Breakout Box Challenges for Your 2nd-6th Grade Classrooms — Free Presentations!
- 2nd-3rd Grades Seasons/Plant Life Cycle/Map Reading/Collaborative Learning
- 4th-6th Grades Climate/Production Cycle/Geographic Regions/Land Use/Agriculture /Collaborative Learning
Benefits
- Develops problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Promotes collaboration and teamwork
- Fosters a growth mindset—Students accept that failure is okay and part of the fun is trying again… Feelings of insecurity turn into pure joy when the students solve the last challenge and the box opens!
Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication and Creativity in Action!
To learn more, contact Jill Vigesaa. To schedule your classroom visit, click here.
Are you looking for engaging, fast-paced educator workshops that offer new ideas and hands-on, practical lessons to supplement your curriculum? Available for in-service, pre-service or NDSU full credit workshops. Contact Jill Vigesaa for more information.
The Food, Land & People Program has approximately 10 classes that can be offered with NDSU Continuing Education Credit. Workshops include the introduction to lessons, resources, engaging activities, field trips, guest speakers and more. These classes will also provide educators with:
* Supplementary Curriculum for PreK-12
* Professional Development Credit with NDSU
* Reinforcement of Educational Strategies
- Critical thinking
- Problem based learning
- Inquiry based and cooperative learning lessons
One Credit Classes I nterdisciplinary Courses for K-12
FLP I—This class is a celebration of how cultures around the world developed based on what the land provided and an awareness of human connections to one's environment. This course includes an introduction to across-the-curriculum lessons and a field trip experience. This is always a favorite among educators across the state!
FLP II—This Land & Water Conservation course includes hands on learning for all educators. We explore lessons for K-12 that focus on many aspects of conservation such as land use, recycling and local issues.
FLP III— This course focuses on nutrition and consumer behavior with lessons for K-12. Eat Well, Be Well Lessons are engaging and easy to implement.
FLP VIII—Growing with STEAM course introduces many lessons that are hands on exploratory lessons with strong STEAM connections.
Course Descriptions and Syllabus
NDFB - Committed to Education of our Future Generations
Where does food come from? The grocery store or the local deli? In our highly urbanized society today, the vast majority of our students have limited contact with agriculture and are alarmingly ignorant about the source of their most basic food. In fact, the average person is now over four generations removed from a farm. That means our young people no longer go to Grandpa and Grandma's farm to visit the animals and ride the tractor.... the vast majority do not have relatives on the farm at all!
Project Food, Land & People is a non-profit organization made up of volunteers from across United States, who are dedicated to teaching the next generation about agriculture. For the past 30 years FLP has been offering exciting, standards-based curriculum to classrooms across the country, educating students of all backgrounds in rural, suburban, and urban school settings. FLP produces lessons written by educators for educators, of the highest quality that are piloted in classrooms to measure and strengthen their impact.
Project FLP in North Dakota is supported by the ND Farm Bureau and the ND Department of Agriculture/Ag in the Classroom Program. Credit workshops for educators are held both online and face-to-face.
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