BEV GRUEBER

Bev Grueber's goal as a 4th grade teacher at North Bend Public Schools in North Bend, Nebraska, is to link agriculture with her Nebraska studies unit. The students start the unit by learning how important agriculture was to the settlement of Nebraska and then continue the unit to understand the role that agriculture plays in their lives today. This 4th grade classroom is an exciting place to learn math, science, social studies and reading by using agriculture as the vehicle. An Agriculture Festival was planned with the student's researching the different commodities, where they were grown in Nebraska and the many ways we use each product. This information is shared with the community by reaching out to the senior citizens in the retirement center. Through Bev's enthusiasm and commitment to agriculture, her students will be aware of how essential agriculture is to each person.

JEANETTE ALTHOUSE

As you walk into Jeanette Althouse's classroom of 4th and 5th grade students in the Sutton Public School in Sutton, Nebraska, all the students are engaged in hands-on, minds-on activities. The students are learning how agriculture touches their lives every day. The students discovered that everything from the grains in their cereal to the crayons they use to color; the leather in their football to the soy bio-diesel in their school bus come from the agriculture industry. To spread the word about agriculture, the students developed ABC booklets that focused on agricultural products using all the letters of the alphabet. These booklets were shared with students in other grades by playing Bingo on the Wall or Jeopardy with information from the booklets. The subjects included in the booklet showed the diversity of Nebraska agriculture and that we cannot live without agriculture.

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