Oklahoma Pork Council/Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Grants Note: For the protection of the children pictured, photos are placed at random and do not necessarily reflect corresponding projects or locations. 2008 Grant Recipients Clucking Chickens This Little Pig Bug's Eye View Beautiful Bovine Tortillas in a Bag Pumpkin Guts: Pumpkins by the Pound From Bolls to Bolts Name Funds used for: Sue Woodruff, Tulsa, $90 Unit on pumpkins and apples AITC activity: Pumpkin Pie in a Bag Carol Lloyd, Seminole, $300 "After completing the lessons about cotton and making a quilting pattern in the lesson "Piece by Piece," my class of six girls literally begged me to make a real quilt. So we are now in the process of making six small quilts. They do not want to do anything else except work on their quilts. They have found an interest in the craft of quilting which is very unusual in the technological world in which we live. This has also opened a line of communication between these girls and their grandmothers and other older ladies from the community that quilt." Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons AITC lessons used: Bee Dance Bee Smart, Bee Happy Bill Pickett, Bull Doggin' Cowboy What's Your Brand? Piece by Piece Pumpkins by the Pound Pumpkin Pie in a Bag (recipe) Agriculture Counts Mr. Goldman's Good Idea Agriculture is a Cycle Oklahoma Grown   Kim Cox, $300 "They said 'Eeewww' when I told them that 'Today we will be eating cow.' who knew that cows would taste so good? Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Vicki Boiles, Chickasha, $275 "Students were allowed to taste food that they would not otherwise experience, due to the fact that most of my students are poverty level." Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Valerie Smith, Stilwell, $300 "They learned about different fruits and vegetables that they weren't familiar with or had never tasted. They also learned how to weigh and select the best produce. The students were very interested in food preservation." Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Joyce Hembree, Tulsa, $300 "I had students who really weren't even sure what a pumpkin was and had never touched or tasted one. They learned that pumpkins grow in a field on vines and have different stages of development changing over time." Transportation for trip to pumpkin patch and materials for Ag in the Classroom pumpkin lessons Wendy Gibson, $300 Materials for Ag in the Classroom cooking projects Mistie Bunch, $230 Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom pumpkin unit Charity Guinn, $300 Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Janet Howard, Chickasha, $284 "I have observed that with my lessons, students are more interested in eating their vegetables in their plate lunches." Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Melinda Anderson, $230 Materials and books for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Janice Cockrum, Chickasha, $296.97 Materials and books for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Ronna Haney, Ada, $300 Ag-related books for children and young adults Charleen Carey, Sayre, $243.48 ". . . on our field trip day my 4-5-year-olds were actually giving breed names to the pigs they saw, looked for ears, knew the feeding process and really found out what pigs feel, sound and look like in person." Visit to a pig farm, books and materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons   Sherri Goeringer, Cordell, $230 Field trip to farm Joseph Macom, Ninnekah, $300 Food for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Marie Holba, Billings, $300 Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Heide Roden, Edmond, $300 Supplies for animal and garden projects Lindsey Hix, Shawnee, $250 Materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Susan Smith, Lawton, $300 Supplies for soil testing, tree identification and climate studies Sharon Petrik, Tulsa , $300 Ag-related books and materials for teaching Ag in the Classroom lessons Adrienne Ponder, Shawnee, $300 Display supplies for Oklahoma History Museum showing dinnertime throughout history Carrie Jacobs, Moore. $300 Field trip to Noble Research Foundation AITC lesson used: Agriculture: It Doesn't Just Happen Cheryl Hyde and Janie Price, Lexington, $300 Transportation to Braums, books and supples for teaching Ag in the Classroom dairy lessons Back to Grant Winners Back to Grants Page Back to Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.