SWAP

This month's swap focused on Alabama Agirculture in the Classroom (AITC). Ms. Kim was fortunate enough to spend time at the AITC workshop this summer. AITC provides teachers with the tools needed to educate students on the importance of agriculture and how it affects their daily lives. We thought Thanksgiving would be a great time to introduce this concept to our students.
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In Ms. Kim's room, the students explored cotton and all its resources. They learned that cotton is used to make money, makeup, plastic, and oil, as well as make clothing. They had lots of fun learning about cotton and ended their session with a cotton ball race.

 

 

 

The students learned about where milk comes from and how it gets from the farm to the store in Ms. Kaley's room. Then made a spotted cow face.

 

 

 

And in Mrs. Jaysa's classroom the students learned about the uses of plants, plant parts and functions, flower parts, seed parts, seed shapes, and photosynthesis. Then we took the seed packets I was going to throw away and recycled them into seed books. The students then could draw and label the parts of a plant.

 

Oh Say Can You Seed? is the perfect book for this lesson!

 

 

 

In my room, the students discussed how to plant and harvest. Then they glued seeds to a popsicle stick with can be placed in the ground in the spring. The type of seed was written at the top that will stick out so they will remember what they planted.