From amber waves of grain to equipment and technology
Second Grade teachers:
Our “States of Matter: Making Butter” lesson is designed to help students learn how milk turns into butter by making, or shaking, their own. It’s a great way to demonstrate different states of matter as students watch heavy cream separate into butter and buttermilk.
First Grade teachers:
Our “Pumpkin Life Cycle” lesson and bead bracelet activity will take your students on a journey beginning with the pumpkin seed through flowering and pollination and ending with a bright orange pumpkin! McLean County Ag in the Classroom will provide our Pumpkin Facts for Little Readers and all the materials your students need to complete the activity.
Kindergarten teachers:
Our “From Farm to Table” lesson and activity will take your students on a journey from putting a corn kernel into the ground to finding corn ingredients in their breakfast cereal! McLean County Ag in the Classroom will provide our Corn Facts for Little Readers and all the materials your students need to complete the activity.
Corn is McLean County & Illinois’ top crop – but where does it all go? Find out with these learning activities!
McLean County (IL) teachers can request FREE Corn ag mags and activity kits for their classroom: Click here
Corn Ag-tivities & Online Reading Materials
Corn Recipes
Books to Read – set up a FREE account on www.openlibrary.org to read these online books for FREE! Or contact us to check out books from our AITC library!
Corn Videos
Find a bushel full of resources and hands-on activities for learning all about apples!
McLean County (IL) teachers can request ag mags and apple activity kits for their classroom: Click here
Ag-tivities & Online Reading materials
Books to Read – set up a FREE account on openlibrary.org to read these online books for FREE!
Apple Recipes to Try
Virtual Field Trip to Braeutigam Orchards
Braeutigam Orchards from Illinois Agricultural Assoc. on Vimeo.
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