Kathy Schellpeper believes the Agriculture in the Classroom program provides teachers with a wealth of materials that cover all aspects of agriculture. As a third grade teacher at Calvert Elementary School in Lincoln, she uses the ag production map, crop and livestock cards, seed samples, as well as many other resources to bring agriculture into the lives of her students. Most recently she developed lessons and activities to provide her students and students statewide an opportunity to acquire a love of reading while they learn about soybeans. These activities correlate with the AITC children's book "Why the Brown Bean was Blue" and achieve the new State Standards for language arts.

Schellpeper also participates in the Ag Pen Pal program, which is an excellent source of communication between the students and a farm/ranch family in Nebraska. Occasionally her farm/ranch family will visit the classroom, which is a wonderful interactive learning tool for students. 

Berni Crow teaches all subject areas in a self-contained fourth grade classroom in the Arnold Public School District. Because every student has a laptop computer, technology is incorporated in every phase of learning along with agriculture. In Crow's class she has her students use the iMovie program on their computers to create and organize the history of a local family. Arnold is a small progressive village numbering 600-plus residents and rests in the heart of agriculture country. They've concentrated on families who've farmed the same land for 100 years or more. When the families send photos, each are scanned and used in the movie, which is presented by the students.

Another project Crow does with her class uses Skype, a software application that allows users to connect through video conferencing over the Internet. Last year, Arnold students communicated with the Papillion School District; questions and answers dealt with agriculture and economic forces in each community. Because Papillion is in a metropolitan area, their students learned about the economics of farming from the Arnold students. The project brought fourth grade students 200 miles away from each other together in real time.