UTAH

State Contact: Ms. Debra Spielmaker Utah Agriclture in the Classroom 2315 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-2315

Phone: (435) 213-5562 Fax: (435) 797-4002 E-mail: debra.spielmaker@usu.edu Website

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Classroom Resources
AgQuest Cards, Grades 2-9 (Classroom Activity). Modeled after the popular Brain Quest® cards, AgQuest cards are based on the 5Fs of agriculture: farm, food, fabric, flowers, and forestry.

Career & Technical Education, Introduction (CTE), Grades 7-8 (Instructional Unit). These lesson plans were designed for middle school CTE Food and Consumer Science, Technology and Business Education teachers and their students.

Farming in a Glove, Grades 1-5 (Kit). Grow your own farm in a glove! This kit contains instructions and enough materials for 35 students to plant five different seeds in the fingers of a food handler's glove and the cotton necessary to sprout them.

Food Models MyPyramid Activity Poster, Grades K-6 (Poster). This 26" x 42" MyPyramid Activity Poster works in conjunction with the Food Models to teach your students about food groups and food placement on the MyPyramid.

Grains of the World, Grades 4-7 (Kit). This hands-on activity explores grains common in global agricultural production - barley, corn, oats, rice, soybeans and wheat.

Heredity, A Link to Your Past!, Grades 4-6 (Instructional Unit/Lesson Plan). This revised instructional unit discusses how members of any given species transfer traits from one generation to the next.

MyPyramid Table Tent, Grades 3-6 (Classroom Activity). This 11" x 17" MyPyramid Table Tent provides teachers with an excellent resource for teaching students about the updated version of the Food Guide Pyramid.

Five newly revised bulletin boards were developed this year: The Power of Choice, Pizza Time, What is a Fruit?, What is a Vegetable? & Who Makes the Best Burger?

Science in Your Shopping Cart, Grades 6-12 (Video 14 min. & Booklet). Each year, dozens of improved products and new varieties of fruits, nuts, and vegetables emerge from the laboratories and greenhouses of the Agricultural Research Service.

Sheep – Utah's Agricultural Cornerstone, Grades 4-7 (DVD 23 min.). During the first decades of the 20th century, sheep were the most important livestock in Utah in both numbers and value.

Working with Nature, Grades 4-12 (Publication, 2007). These publications were created by Utah State University-Agriculture in the Classroom in cooperation with the Deseret Morning News Newspapers in Education program.

Major Program Accomplishments
ONLINE Course for K-6 teachers

65 teachers enrolled on our online course this year reaching 1,950 students with 30 hours of instruction about agriculture as it relates to state core curriculum.

Three social studies Teacher Academies were conducted this past year involving 100 teachers with agricultural instruction to be used in their classroom.

Student teachers (700) were introduced to AITC at six state universities this year. We expanded our online Teacher Resource Center both in teacher use and the resources offered. Twenty-five resources including books, videos, posters, bulletin boards, and other materials were added to the Resource Center. This year the TRC has completed 424 teacher orders (an increase of 25%).

600 Career Technical Education teachers received training with revised AITC materials and software. A new instructional unit, Science in Your Shopping Cart was developed.

Three Issues of the Bulletin, our K-6 Teacher Newsletter was distributed to 2,000 teachers.

Deseret News Newspapers in Education Publication was written by AITC and sent to 657,000 students statewide.

Farm Field Day Instructional Materials for 500 teachers, statewide

Four issues of the e-zine, AgroWorld, (for secondary teachers) were published. 787 (an increase of 45%) Utah teachers receive this bimonthly publication. An index was created on the AgroWorld Website for back issues along with a promotional flyer for the USDA-AITC website.

Major Program Impacts
This year 210,000 students were taught with AITC created and statewide mandatory instructional units in science (4th grade soils, 5th grade heredity, 6th grade microorganism, K-6 nutrition, Technology, Life and Careers (7th grade). State test scores on these topic have remained above average since this curricula was implemented in 2001.

78 teachers enrolled in our online course in 2007. Each teacher reaches at least 25 students with 28 hours of classroom instruction to meet state standards.

12,000 students were reached with classroom materials (books, videos, etc.) from our resource center. Traffic to our website increased by 50%. (105,440 unique visitors).