NEBRASKA

State Contact: Ms. Ellen Hellerich Nebraska Agriculture in the Classroom 5225 South 16th Street Lincoln, NE 68512-1275

Phone: (402) 421-4408 Fax: (402) 421-4761 E-mail: ellenh@nefb.org Website

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Major projects accomplished this year

• Offered five two-day summer workshops for science, family and consumer science and agricultural education teachers. Each received a Food Science/Food Safety curriculum for their classroom and other resources related to this topic.
• Continued to expand the elementary pr-service presentations to 12 colleges and universities across the state. This year some of the presentations were for middle level teachers.
• Co-hosted in-service presentations with the State Department of Education to distribute the CD, Growing a Nation.
• Presentations at Agricultural Festivals reached over 1500 students.
• Ag Pen Pals Program has been expanded to all school districts in the state. This year we have 255 farm/ranch families corresponding with the same number of classrooms.
• Our Endowment Fund had more contributors this year. We are trying to reach our goal of $100,000.

Major impacts the program had this year

• 110 science, family and consumer science and agricultural education teachers participated in the summer workshops and are using the Food Science/Food Safety curriculum in their classrooms.
• 100% of the teachers in the Ag Pen Pal Program in their survey indicated their students gained knowledge about agriculture—where their food comes from.
• 325 social studies and agricultural education teacher received instruction on the use of the CD, Growing a Nation.
• Pr-service teachers' evaluation results. On a scale of 1 to 5 and 5 the highest rating:

  		5	4	3	2	1
  	Packet of Resources	83%	15%	2%	0	0
  	Lesson Plan Booklet	86%	13%	1%	0	0
  	Hands-on Activities	88%	10%	2%	0	0
  	Activities Related to Subject	87%	12%	1%	0	0
  	Presenter	92%	7%	1%

• Total number of students surveyed: 569