Classroom management

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalteachers/classroommanagement.htm

This site gives links to many other sites or articles with different techniques and tips for classroom management.

Drew

Curriculum Resources

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalteachers/curriculumresources.htm

This gives a lengthy list of curriculum resources. This is a good resource other than just CMS or IMS.

Drew

Ag Teacher's Resource Kit

http://www.flagsafe.ufl.edu/publications/res-kit.html

The Ag Teacher's Resource Kit was developed a couple of years ago for majors in the University of Florida's Agricultural Education and Communication Department. It was first presented to them before they went out for their first teaching assignments. The Kit has now become a standard part of the course Special Methods in Teaching Agriculture.
Students are presented with the materials assembled in a 3" binder. A 2-hour block of time is allocated where the contents are described and reviewed. Recommendations or examples are also discussed for how the materials can be used in the classroom.
The Kit has also been used as the basis of a workshop for teachers already in the field. In summer 2005, a 2-day workshop was held at the University of Florida for middle, junior and senior high school teachers. In addition to distributing and presenting the kit, attendees actually worked through several of the activities as if they were students.

Drew

National Ag Safety Database

http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/menu/state/ohio.html

This is an awesome site to visit for topics of ag safety. Great thing is, this pertain directly to Ohio. It also gives different articles and resources to safety research and other topics.

Drew

Space Agriculture

http://www.spaceag.org/teacherresources.htm

This is a very interesting site about agriculture and growing plants in space. The site has a few lesson plans that you can download.

Drew

The food timeline

http://www.foodtimeline.org/food2.html#agriculture

This is a good site about food and some industries. It also gives some of the history behind the crops. This would be a good site to use during a food science or crop unit.

Drew

ARS Photo Gallery

The Agricultural Research Service has a photo gallery with images you can use on reports, websites, projects, ect. It also has many resources for kids if you have to appeal to a younger crowd.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=1274

Stacy Jewell

Ag in the Classroom part 2

The official website for ag in the classroom is
http://www.agclassroom.org/teacher/index.htm

It has agricultural virtual field trips on it as well as science fair ideas!
Stacy Jewell

Ag in the classroom

This website gives different contact information for Ag in the Classroom lessons, which could be very useful!

http://www.vaswcd.org/documents/Education/NRCW/2003%20NRCW%20Resource%20List.pdf

Stacy Jewell

Ag Games

Georgia's Agricultural Education website has agricultural computer games that could be cool to have students do on a day you're absent!

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/agriculturalteachers/

Stacy Jewell

Ohio's Country Journal

If anyone has taken the Ag Comm 390 class this year, you more than likely have had Kyle Sharp as a teacher, and you know all about the Ohio Country Journal. There are some great articles in them about current ag issues that should be shared with students. Here is the website.

http://www.ocj.com/

Kurt Leber

Store Wars

PBS ran a documentary last year about the impact of "big box" stores on small communities. I haven't seen the documentary yet, but they have some good information about urban sprawl and the impact on small communities, plus they give some real-life instances.

Here is the site for the teacher resources to use with the documentary

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/teachers.html

Kurt Leber

Ag Ed Resources

I don't know if anyone else ran across this site while lesson planning and unitizing, but it is the Alpha Tau Alpha page, or ATA of Utah State University. It has a very comprehensive list of resources to use.

http://www.usu.edu/ata/resources.htm

Kurt Leber

Ag marketing

The ag markets can be confusing now especially with all the record prices we are seeing. It can be hard to decide what is the right way to market a product. Mark Gold, founder of Top Third Ag Marketing is an excellent source of knowledge. He gives presentations throughout the corn belt about proper marketing procedures. I have seen him and I would reccommend anyone who gets the chance to do so as well. He gives an awesome explanation of the ag markets and how everything is ran, which is good to know for anyone involved in ag. Here is his website, and there is an upcoming seminars box on the left. During the winter, that is filled. You can also see about bringing him to speak to your community and chapter. That would be a great learning experience for all!

http://www.topthird.com/content/even/

Kurt Leber

MSDS

Anyone looking for a detailed list of MSDS sheets should visit this website. It breaks products down by manuafacturer then by product. There is a huge variety of products on this site and it is an excellent resource. Some of them take a little bit of digging, but they are all good MSDS documents.

http://www.ehso.com/msds.php#U

Kurt Leber

Farm Safety Test

I found this awesome Farm Safety test that could be a great addition to a farm safety unit. Arkansas' Farm Bureau has an awesome website with some really cool programs that I wish Ohio was doing. I'll include both the Arkansas Farm Bureau website and the Farm Safety test.

AFB - http://www.arfb.com/

FST - http://www.arfb.com/!docs/safety-survey.pdf

Kurt Leber

Parli Pro Resource

Here is the website Dr. Connors offered as a great resource last Friday for anything parli pro. He said it is ran by a retired ag teacher from Michigan.

http://parlipro.northwest.net/

Kurt Leber

Animal Nutrition Resource

Not to brag, but my dad is pretty much a genius when it comes to animal nutrition. People many times consult him to diagnose their animals' problems. Feel free to contact him at any time; he is willing to help answer questions even if you do not intent on purchasing anything. ASE Feed and Supply's website is:

http://asefeedandsupply.com

Phone number: (614) 873-4621

If you do not feel comfortable calling him, you could also call me, and I can ask him!

Stacy

Sponge Activities

This fall we are all going to have a sponge activity for most of our lessons. Im not sure if you get any magazines like Successful Farming ,Ohio Farmer, Ohio Cattlemens, and so on but you can pull current articles from any of those magazine or others for a quick sponge activity. I have included the website for successful farming.

http://www.agriculture.com/ag/

Krysteena

In our Parli Pro Seminar we were shown this website. It has everything you need to teach parli pro in the classroom and prepare for contests. They have old tests from the National Contest that Dr. Connors has written! If you plan on coaching or even teaching parli pro in the fall take a look at this website!

http://parlipro.northwest.net/

Kryteena