AgMag engages students with MN agriculture
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Above: Jill Haehn is a teacher-coach with the St. Cloud Public Schools
Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
When you think about skills for life,
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Teacher tours build connections to ag
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Over 20 K-12 educators stood near the grain bins at Angela Guentzel’s family corn and soybean farm in Kasota on Tuesday morning, where they learned about the mechanics of grain marketing and storage.
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Summer tours bring teachers to the farm
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Above: A 2022 summer teacher tour
Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
Here’s a math problem: how do 112,000 Minnesota farmers help 5.7 million Minnesotans get better acquainted with their food?
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MN Ag in the Classroom Teacher Tours are back!
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Discover Minnesota’s vast agricultural diversity and bring it back to the classroom with Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom’s 2023 Teacher Tours! Teacher Tours are designed to give educators hands-on experience with Minnesota agriculture and have a good time while doing it!
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Teacher tours help educators trace connections to agriculture
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
Generations now separate most schoolkids from any direct experience of farming — maybe their great-grandparents, or their great-great-grandparents farmed.
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Stories about agriculture light up young minds
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
There’s food.
And then there’s food for thought.
Learning and thinking can’t exist without food,
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Farm Camp: “Connected learning” on the farm
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Written By Jonathan Eisenthal
On a bright, sunny October day, as Redwood County farmer Bruce Tiffany harvested his corn crop, over 200 sixth-graders from 13 southern Minnesota schools rode along in the cab.
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Teachers get front-row seat to the world of raising food
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Above: The Minnesota Ag in the Classroom (MAITC) staff, pictured here, has wrapped up its second year of virtual farm visits for educators. Minnesota Corn has been a proud sponsor of MAITC for over 30 years.
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MN Ag in the Classroom explores benefits of school gardens in St. Paul
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MN Ag in the Classroom (MAITC) brings hundreds of Minnesota educators to farm country each year as part of its mission to improve ag literacy in schools.
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