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ADDING TO AGRICULTURE
ACADEMIC INTEGRATION IN THE AGRICULTURE CLASSROOM AMANDA MULLINS I N D I A N A A S S O C I A T I O N O F A G R I C U L T U R E E D U C A T O R S V I C E P R E S I D E N T A G R I C U L T U R E T E A C H E R / F F A A D V I S O R B E N T O N C E N T R A L H I G H S C H O O L O X F O R D , I N D I A N A
Welcome to Exploring Agriculture 7 th Grade
The national record for milk production is 59,300 pounds of milk in a one-year period. WOW! Most good dairy cows will produce 20,000 pounds of milk in one year. Using this information, solve the following problems.
1.) Calculate the pounds of milk produced per day for the national record cow.
2.) Calculate the pounds of milk produced in one week for the national record cow.
Tuesday, November 27 th , 2012 Fertilization: the union of sperm and egg cells to reproduce in living organisms The fertilization of an egg cell must occur in females animals for them to give birth to babies.
Write your own sentence using the word fertilization in your word of the day packet.
ADDING TO AGRICULTURE
ACADEMIC INTEGRATION IN THE AGRICULTURE CLASSROOM AMANDA MULLINS I N D I A N A A S S O C I A T I O N O F A G R I C U L T U R E E D U C A T O R S V I C E P R E S I D E N T A G R I C U L T U R E T E A C H E R / F F A A D V I S O R B E N T O N C E N T R A L H I G H S C H O O L O X F O R D , I N D I A N A
SESSION OBJECTIVES
Understand what academic integration is intended to do Why we should be doing it in our classrooms Recall the benefits of academic integration Understand the different important areas of integration Methods of implementing these practices Sample Activities for middle and high school courses Resources to use for implementing Sharing of additional ideas and activities
Why don’t we integrate academics?
Many agricultural educators fail to integrate core-subject concepts into their classrooms. Current research addresses the perceptions of agricultural educators regarding core-subject integration, but little research notes the barriers that are identified in these studies or the actions needed by agricultural educators to overcome those barriers.
Top Reasons Why Not
Lack of professional development Uncomfortable with subject matter Lack of financial resources or facilities Lack of time to prepare or add to current work load. Unwilling to progress with changes in education.
TIME…..TIME….TIME…TIME
How can we change the why nots?
Provide more professional development sessions like today.
Do more lesson and idea sharing amongst our fellow agriculture educators as well as our co workers who teach the core academic classes Improvise, use what we have USE FREE STUFF Write grants and work with community groups for support
Why is This a Promising Practice
Check out the following website for published articles.
Suggested Articles -Academics in CTE Programs: Fully Preparing Students for Their Next Step
-Promote More Powerful Learning -Integrating CTE and Academics: One Student’s Account -Integrating CTE and Academics: One Teacher’s Account
Why Is This a Promising Practice
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Studies have shown that students understand and retain knowledge best when they have applied it in a practical, relevant setting (Daggett, 2005). According to Daggett (2005), at the high school level, career and technical education programs provide the most effective learning opportunities. “Not only are students applying skills and knowledge to real-world situations in their CTE programs, but also they are drawing on knowledge learned in their core subjects. Students who participate in CTE programs should be well prepared for state exams because the academics they learn are used in Quadrants B and D. The key is to tie those academics to core content areas. In this respect, CTE teachers can be a great help to language arts, math, and science teachers by reinforcing the skills and concepts that students learn in those subjects.” Daggett, W. R. (2005). Achieving Academic Excellence through Rigor and Relevance. Paper published on the International Center for Leadership in Education website. Accessed July 26, 2006 at http://www.daggett.com/pdf/Academic_Excellence.pdf
Why Integration?
More highly educated workforce contributes to a healthy economy More skills = increased adaptability as society changes.
Prevention of curriculum fragmentation · Stimulates higher levels of integrated thinking · Able to view complex issues from a broader perspective · Time savings by overlapping academic and vocational content · Integration is consistent with brain research and learning theory · Increased graduation requirements
“I CHOOSE C”
Do we want our students to end up like this…… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2mRM4i6tY
HAVE YOU BEEN HEARING THESE?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOcYfr ZJWi8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
What do all of these mean to agriculture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IGD9oLof ks&feature=youtube_gdata_player
What is academic integration?
Implementing critical thinking skills into your curriculum on a regular basis.
* Mathematics skills *Literacy skills *Writing skills *Problem Solving *Communication Skills
MATHEMATICS SKILLS
Story/Word Problems
Multi-step Problems
Linear Equations
Basic Geometry Skills
Graphing
Real-life Math
WORDS OF ADVICE FROM MATH TEACHERS “Help us help students understand why learning these concepts are needed in their life. We should be incorporating your skills or content to use as examples in our class as well.” “Look at your curriculum and look for ways to integrate simple math concepts. Don’t worry about trying to cover a very difficult concept.” “Please use graphs, fractions, and budgets as examples.”
LITERACY SKILLS
Reading comprehension Expanding students vocabulary Reading aloud Bloom’s Taxonomy 1. Remembering 2. Understanding 3. Applying 4. Analyzing 5. Evaluating 6. Creating
COMPREHENSION
When checking for your student’s understanding use questions from Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Can students synthesize or analyze the information they just read, heard, or watched?
TIERS OF VOCABULARY
WRITING SKILLS
Organized pieces of writing Writing in complete sentences Using appropriate vocabulary Content….Content…Content Writing for presentations Using multiple sources to help them write Career prep writing activities Not just “Essay writing”
WORDS OF ADVICE FROM ENGLISH TEACHERS
“Don’t focus on grammar and punctuation that is our job. Give our students the opportunities to write about the things they enjoy in your class.” “Don’t feel like writing assignments or activities should always be essays or reports. Make it as simple as answering a question with a thorough one paragraph answer.” “Help our students understand the importance of organization and content in their writing.”
PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
Steps to solving problems 1. Define the problem or what they are looking for 2. Generating alternatives 3. Evaluating and selecting alternatives 4. Implementing solutions Using multiple skills to solve a problem.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Public Speaking: Prepared and Impromptu Electronic communication Letter writing: professional and personal Formal presentations *Combining all the of these skills to present an informative presentation to peers or judges or potential employers
Daily Things You Can Do……
Ask students to answer in complete sentences. (Written and orally) Have a word of the day or bell ringer.
Pick one skill and work on it for five minutes each day. Stress the importance of these skills no matter what they choose to do after high school.
Make learning and using these skills fun and real-life scenarios.
Weekly Activities
Spend one day a week working on these skills—Applying current unit content Include questions on assessments using these skills Devote time to helping students with problems they are currently having in their core academic classes
Unit Projects/Grading Period Activities
Upon completion of a unit of study do projects that require students to use critical thinking skills and course content to complete.
Have projects that are worked on all grading period.
Examples: Costs of Owning a Pet For a Year, Owning Your Own Small Business—How Do I Get Started, Preparing for a Debate
Project-Based Activities
Science Fair Projects Using their SAE model and create a small business plan or proposal for a scenario like the TV show Shark Tank Creating presentations or pieces of literature for distribution to uneducated consumers or young children.
Create a plan before building or making a large project.
Sample Activities for English Skills
Word Walls Graphic Organizers for brainstorming before writing Writing activities 1 .
Letter of Interest for an Internship 2. Letter to the Editor-Defending the other side to a story or article 3. Three skills that will make them a successful person 4. Children’s Book– Based on a unit of study 5. Advertisements—Flyers 6. Pamphlets for Consumers
Graphic Organizers/Word Wall Samples
Sample Activities-English Skills
Creating a new agricultural biotechnology product -Poster for Career Fair -Written Report for Ag Company to Invest Creating Mock Facebook Pages for -Animals -Important Historical Agricultural Figures -Brands of Mechanics Equipment -Small Self-owned Businesses
Sample Activities—Math Skills
Equine Math—Used after an Equine unit in Animal Science ..\Across the Curriculum\Equine Applications.docx
Pesticide Math-Application in the Classroom ..\Across the Curriculum\_pesticide_math_worksheet.doc
Aquaculture Math ..\Across the Curriculum\Aquaculture math.docx
Sample Activities—Math Skills
5 Math Remediation problems.docx
..\Across the Curriculum\AG_8-5_20_Using Mathematics to Mix Feed.doc
..\Across the Curriculum\Earthworm math.docx
..\Across the Curriculum\Geometry.In.Ag.Mech.doc
..\Across the Curriculum\Geometry.In.Ag.Mech.ppt
Problem Solving Examples Scenario: Hello. My name is Bob. I am an Angus steer weighing about 1200 pounds. My owner Andy raised me to show at the County Fair. I am really excited to go to the fair next month. However, rumor has it on the farm that once a steer leaves for the fair they never come back. (Bob, will be sold at the end of the fair and sent to slaughter, this is 28 days away…… SSHHH don’t tell Bob.) I heard Andy, talking to his dad about treating me for shipping fever, so I didn’t get sick during fair week. I am so confused, if you were Andy, what drug would you give me? Scenario: Hey, how are you doing? My name is Tyler and I have two gilts (female pigs who have not had a litter yet), Mable and Sally that I plan to breed to raise club pigs. I hear that there is a vaccination to give my gilts to prevent still born births and other pregnancy complications. Do you know anything about this? I can’t remember what the vaccination is called and also don’t have any other information about the drug. I hear that you are good at raising pigs, can you help? Do you know what the vaccination is called?
Resources
Georgia Ag Ed website: www.gaaged.org
Scientific Minds subscription (Costs $) Communities of Practice Ag Math Textbooks— Teachers in your school
Keys to Successful Integration
Make it a priority and not just busy work. If you are positive about this more than likely your students will stay positive.
Make it fun and relate to your current topics in class.
Make the real-life connection. Answer the famous how am I going to use this in life question.
Don’t do this stuff every day. You don’t want your class to be known as another math or English class. Make the connections as to why these skills are important (Ex. success in FFA contests, getting a part-time job, graduating with a Core 40 or Honors, making it in the real world on their own, not having to take remedial courses anymore, etc.) If you practice a skill include it in your quiz and/or test. Make it valuable to the student for the class as well as personally.
Keeping Them Engaged
“5E” Model – Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate
Simple Methods of Implementation Word walls Bell ringers Problem of the week (day if you are on block) Writing Wednesday, Math Monday Fridays are always a good day to do something different or to sum up the week’s materials by reviewing content but learning or reviewing math/English concepts Put questions, problems, scenarios on quiz and test-- show the importance Webs—Brainstorm for writing prompts
What not to do with academic integration?
Don’t try to do it everyday. You aren’t a core teacher don’t forget our job is to teach about agriculture.
Don’t make it boring or like a typical math or English skills.
DON’T MAKE IT BUSY WORK!!
THANK YOU FOR COMING!!
Materials will be put on the NAAE Communities of Practice Join the Communities of Practice Group: Academic Integration and share your ideas