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Christina Howard, a Black River High School Agricultural Education Teacher, used Feed the World workshop lessons in a soils unit with her Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource (AFNR) and Animal and Plant Science classes. Students worked in a soil pit to analyze a soil profile four feet deep and three feet wide. While in the “pit,” students textured soil within each horizon, measured for erosion and depth, and identified any wate…

Feed the World, sponsored by Ohio Corn Education, recently gave away free soil test kits. One of the winners was science teacher Ryan Allshouse of Findlay High School. Allshouse decided to end the year teaching about agriculture and food production versus population and the amount of arable land.   Allshouse explained, “I placed my Environmental Science students in groups and each group tested a different component: pH, nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium. The…

On Thursday, March 24, rural agriculturalists encountered a peculiar experience they will never forget. Nearly 30 students from The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, Ohio traveled to Cleveland to visit East Technical High School and George Washington Carver STEM School. Dr. Nathan Crook brought his Introduction to Agricultural Communications, Education, and Leadership students to visit urban Agricultural Education. The future leaders and educators of our beloved industry had their …

Jeremy Grove teaches agriscience at East Technical High School in Cleveland. Here he talks about the impact of urban agriculture on his students and the city of Cleveland. “Two years ago I walked into a school in which nearly all of the students could not define “agriculture”. Their go-to foods include hot fries and chips, along with other snacks. All of their food comes from the corner liquor store and …

A Feed the World workshop participant shares her experience with the curriculum: My name is Danielle Haydocy and I teach at Clear Fork High School in Bellville, OH. I am an Agricultural Education teacher and I teach AFNR (agriculture, food, and natural resources) and Agricultural Communications all year long. Also, in the fall I teach Natural Resources and in the spring I teach Biotechnology and Veterinary Science. I used many …

Joanne Vakil, Middle School Math and Science Teacher at Dayton Islamic School, won a soil test kit from Feed the World and Ohio Corn & Wheat. She describes how she used the kit with her students: “My seventh grade Science class had a wonderful time going outside and testing the soil. This was after a week’s worth of readings in our textbook about the formation and composition of soil, as we…

Beth Berthold is a Landscape and Greenhouse Management instructor at the Lorain County JVS in Oberlin. After attending a Feed the World workshop, she shared what she’d learned with her students. “This workshop gave me fresh ideas to integrate into my teaching after 11 years in the classroom.” Berthold’s students learned about: soil: Students were able to identify the different particles in soil by creating a soil column using mason jars…

Jeremy Grove, an agriscience teacher at East Technical High School in Cleveland, attended the Feed the World workshop and shares his experience with those materials: I am utilizing the Feed the World curriculum specifically with my 7th grade class and I have pulled lessons to teach with my Animal & Plant Science courses at the high school level. We have completed the pGLO Bacterial Transformation lab and we are preparing t…