Knox County Farm Bureau®
Ag in the Classroom
 
Ag Literacy Coordinator: Kathy Boydstun AGRICULTURAL LINKS
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Baordstun: Your Knox County Ag Literacy Coordinator
Kathy Boydstun, from rural Abingdon is the Knox County Ag Literacy Coordinator. kathy is in charge of coordinating and implementing all local ag literacy programs and efforts. She can help you incorporate agriculture into all your classroom subjects through lesson plans, materials, workshops, and special programs.  Please don't hesitate to contact Kathy for your ag literacy needs! Her office is located in the Knox County Farm Bureau, 180 S Soangetaha Road, Suite 101, Galesburg, and she can be reached at 309/342-2036 or ag_educator@knoxcfb.org
 

Why should you teach Ag?
Ag allows students to ponder, hypothesize, experiment & imagine about subjects from corn, soybeans & livestock to conservation, biotechnology & engineering.  Giving teachers like you the tools to drive these students to question, learn & grow.

Are you interested in 
FREE learning Kits?
The Knox County Farm Bureau houses several AgriScience
and AgriLearning Kits for elementary teachers to use 
throughout the year. These kits are available free of charge 
and all inclusive, containing the materials to conduct the 
many lesson plans contained within the kit. 

The AgriLearning Kits are science based kits with 
experiments that can be adapted to students K-8th grade. 
For example, teach your students about the process of 
making yogurt and the need for bacterial activity to do so 
with our Dairy Delights AgriScience Kit. The kit contains 
all the needed materials and ingredients, along with the 
lesson plan for the experiment. 

The AgriLearning Kits tend to be for younger students. 
These kits contain books, posters, and activities on 
specific subject areas. For example, learn about the ag 
through pizza. The Pondering Pizza AgriLearning Kit
contains many books and fun activities for teachers to teach kids about the many ingredients of pizza that come from agriculture! 

See the information below regarding the many AgriScience and AgriLearning Kits that our office has available for your classroom. Simply notify the Knox County Farm Bureau office to reserve one or any of the kits available. 

Plans are underway to develop additions to the AgriScience & the AgriLearning Kits for elementary teachers that reinforce reading & science standards. This program is making a difference! 

CONTACT
Kathy Boydstun
Knox County's 
Ag Literacy Coordinator
to see what she can do 
for your classroom needs.

Visit the Illinois Farm Bureau's AITC website at www.agintheclassroom.org to check out the ag cam, or get great AITC teaching materials, ideas, suggestions and links to other ag in the classroom websites!
We have 6 Agri-Learning Kits: (K-6th)
  • Eggsploring Poultry
  • Dairy Cow Capers: Exploring Dairy Farming
  • Getting to the Core: Apples & Orchards
  • Pondering Pizza: A slice of Ag
  • Pumpkin Patch: A Vine through Time
  • Unraveling Fibers: More than Just Clothes
Also Available:
  • Beef Kit
  • Pork Kit
  • Recycle Kit
We Also have 10 Agri-Science Kits!
  • Eggciting Experiments (K-8th)
  • Ag Renews our Planet (K-8th)
  • Insects (K-8th)
  • Probing our Soils (2nd-8th)
  • Protein Providers (K-8th)
  • Animals in Ag (4th-8th)
  • Dairy Delights (K-8th)
  • Growing Every Day (6th-8th)
  • Ag Measures Up (3rd-8th)
  • Rain or Shine (K-8th)

AG BAGS FOR YOUR USE

Ag Bags include a book and enough Ag Mags for use within your classroom. These, too, are available for your use. All you need to do is call or email and reserve an Ag Bag with our Ag Literacy Coordinator, Kathy Boydstun. The Ag Bags available include:
HORSES: Leah's Pony, by Elizabeth Friedrich; Animal Ag Mag #7, and Feed Sack instructions.
PUMPKINS: Too Many Pumpkins, by Linda White; Pumpkin Ag Mag #9.
SOYBEANS/GARDENS: Jack's Garden, by Henry Cole; Soybean Ag Mag #10, plus soybeans.
CORN: Corn Belt Harvest, by Raymond Bial; Corn Ag Mag #11.
APPLES: How Do Apples Grow?, by Betsy Maestro; Apple Ag Mag #12, Relaxable Apple Ball and Ag in the Classroom Pencil.
SHEEP: Hooray for Sheep Farming, by Bobbie Kalman; Sheep Ag Mag #13.
DAIRY: Hooray for Dairy Farming, by Bobbie Kalman; Dairy Ag Mag #14.
EGGS/CHICKENS: From Egg to Chicken, by Dr. Gerald Legg; Poultry Ag Mag #20.
FARM SAFETY: Teaming Up...A Farm Safety Walkabout for Kids, by Farm Safety 4 Just Kids; Farm Safety Ag Mag #15.
PIZZA: Hold the Anchovies! A Book about Pizza, by Shelley Rotner; Pizza Ag Mag #16
TECHNOLOGY: The Usborne Book of Tractors, by Caroline Young; Technology Ag Mag #21.
PORK: Welcome to the Farm, National Pork Producers Association; Pork Ag Mag #17.

Videos For Loan

AGRICULTURE- GENERAL
  • What is Agriculture? (K-2) 
  • Ag is Everyday
  • Connecting to Agriculture #1 (ages 10-16)
  • Connecting to Agriculture #2
  • Learning by Leaps: Agriculture & You!
  • Tractors, Combines & Things on the Grow
  • Big Tractors
  • Barnyard Animals
FARM SAFETY
  • Mowing Rules...Safety Rocks (5th-8th) 
  • Farm Safety, Farm Style
  • Ready for Safety
  • Kids Talk Farm Safety Stuff
  • Safety Matters in the Country
CORN
  • Captain Cornelius
  • Crazy About Corn CD-ROM#1 (with teacher packet)
  • Crazy About Corn CD-ROM#2 (with teacher packet)
WHEAT
  • Amazing Wheat (with teacher packet
 
TURKEY
  • Turkey Production in Iowa
PORK
  • A New Look at Pork (with teacher packet)
SOYBEAN
  • Soy Island CD-ROM 
      • DAIRY


    • Moo 2 You
    • Vrrroommm 2 Dairy Farming for Kids
    • Make Mine Milk
    • David on the Dairy Farm
    • The Art of Cheese Making
    • Cow's Digestive Tract
    BEEF
    • Raising Cattle (K-6) 
    • Digging for Data (6th-8th) (with teacher packet)
    CAREERS
    • Veterinary Med. (5th-8th)
    • Chosen Fields & CD-ROM #1 (ages 10-16)
    • Chosen Fields & CD-ROM #2
    AG MAGS LIST ...
    Contact the Knox County Farm Bureau office to reserve copies for your class today at 309-342-2036
    #10 Imagine a Bean...
     #11 The Corn Curl 500
     #13 Simply Sheep-ish
     #14 Delightful Dairy Moos    		 #15 Safety Sleuths
    #16 Pizza
    #17 Pig-out On Pork
    #18 Athletic Strength Begins
    on the Farm
    #19 Chosen Fields    		 #20 Crakin' Up
    #21 Technology
    #22 Diggin' In
    Celebrate Earth Day
    March Along with Illinois Ag

     
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