10/01/2023
Blank Park Zoo STEM event with Waukee APEX students. Corn corner and seed necklace opportunities. Shared resources with Blank Park Zoo visitors and staff.
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The mission of Agriculture in the Classroom is to increase agricultural literacy through K-12 education. Through creative lessons, hands-on projects, and programs that use technology, students can learn about agriculture's role in Iowa's history, where our food comes from, conservation, and how technology continues to impact agriculture in our state. Resources available through Dallas County Farm
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-Classroom programs. Dallas County Ag in the Classroom can bring real-world applications to your curriculum by helping to find guest speakers, or by teaching hands-on lessons that tie to Iowa Core Standards.
-FarmChat. Bring the farm to your classroom through a FarmChat program. Your students can talk to a farmer or agribusiness professional live and watch as they harvest corn, plant soybeans, feed livestock, or tour a business. The curriculum connections are endless!
-Events & outreach opportunities. Let Dallas County Ag in the Classroom have a presence at your school by inviting us to attend a teachers' meeting, STEM event, career fair, or any activity in which we can share agriculture-related information. We would be happy to introduce Ag in the Classroom, promote funding opportunities, or provide information on a specific agriculture topic or issue.
-Special projects. Dallas County Ag in the Classroom can work with your school to design field trips, grow crops, form partnerships with local agribusinesses, or design an agriculture theme-year at your school.
-Agriculture information and resources. Contact us if you are looking for resources, need a lesson for a particular topic/subject, or have a question about agriculture. We can also provide samples of corn, soybeans, and other agriculture products for your students to investigate. If you are interested in learning more about how you can incorporate agriculture into your classroom please feel free to contact us!
09/22/2023
ISU field trip. Tour of horse and beef farms. A great morning!
09/14/2023
ADM TigerFest Homecoming activity
09/07/2023
On Thursday October 26th we will be hosting Ag in Action – Learning with Pigs FarmChat as a part of our pork month celebration!
Although it is not October yet, this month we will be looking at different topics in the pork industry to get ready for everything pig-citing coming up!
Registration link in the comments!
08/29/2023
I spent Monday on a tour of central Iowa farms sponsored by ISU. I enjoyed learning about new things in the area and networking with other people. Fun day! Sites were in Prole, St. Charles, Winterset and Boone.
08/22/2023
Did you know that all Ford Motor vehicles use soybeans in the foam that make up the car seats in every vehicle since 2008?
This is a fantastic book. I have a copy of it and would love to let someone borrow it.
Celebrate Soybean Month in Iowa by entering to win a "Full of Beans: Henry Ford Grows a Car" book and lesson plan pack for your elementary classroom.
08/22/2023
Summer 2023 pictures. Can't wait to start a great school year this year!!
07/12/2023
Dallas County Fair Farm Bureau breakfast.
07/05/2023
Getting ready for the Dallas County Fair!
06/28/2023
National Ag in the classroom conference pictures. More to come.
06/25/2023
Waukee Community School District picnic and play. Great program.
06/16/2023
Teacher workshop pics
01/20/2023
The week has been busy. Many hats of an Iowa farmer lesson. Learning on a call with an agronomist from ISU, collaborative with Iowa Corn and an advisory council with a Career Technical group from Van Meter Schools.
01/17/2023
Did you know? Reading to children and having books in the home is one of the strongest predictors of school success. Children who read and listen to books hear a greater variety of words – up to 50% more – leading to a better vocabulary than those who watch media.
IALF, in partnership with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, and Iowa 4-H are partnering together to Read Across Iowa throughout March. The month-long celebrations bring the joys of reading to students of all ages. As part of the event, we are offering 1,000 FREE kits which will include several books and resources for teachers and volunteers to take into the classroom.
Learn more and sign up on our website. http://ow.ly/Tm9250MsPaH
01/11/2023
This is a great program for students across Iowa. Teachers and educators of all kinds can request a kit of books for this March event. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Get ready to read! Read Across Iowa kit requests open on January 17! Check out the IALF website for more information, lessons, and activity ideas!
01/03/2023
Here is the YouTube link to the Reindeer Farm Chat from Minnesota Ag in the Classroom. It was a fun and educational experience!!
RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY 12/19 at 1PM due to weather.Join us for a virtual field trip to Crystal Collection Reindeer in Lake Crystal, MN. Bev Herda, Daryl and...
01/02/2023
Virtual Reindeer farm chat in December. Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom did a great job!
12/22/2022
Our PK-5 students had the opportunity to Zoom with a reindeer farm in Crystal Farms, Minnesota. This is the farm that Santa visits regularly for reindeer recruits! Our farm ambassadors taught our students all about reindeer with many interesting facts!
12/19/2022
Congrats Cindy Snell on this great award. Love working with her and the Waukee APEX students. This year they have done Meals to the Field food delivery. We have also worked together at the Blank Park Zoo STEM evening, the Waukee Public Library Ag morning, and I was able to participate in the Waukee APEX Showcase last week. Can't wait to continue to collaborating with one of the best!!
Join IALF in congratulating Cindy Snell on receiving the 2022 Iowa Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award! Cindy exemplified the importance in teaching about agriculture over various categories.
12/19/2022
Van Meter 2nd grade classes are using nearly all of their senses in learning about different types of evergreen trees. Thanks to Howell Tree Farm for the great branches to discover and learn about these trees. Ag learning in Dallas County!
12/16/2022
Waukee APEX Showcase. Seed germination necklaces and lots of great conversations.
12/15/2022
Looking forward to being a part of the Waukee APEX Showcase tonight. This is our contribution to tonight's raffle.
12/12/2022
New date and time for the Virtual Field Trip at the Reindeer Farm in MN. Monday Dec. 19th at 1:00. You can still register for this opportunity. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please share that tomorrow's virtual field trip has been rescheduled due to weather and will now take place on Monday, 12/19 at 1pm. Teachers who already registered have been notified. We will still use the same Zoom link so no need to register if you already have! If you haven't registered, you still have time to join us!
With the change to the afternoon, some of you may not be able to join us so please know the recording will be available on our YouTube channel directly after the live event!
12/08/2022
Perry Elementary School 2nd graders. Looking at different samples of branches from evergreen trees donated by Hill Tree Farm near Minburn.
11/30/2022
Farming then and now. First grade classrooms in Woodward Granger. Thanks to Van Wall in Perry and Central Iowa Tractor Club 🚜 for participating!
11/20/2022
Conference for Iowa Ag in the Classroom. Organized by Iowa Ag literacy Foundation. Great day of learning.
11/16/2022
Many hats of a farmer. Thanks so much for the great day Carla Wood and Perry Middle School !
11/12/2022
Waukee APEX students at the Waukee Public Library. Thanks to Cindy Snell from Waukee Schools and the Waukee Public Library for the opportunity to share with families.
11/09/2022
West Central Valley 4th graders and FFA student leaders. Lesson about corn and lots of it's uses.
10/25/2022
Taste testing 🍎 🍏. We talked about different types of apples, read the My Family Farm Apple book and connected their classroom to the 3 F's of agriculture. Great learning opportunities this fall in Dallas County!
10/17/2022
Perry Middle school combine chat. Love the opportunity to share harvest season with Dallas County students.
10/12/2022
Meals to the field. Thanks to all the schools that helped with this event. Your decorated bags and note cards were a hit!
09/29/2022
Helping Waukee APEX students at the Blank Park Zoo tonight.
09/26/2022
Perry Middle School 6th graders. Thank you for your contributions to the Meals to the Field next month.
09/20/2022
Favorite pizza?? What's yours?
On September 20th, recognizes the most popular pizza ever created! The day celebrates the pizza enjoyed by young and old alike. 🍕
Many of the students that we visit have no idea that the pepperoni on their pizza is pork, which comes from a pig. It's always a delight to watch them make that connection after one of our lessons.
09/07/2022
The Very Hungry Iowa Caterpillar lesson in TK class in Van Meter today. Kids learned about three kinds of corn and asked lots of good questions. Thanks for the opportunity to come into your classroom!
08/31/2022
Wills Family Orchard and Brewer Family Meats. Fantastic stops on a day of agriculture tour in Central Iowa.
08/21/2022
Helped Iowa Ag Literacy Foundation at the STEM festival at the Iowa State Fair. Compared two kinds of packing peanuts and created a map of 5 kinds of fair food. What's your favorite? Pork chop, turkey leg, corn dog, ice cream or cookies?
08/16/2022
Barn Buddies program swag for 4-Hers giving information to people visiting the Dallas County Fair in July. First year doing this outreach.
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Baby Chicks Livestream
Bring some cheer to your day by watching the chicks, who are now 6-7 days old! Can you see the grown-up feathers starting to appear at the ends of their wings? They are getting bigger every day!
Chick Hatching Continued
We had a technical hiccup last night and the streaming stopped. So sorry about that! Two of Mr. Crow's class chicks hatched during the night. The egg in the front center has pipped and will be hatching sometime today! We'll livestream for awhile and see if we can catch it!
Chick #3 Hatching!
The third chick is about to hatch!
Chick Hatching
The egg opposite the chick is getting closer to hatching!
Day 20 Chick Hatching Continued
Several more eggs have pipped!
Chick Hatching Day 20 - Hatching Has Begun!
Can you see the little hole in the closest egg?! It's day 20, and the eggs will be hatching soon. One already started pipping tonight! What is pipping, you ask? Pipping is when the chick begins to break through the inner membrane and the shell. Soon you'll be able to see a small hole with the chick's tiny egg-tooth pointing through! Some chicks fully hatch within an hour of pipping, but others can take up to 24 hours with many periods of rest. So don't worry if they are taking awhile. It's a long and natural process. When the chicks emerge from their egg, they will be wet and pretty clumsy. They stay in the incubator until they are completely dry and fluffy. Once that happens, we will move the chicks to their new home.
Chick Hatching Day 19
It's day 19! Watch as chicken eggs are incubated until day 21 when they hatch! Brought to you by Story and Polk County Agriculture in the Classroom programs. We will livestream for a little while each night until they begin hatching. Then we will livestream and post videos more often. The livestreams will be posted on our page for you to view anytime.
Egg Incubation Lesson
Curious about what's going on inside the eggs we're incubating? Check out this lesson giving you all the details! Sources referenced in the lesson: American Egg Board - https://www.aeb.org/eggs-in-schools/classroom and National Ag in the Classroom egg lessons - https://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/matrix/search_result.cfm Be sure to check back with us every Monday through Thursday for a new lesson on an ag topic given by a Polk, Story, or Boone County Ag in the Classroom educator. Every lesson will provide you with great information and many will include fun, easy activities you can complete at home with your kids or students via distance learning.
Chick Hatching Day 18
Watch as chicken eggs are incubated until day 21 when they hatch! Brought to you by Story and Polk County Agriculture in the Classroom programs.
That a wrap with 150+ 2nd graders from Grant Ragan Elementary. What a beautiful day we had for it! A huge thank you for all of Janet’s help today!!
Here is video 2 of the chicks hatching!!
Hatch Day! Here are two videos of the little chick hatching. This sight is amazing to the young students as they watch this chick hatch and begin it’s life. Not everyone gets to see things like this first hand- that what amazing opportunity!
2018 Sweet 🌽 Festival!! Why not stop and 🏁 a 🐷 to when a balloon animal! Or come and play Minute to Win it! You have to stick lipstick with tongues in a minute, among other games! On your mark! Get Set! Go!!
Please come see us at the Sweet Corn Festival..
Saturday, we kicked off the morning at the Dallas County Toddler Fest! Toddlers and their parents from across the county had the opportunity to visit the Dallas County Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom booth where we did pig races and learned fun facts about Iowa pigs! Just for visiting us, the kiddos received pig 🐷 hats and awesome beads with pig facts on them! Thank you to all who attended and helped!!
( Little sample of our tour. Here an fun example video talking to the students about there swine farrowing barn. ) One of our Waukee elementary 4th graders groups about 130 students took a field trip to ISU to learn about the dairy farm, swine farm, sheep farm and compost pile and what they all do at each location. Dallas County teachers or schools if this something you be interested in doing and it's all FREE !!!!!! We have fun and exciting field trips , FarmChats, and literature that we can offer to you. We are more then happy to talk to your students about agricultural ,sheep, swine and much much more .....contact me Jessica Peters Your Dallas County Farm Bureau Ag In the Classroom Coordinator at C:641.757.1651 [email protected]
(More Photos and Video) Short little video. They are showing the students how they turn the compost pile. The students get to smell the fresh dirty. After this process it will be shipped out to their gardens and landscaping areas around the Isu campus. One of our Waukee elementary 4th graders groups about 130 students took a field trip to ISU to learn about the dairy farm, swine farm, sheep farm and compost pile and what they all do at each location. Dallas County teachers or schools if this something you be interested in doing and it's all FREE !!!!!! We have fun and exciting field trips , FarmChats, and literature that we can offer to you. We are more then happy to talk to your students about agricultural ,sheep, swine and much much more .....contact me Jessica Peters your Dallas County Farm Bureau Ag In the Classroom Coordinator at C:641.757.1651 [email protected]
This book is a great read for kids of all ages!
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We kicked off Read Across Iowa… Farm to Table in our school library on Tuesday.
This program was brought to us from the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation and Jamie Champion from Dallas County Agriculture in the Classroom Central Iowa Agriculture in the Classroom Iowa Farm Bureau.
It was a fun day for the kids as they celebrated farming in Iowa. We will celebrate all month long.
This program was brought to us from the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation and Jamie Champion from Dallas County Agriculture in the Classroom Central Iowa Agriculture in the Classroom Iowa Farm Bureau.
It was a fun day for the kids as they celebrated farming in Iowa. We will celebrate all month long.
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