different style of teaching and help keep students engaged in the subject matter. It may be a great way to begin a class and get the students immersed in the subject or a way to end the class to leave students with a broader application of the day's lesson plans.
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