Teacher Training

Ag Overview
	Checking My Ag Facts
	Defining Agriculture
	Why Agricultural Literacy?
	Source Relay
	Food For Thought Around the World (PowerPoint)

Resource Packet Review
	Teacher Resource Center; www.agclassroom.org/ut
	Postcard, Pen, Food. Land and People (FLP CD)
	Utah Ag Activity Map
	NIE: Working With Nature
	Bee-Line Newsletter (last 2-3 issues)
	AgroWorld Sample (Subscribe Now!)
	Farm Facts (See *Global Grocery Bags* lesson on FLP CD)
	“Essential Nines” Summary
	USDA-AITC fold-over
	MyPyramid for Kids Poster
	Adult MyPyramid

Overview of World History
	Old and New World Food Mapping Activity (World Fabric Map), Foodtimeline.org, World Climates, "Ag" Zones
	World Civilizations (PowerPoint)
	Guns, Germs, and Steel (Book)
	If the World Were a Village (Book)
	Weslandia (Book)
	Ancient Agriculture (Book)
	Ancient Recipes-Foods of Bible Times (Video/DVD)
	Everybody Bakes Bread (Book)
	Seeds of Change (4 Books)
	Eating the Plates (Book)
	Cooking Up World History (Book)
	Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn & Beans (Book)
	Nory Ryan's Song (Book)
	The Irish Famine: The Birth of Irish America (Book)
	World Agriculture (Book)
	European Agricultural Map
	Wool Spinning
	*Trading Favorites* (FLP CD)
	Smithsonian pictures/slides (Geography PowerPoint)
	National Geographic Population Maps (National Geographic)

Overview of U.S. and Utah History related to Food, Land and People
	In the Good Old Days – Growing a Nation: The Story of American Agriculture, Instructional Unit, page 7 Growing a Nation Program and website www.agclassroom.org/gan > Sample Slides and Navigation > Website, Instructional Unit, and other Primary Source Media > Significant Agricultural Events and Impacts: 1600-1929, Chronology (pages10-14) > Cotton Ginning (page 4) > Cotton Bolls > Embedded Resources and Teaching Strategies (pages 50-180)
	Modern Marvels: Farming Technology (DVD)
	Modern Marvels Agriculturally Related Video Gallery
	Lazy B (Book)
	America the Bountiful (6-Video series)
	Colonial House - PBS DVD
	Frontier House - PBS DVD
	Natural Resources of North America Map
	Right Here on the This Spot (Book)
	Barn (Book)
	Out of the Dust (Book)
	Survival in the Storm (Book)
	Heartland (Book)
	Seedfolks (Book)
	Esperanza Rising (Book)
	Changes and Challenges: A Century of Utah Agriculture (CD Program and Instructional Unit)
	Utah Agriculture Activity Map

Group Activities

Group 1

• Chocolate Taste-testing and Geography (FLP CD)

• Loco for Cocoa

Group 2

• How Much is Dirt Worth? Apple and Tootsie Demo

• Keeping Soil in its Place — Splash Zone

• Dark Days (elementary) or Growing a Nation (secondary) Photo

Group 3

• Making Ice Cream

• Milk Sampling (Changes and Challenges: A Century of Utah
Agriculture) page 16

• Making Butter

Groups 4 & 5

• From Sea to Shining Sea (FLP CD), use with Farm Fact

(booklet)

Group 6

• Wheat Kit

• Grains of the World

• Breads Around the World (FLP CD)

Group 7

Group 8

• MyPyramid Table Tent

Group 9

Wrap-up Activities

• Growing a Nation Question Cards (pages 198-200)

• World Hunger Maps

• Earth City

• Madidi National Geographic, March 2000

Other Titles on the Food, Land & People CD

Amazing Grazing	Piecing Together Population Patterns
By the Way	Seasons Through the Year
Cows or Condos?	Six Billion and Still Growing
Don't Use it All Up!	Soils Not Trivial
Expression Connection	Step by Step
Feed the Need	Till We or Won't We
From Apple Cores to Healthy Soils	To Whom It May Concern
Global Grocery Bags	What Piece of the Pie
It All Starts with A	What Will the Land Support
Less Elbowroom	What's the Shape of Your Diet?
Let's Celebrate	Why I Buy
Lunchtime Favorites