New York Agriculture in the Classroom | August 2023 | |
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Do you know a student with a $3,000 idea?
Grow-NY Youth Competition
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Our youth are the next generation of business developers, agriculture, food, and technology leaders. With the hope of inspiring and investing in the future of food, outstanding middle and high school youth will be selected to attend the 2023 Grow-NY competition and pitch their business idea to a panel of youth judges.
New for this year, youth-specific entrepreneur workshops will be offered during each day of the contest. If you would like to bring a group of students to attend the Grow-NY competition on one or both days in November to watch the business pitches and connect with the entrepreneurs in food and agriculture, up to 100 students will be admitted at no charge to the event. More details on registering your students will be forthcoming, but we would welcome your participation and engagement in the event.
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The Grow-NY competition will take place November 14-15, 2023 in Binghamton, NY. Applications are due October 6, 2023 by 5:00pm EST. | |
Upcoming Events and Important Dates |
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JULY 20
NAITCO Virtual Conference
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SEPT 15
CHS Classroom Grant Applications Due
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OCT 6
Grow-NY Applications Due
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OCT 6
NAITCO Workshop Proposals Close
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Agriculture Career Day at the NYS Fair
Are you or your students interested in learning more about the wide range and variety of careers available in agriculture? The New York State Fair will be your one-stop shop for learning all about the many places agriculture can take you on Thursday, August 24, 2023.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Labor and New York Agriculture in the Classroom, with help from FFA chapters from across the state. Join us for a scavenger hunt and other fun activities throughout the day! Registration will be on-site at the New York State Fairgrounds.
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New York State Fair August 24, 2023
10am-2pm
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CHS Classroom Grants
CHS Foundation provides $500 grants each year to pre-kindergarten-12th grade teachers who have classroom projects that use agricultural concepts to teach reading, writing, math, science, social studies and more. Eligible projects include classroom and schoolyard gardens, embryology projects, aquaculture projects and agricultural literacy reading programs to name a few. Teachers have until June 1 the following year to complete the project and submit a final report. Only state-certified classroom teachers employed by a school district or private school teachers are eligible to apply.
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Applications will open on August 1, 2023 and the deadline is September 15, 2023. | |
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NAITCO Request for Workshop Proposals
National Agriculture in the Classroom is seeking workshop proposals for the 2024 NAITC Conference "Agriculture Elevated" scheduled for June 24-27, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Proposals must demonstrate how the workshop uses agricultural concepts to meet the National Agricultural Literacy Outcomes (NALOs) and teach reading, writing, math, nutrition, science, STEM, social studies and other subject areas. Proposals also must reach early elementary (grades pre-kindergarten-2), upper elementary (grades 3-5), middle school (grades 6-8), high school (9-12) or all grades. The main workshop presenter of accepted proposals will receive a discount of $50.00 off the early-bird conference registration.
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Grades K-2
Little Red Hen
In this lesson, students use the story The Little Red Hen to investigate wheat production and bread making. Students thresh their own wheat and grind it into flour to make bread.
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Grades 3-5
Desktop Greenhouses
Students will investigate the importance of light to plants by creating a desktop greenhouse investigation and exploring the process of photosynthesis in this lesson.
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Grades 9-12
One in a Million
In this lesson, students will learn about solutes and solvents and will use serial dilution while investigating parts per million—a term used to describe the nutrient concentration of a fertilizer solution.
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Sun in My Tummy
How does a home-cooked breakfast give a little girl the energy she needs for a brand-new day? Take a journey into the earth where sleepy seeds are tickled awake and grow into golden oats; into blueberry patches, where green leaves break apart water and air to build sweet sugar; and into a pasture where sun becomes grass, becomes cow, becomes milk.
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Logan's Greenhouse
Logan is organizing a pet playdate at his greenhouse for all of his friends, and his treats won't be the same without his carrots. He's searched and searched, but his greenhouse is filled with plenty of plants and Logan needs our help to identify them. What do we know about carrots? They're long, orange, and have bushy leaves at the top—and, wait a moment, is that a carrot? No, that's a turnip. Where, oh, where could those carrots be? Can you help Logan find them in time for his playdate?
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