I taught ruminant digestion to my students, then they made a video. It's not the best because we were short on time, but I'm still extremely proud of them!
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Website Evaluations
I have gone through several websites looking for valid information to use when teaching in my classroom. This is a list of websites I found that would benefit my class:
Website Evaluations:
1. Name of Site: National Wildlife Association
2. Website Address: http://www.nwf.org/
3. Copyright Date/Last Update: 2012
4. Author/Organization Credentials: This Site is owned by the National Wildlife Federation ("NWF"). NWF maintains this Site for your personal, educational, non-commercial purposes. Certain pages feature online ordering capabilities.
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: The design is simple enough. There is a bar on the top where you decide where you want to go, and a side bar where you can donate, shop, renew, or adopt. There are several blogs you can get to from this site and they are right on the front page. There is a wildlife tab at the top where you can go and learn about different species of animals which would be quite handy in a wildlife class. The appearance appeals to the animal lover. There is a cute seal on the front that will attract students to want to look for more similar beloved animals.
6. Response and Recommendation for Use: This website contains excellent information for students to use when they want to learn more about wildlife. You could learn about wildlife animals you know nothing about, and their environment. One of the goals of this website is conservation which is a big topic in Agriculture on how to preserve and conserve more so we can provide for this world in the best possible means. We only have one planet currently available to populate and thus we need to take excellent care of it for our future generations. If we can influence kids to keep this in mind, perhaps we can improve the way this world is going. There are excellent photos available for kids to explore and expand their understanding of different animals and their niches. Looking at the plants on this website teaches you why each one is important in the eco system and which ones are edible as opposed to poisonous. There are suggestions here on how to survive if you get lost in the wilderness and how to react when you are alone with the wildlife. There are some mentions of people disagreeing with hunting or fishing, however most are pretty strict at not debating this argument.
1. Name of Site: ICEV Online
2. Website: http://www.icevonline.com
3. Copyright Date: © 2013 iCEV
4 . Author/Organization Credentials: CEV Multimedia, Ltd., founded in 1984, is on the forefront of innovative educational materials. CEV specializes in providing quality curriculum and educational resources for the subject areas of Agricultural Science & Technology, Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Sciences, Trade & Industry and Career Orientation.
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation:: ICEV is a great website complete with lesson plans and teaching curriculum. I have found this website to be extremely handy when looking for powerpoints or lesson plans to assist in planning classes. At first I was a little confused by how it works, but once you play with it a little bit, you get the basic gist.
6. Response and recommendations for use: This website allows students to practice for judging contests, provides teachers with lessons and ideas for lesson to bring to class. Each lesson is well planned out and organized for easy integration into the classroom
1. Name of site: Quality Counts
2. Website: www. agrilife.org/qualitycounts.com
3. Copyright Date: 2013
4, Author: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: Quality Counts website helps students learn proper care for their livestock animals. Every FFA student who raises any animals is required to learn the information on this website and complete a test. Navigating this website is easy enough for any person. There are games, and a plethora of information available.
6. Response and Recommendations for use: I would have students work on this for about a week, playing games and reading articles set forth to teach them basic care for livestock animals. It is truly a valuable resource, when we as teachers want to express how important proper care for animals is.
1. Web Site: National FFA Organization
2. Address: http://www.ffa.org/
3. Copyright: 2013, National FFA Organization
4. Design/Navigation: Having used this website since I was in highschool, I have never had an issue navigating it. It has pictures of students from the past year so that when students look at it and they find theirselves, they feel a sense of accomplishment.
5. Response and Recommendations for use: This website represents the organization I love. I love how they made information about the FFA available online. I use this website to share information with my students of the rich history of FFA, the proper use of parlimentary procedure, and rules and guidelines for contests. I would have students look on this webpage and find certain dates and information that correlate with the FFA.
Website Evaluations:
1. Name of Site: National Wildlife Association
2. Website Address: http://www.nwf.org/
3. Copyright Date/Last Update: 2012
4. Author/Organization Credentials: This Site is owned by the National Wildlife Federation ("NWF"). NWF maintains this Site for your personal, educational, non-commercial purposes. Certain pages feature online ordering capabilities.
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: The design is simple enough. There is a bar on the top where you decide where you want to go, and a side bar where you can donate, shop, renew, or adopt. There are several blogs you can get to from this site and they are right on the front page. There is a wildlife tab at the top where you can go and learn about different species of animals which would be quite handy in a wildlife class. The appearance appeals to the animal lover. There is a cute seal on the front that will attract students to want to look for more similar beloved animals.
6. Response and Recommendation for Use: This website contains excellent information for students to use when they want to learn more about wildlife. You could learn about wildlife animals you know nothing about, and their environment. One of the goals of this website is conservation which is a big topic in Agriculture on how to preserve and conserve more so we can provide for this world in the best possible means. We only have one planet currently available to populate and thus we need to take excellent care of it for our future generations. If we can influence kids to keep this in mind, perhaps we can improve the way this world is going. There are excellent photos available for kids to explore and expand their understanding of different animals and their niches. Looking at the plants on this website teaches you why each one is important in the eco system and which ones are edible as opposed to poisonous. There are suggestions here on how to survive if you get lost in the wilderness and how to react when you are alone with the wildlife. There are some mentions of people disagreeing with hunting or fishing, however most are pretty strict at not debating this argument.
1. Name of Site: ICEV Online
2. Website: http://www.icevonline.com
3. Copyright Date: © 2013 iCEV
4 . Author/Organization Credentials: CEV Multimedia, Ltd., founded in 1984, is on the forefront of innovative educational materials. CEV specializes in providing quality curriculum and educational resources for the subject areas of Agricultural Science & Technology, Business & Marketing, Family & Consumer Sciences, Trade & Industry and Career Orientation.
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation:: ICEV is a great website complete with lesson plans and teaching curriculum. I have found this website to be extremely handy when looking for powerpoints or lesson plans to assist in planning classes. At first I was a little confused by how it works, but once you play with it a little bit, you get the basic gist.
6. Response and recommendations for use: This website allows students to practice for judging contests, provides teachers with lessons and ideas for lesson to bring to class. Each lesson is well planned out and organized for easy integration into the classroom
1. Name of site: Quality Counts
2. Website: www. agrilife.org/qualitycounts.com
3. Copyright Date: 2013
4, Author: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
5. Web Site Design and Ease of Navigation: Quality Counts website helps students learn proper care for their livestock animals. Every FFA student who raises any animals is required to learn the information on this website and complete a test. Navigating this website is easy enough for any person. There are games, and a plethora of information available.
6. Response and Recommendations for use: I would have students work on this for about a week, playing games and reading articles set forth to teach them basic care for livestock animals. It is truly a valuable resource, when we as teachers want to express how important proper care for animals is.
1. Web Site: National FFA Organization
2. Address: http://www.ffa.org/
3. Copyright: 2013, National FFA Organization
4. Design/Navigation: Having used this website since I was in highschool, I have never had an issue navigating it. It has pictures of students from the past year so that when students look at it and they find theirselves, they feel a sense of accomplishment.
5. Response and Recommendations for use: This website represents the organization I love. I love how they made information about the FFA available online. I use this website to share information with my students of the rich history of FFA, the proper use of parlimentary procedure, and rules and guidelines for contests. I would have students look on this webpage and find certain dates and information that correlate with the FFA.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Reading Response Log
Through my student teaching experience, I was tasked to find 5 books that correlated with my content. I have read and taken something away from each of these books. Now it is my privilege to share these books with you. :)
This is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband Almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived
Title: All
Creatures Great and Small
Author: James
Herriot
Publisher: St.
Martin’s Press
Copyright: 1998
ISBN: 9780312965785
Genre: comedy/drama/nonfiction
Library: Abilene
Public Library
Summary: All
Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his
calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural
Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school.
Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in
the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some
are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and
pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and
yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's
recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings
together to be able to get proper care for their working animals.
From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the
remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals,
Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of
veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world
shine forth.
Personal Comments: I
first read this book by happening upon it at a garage sale. I was then
transported to another time and another life full of heartache, laughter, hope,
and excitement. You really connect to the young vet as he cares for the various
animals; and through them the people in the area he is living. You see the
struggle he has when he has to put an animal down, and empathize. Generally the
vet is the bad guy for having to put a loved animal to sleep, but when you read
this it helps you to really get into ones shoes and live the life of a country
vet with him.
Suggested Use in
Classroom: I feel this book would be good for a vet tech class. You can
read it and discuss why it is important to build rapport with your customers.
You could also discuss stories that the vet encountered, and determine if
another method could be used today to treat the medical problem, and what other options you could perform if you had
limited resources.
Title: Farmer Boy
Author: Laura
Ingalls Wilder
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Copyright: April
8, 2008
ISBN: 0064400034
Genre: Western
Library: Abilene
Public Library
Summary: While Laura Ingalls
grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on
a big farm in New York State. Here Almanzo and his brother and sisters help
with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped
and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes
when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town.
This is Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of how her husband Almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where Laura lived
Personal Comments: This
is the book that got me interested in Agriculture. I read this book and fell in
love with the idea of raising a pig. So, in 4th grade when I first
read this I decided that upon entering High school I would join the FFA and
raise pigs. This book teaches you morals about using your money for something
that will last longer and make you more money, and Choosing to play after you
finish the work.
Suggested Use in
Classroom: I think I would use this in my Principles of Ag class and use it
to discuss different types of SAE. In the book Almanzo uses an entrepreneurship
type of SAE and I could teach students to identify which type it is. Also, the
book touches up on basic agriculture economic concepts so it would be a great
opener to discuss ways to reinforce making money in the agriculture world.
Title: Guide to
Bees and Honey
Author: Ted
Hooper
Publisher:
NORTHERN BEE BOOKS
Copyright: 27 May
2010
ISBN: 1904846513
Genre: Non
Fiction
Library: Abilene
Public Library
Summary: This is
the ideal guide for anyone wanting to start beekeeping and a revered reference
book for experienced beekeepers. It includes information on all you need to
know, including how to avoid swarms, plan requeening, or provide the colony
with winter stores. It features key information on Varroa. It is copiously
illustrated throughout. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of
"Guide to Bees and Honey" also presents expert advice for readers who
plan to maintain a few hives for personal recreational use, as well as those who want to expand an existing colony into a
commercial venture.
Personal Comments: I
found this to be very informational. I already love studying bugs and
entomology but this inspired me to want to have my own personal colony of bees
so that I could produce honey.
Suggested Use in
Classroom: If the school I worked at had the proper resources I believe I
could use this book to teach high school students how to produce honey, and use
a bee farm to pollinate crops or fields. We could also use this to start
discussing entomology and different mouth parts, significance and orders for
bugs.
Title: Humane
Livestock Handling
Author: Temple
Grandin
Publisher: Storey
Publishing
Copyright: June
1, 2008
ISBN: 1603420282
Genre: Science
Library: Abilene
Public Library
Summary: Temple
Grandin, North America's most influential advocate of humane livestock
treatment, has spent her life developing stress-free facility designs and
standards of humane management. In an environment of growing concern regarding
large factory-farming practices, Grandin is a voice of reason explaining the
benefits of keeping animals calm through every phase of their lives — benefits
that include safer working conditions, higher yields of marketable meat,
better-quality meat, and, of course, more humane conditions for the animals. The
first half of Humane Livestock Handling reviews the natural behavior and
temperament of cattle. Working with the animals' natural instincts, Grandin
describes low-stress methods for moving cattle on pastures, paddocks, and
feedlot pens. Slow, controlled movement reduces stress and fear, resulting in
calmer, healthier cattle. They eat better, are less likely to become sick, and
do not run into fences and gates, injuring themselves and bruising the meat.
Calm cattle are also far less likely to injure the humans working with them.
Personal Comments: I
first heard about Temple Grandin from my sister and brother in law. Their son,
my nephew, is autistic and so they are really big on anything or anyone in
support of autism. I was so impressed with her work that I read her book and
found her book to give excellent insight on the behavior of animals. After
reading her tale I found things clicking and making sense.
Suggested Use in
Classroom: I would use this book in the classroom to help students
understand diversity, and using it to help discuss animal welfare. If animals
feel or act one way how can we work with them to increase productivity? This
book would help students with critical thinking in how livestock animals should
be treated and used.
Title: Riding the
Chisholm Trail
Author: Toni
Marie Hopper
Publisher: BlurbInc
Copyright: 2007
ISBN: 9781110131921
Genre: Photo Book
Library: Abilene
Public Library
Summary: The
Oklahoma Centennial Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive of 2007 was 14 years in the
making. The cowboys and cowgirls spent one month pushing cattle up the trail,
many times on the exact original trail of 1867-81. It's reality TV that missed
its chance. This book features the photographs of many of those people, along
with many of their stories. It is a book of visual delight and stories they
delight in sharing.
Personal Comments:
Looking through this book I was thou roughly impressed with the way it was
during this specific time period. The tough exterior leads you to wonder how
they acted around each other, if perhaps they hid a softer version of their
selves inside. These people traveled so far to earn a better living, I kept
wondering what was at their core that kept them going so far.
Suggested Use in
Classroom: I would use this as an interest grabber. I have had several
students in my experience so far just as a student teacher, who really like to
learn about history. I feel as if I can get their attention with something as
exciting as this I can keep their attention throughout the lesson and they will
be excited to get involved with the activities I have prepared for them.
My Teaching Philosophy
My Teaching Philosophy is that any student can learn given
the right environment and proper teaching techniques. As an educator it is my
duty to teach students employable skills and help develop respectful taxpaying
citizens. Through the FFA students can develop premiere leadership and personal
growth. I want every student to have the opportunity to find their niche, and I
believe the FFA has a place for everyone, be it: metal fabrication, plant
science, animal husbandry, or wildlife. I believe strongly in finding ways to
get kids interested and engaged in your lesson. I aim to give my students the
proper tools to develop themselves to their full potential. This world needs
more honest hardworking citizens, and those are the kids I want to come out of
my program.
Monday, April 28, 2014
About Me: Rachel Lantrip
I am an Agriculture Education major at West Texas A&M University. I plan on getting my masters in Agriculture Education or International Agricultural Extension, this fall 2014. I believe that any student can learn employable skills to help shape their future. Some jobs do not require upper level classes to attain a high paying job. I aim to train students to learn and employ any skills I can instill.
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