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Converting Agricultural Lesson Plans To Be Common Core Compliant For Grades 3-5, Hattie Kaymarie Jameson, Brittany Rose Withnell

Agricultural Education and Communication

There are few Common Core approved lesson plans for teachers to incorporate into traditional science programs in California. The Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom (AITC) program provides K-12 educators lesson plans with an agricultural focus. Only 13 out of 45 of the lesson plans that the California AITC website offers are Common Core approved (Learn About Ag, 2017).

Agricultural literacy is valuable to consumers, can lead to careers in agriculture, and can create a greater understanding of the world and of science for students. The agricultural lessons give students a real life relationship with what they are learning and …

Teacher Internship Report - Nipomo High School, Christine F. Woodman

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

This internship/project report includes validation documents required in meeting the quality criteria for secondary-level programs of instruction in agriculture at Nipomo High School. The documents are concurrently used for the Agriculture Incentive Grant review process at Nipomo High School conducted by representatives of the California Department of Education. The internship also included the development of a comprehensive chapter website to provide information and publicity for the Nipomo FFA Chapter. It serves a repository of chapter information and documents, a home for parent information, and as a public face for the chapter. The project also includes a plan for the renovation …